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The Cleveland News last week ran a front-page box score of radio & TV criminality. Like alarmed citizens across the country, the News sternly called on sponsors to give "greater attention to the emotional effect of their programs on youngsters."

For once, radio & TV men refused to take it lying down. Manager James Hanrahan of television station WEWS-TV retorted: "We haven't a single episode as gory as Dick Tracy in the Cleveland News." Charles Day, news director of radio station WGAR, joined in by pointing to the full newspaper coverage of a recent paternity case. Day said, virtuously, that "no Cleveland station touched that kind of material, for our standards of news coverage frowns on it. Before self-chosen newspaper critics start cleaning house elsewhere, let them look into their own pages."

At week's end, even the News's own columnist, Ed McAuley, was doing some soul-searching. "Newspapers live their shoddiest hours in the time of such court trials as the [recent] paternity case . . .

Newspapers frankly appeal to the lowest expressions of human curiosity--the desire to know what goes on in other people's bedrooms ... Its effect on others--' especially the young--may be incalculably harmful."

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