Book Reviews: Book Review of Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control, by Fred W. Friendly -- Blue Rectangle

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Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control

Fred W. Friendly

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Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control Fred W. Friendly "I wanted to read Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control because my wife and I stayed at a small bed and breakfast in Bastrop, Texas; and it had a nice library of old books, and so they leant it out to us. It describes a unique time in the history of television and really describes the tipping point where television, in may people's opinions, went wrong. Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control is about his -- it's a memoir about his time from the early days of working with Ed Murrow all the way to his tenure as the president of the CBS News Division in the mid-1960's. The most interesting time period was the 1950's with the CBS Reports. I think that it certainly, there was a drifting period when Ed Murrow had so much friction with the network and left CBS Reports, and then Fred Friendly continued on with it producing it. The important points kind of get lost in part of the way through, like the McCarthy hearings, the Vietnam hearings not being televised by the networks due to revenues being lost because they have to run their reruns of I Love Lucy and stuff. I would give Fred Friendly's Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control three stars out of five. I think it describes some very important events."