WMAQ Channel 5 - Editorial 5 - "Criticizing Walter" (1980)

Here's an editorial by Dillon Smith, Editorial Director of WMAQ Channel 5, in which he takes serious issue with WBBM Channel 2 anchor / editorialist Walter Jacobson's "Perspective" of August 7th 1980 (see here for his full comments) for seizing on Nancy Reagan's criticism of Democratic policies which she said were primarily responsible for most blacks being on welfare, and suggesting that she was actually saying most blacks were on welfare, which Dillon cites as taking her actual quotes out of context.

Mr. Smith emphasizes that with the right to criticize comes an obligation of responsibility, and that Jacobson's "inflammatory" insinuations have the potential to unfairly damage a Presidential candidate's chances of election. Towards the end of this editorial, Dillon advises:

"Because we too live in the critic's glass house, we are cautious about throwing stones."

Ending title card:

Editorial 5
Dillon Smith - Editorial Director
Monte Newman - General Manager

This is followed by an incomplete commercial for Smucker's Natural Peanut Butter (voiceover by Mason Adams) (the tape runs out before the commercial ends).

This aired on local Chicago TV the second week of August 1980.

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