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Article: On the Firing Line: The Public Life of Our Public Figures.
- Article from:
- National Review
- Article date:
- June 2, 1989
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1989 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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IT IS NO SECRET that bound collections of transcripts even of superior television shows-whether 60 Minutes, Walter Lippmann's TV conversations, or See It Now-just don't work. The special chemistry of broadcast dialogue simply does not transfer to the printed page. William F. Buckley Jr.'s On the Firing Line-the record of 22 years of Firing Line shows-does succeed, however, because this contentious, often errant knight has taken the time to provide context. Whether it be the awesome moment when guest Abba Eban is handed a communique stating that Israel's "fanatical tormentor" (Gamal Abdel Nasser) had suddenly died, or when Kenya's foreign minister, Njeroge Mungai, just ...
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...Can you remember a time before Firing Line? If so, then you can remember ... question, When is Buckley not onstage? On Firing Line, he has hosted, prodded, jousted ... could have learned about the world from Firing Line; and, of course, many of us did ...
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