Great episode and always looks at ethics of journalism. This show in first run made me want to be a reporter. I did freelance work including some media writing for the Toledo Blade. This show was the spark.
I own and operate eight monthly publications in a large city. The show is both entertaining and informative. The actors are tops. They just don't make really good shows like that anymore.
Nice transition at 34:53 from Bill Schallert's tirade to the staff all reading that magazine, complete with that great music cue :). Dang, this show was good!
On the DVD, there's a commercial break in between those two scenes. Also, this version cuts off a second or two of each. The guy reading the magazine before Rossi is gone.
I like the way Lou corrected that young reporter to only report the facts. Sometimes I question the way the news is reported today. Is journalism a means to keep the reader informed, or is it merely a platform for the journalist to perform a written soliloquy?
Halfway through the episode I made the connection to Betty Ford. During the Ford presidency reporters knew about her problem but kept quiet because she was just the First Lady. Later, she went public and received tons of support. Gerald Ford never faced any consequences for his wife's alcoholism. In this story the wife seems to be tainted by her husband's failings. Mrs Pynchon's last words are quite correct.
Indeed. To her credit, Betty Ford brought considerable attention to the issue of alcoholism. As for Jerry Ford, you're absolutely right: He did not receive any criticism for his wife's problem. Nor should he have. My criticisms of him have been on strictly political and constitutional matters, particularly his pardon of Dick Nixon, which allowed the latter to face no consequences, either in the Congress or in the judicial system, for his leading role in Watergate. It is my considered belief that any criticism of Jerry Ford should be limited to these matters. For anyone in public service, that's plenty on which to be criticized.
@@thomash.schwed3662 Dick Nixon faced no consequences? His party rightly abandoned him and he is still the only the president to resign. Did you see the last press conference he gave? The pain was pretty evident.
@@Daniel-sh3os When was the first, last or any time in between that I denied the fact that Dick Nixon resigned? Nor did I deny the pain he experienced-pain, which, in his case, he caused himself. Nixon resigned because he realized that he was about to be impeached in the House and would, without question, subsequently, be convicted in the Senate, resulting in his removal from the Oval Office. Of course, impeachment and conviction would mean that the American people would no longer see him as a "winner"; and that was the only way he ever wanted to be seen. However, impeachment and conviction were, in the congressional sense, the consequences prescribed by the Federal Constitution. In resigning, Nixon sought to preempt the Federal Constitution. Even so, it took the even more egregious action by Jerry Ford in issuing the pardon to remove all of the legal and constitutional consequences from Dick Nixon. In so doing, Ford made himself the final accessory to the Nixon scandal. If you or I had orchestrated a scandal of such magnitude as that perpetrated by Dick Nixon, we have been both impeached in the House and convicted in the Senate, and we would still be behind Federal bars-and, rightly so-even if you or I were in the executive department. Make no mistake of that! No, Dick Nixon never did face any consequences within the law and the Federal Constitution. On the contrary, his resignation-and his subsequent acceptance of the pardon-amounted to a shirking and flouting of the prescribed consequences.
3:05 Rossi forgotten the number one rule of journalism... report the news, don't become the news. There was at least several photographers there that could, if not did, take pictures of him digging dirt. Just like they went from typewriters to WPM (Word Processor Machines) with a Intranet (Intranet, with a "A", for those who are not aware, is a network similar to the Internet but within the confines of a building or company and not the outside world), if we was to go from our modern computers with Internet access to a WPM... we would be equally as dumbfounded with all those codes (modern day passwords) Really that guy who got fired really deserved it. I don't know much about journalism but I do know that, at least in the old days, you keep your opinions to yourself. That is the job for the supermarket tabloids. When you run a newspaper, you go by the Mandella Effect of what Joe Friday never said in Dragnet "Just the facts". The water guy in the office was Rizzo from M*A*S*H. He played in a recent episode of Lou Grant I saw as well so he played at least two roles in this series. 37:30 Number one rule about accusations... never admit to a crime the boss or victim doesn't know about yet.
Great episode and always looks at ethics of journalism. This show in first run made me want to be a reporter. I did freelance work including some media writing for the Toledo Blade. This show was the spark.
Lou grant i just love it. You have full EPISODES so i love it immediatly subscribed!!!!! :D
I own and operate eight monthly publications in a large city. The show is both entertaining and informative. The actors are tops. They just don't make really good shows like that anymore.
Janet Busener - still in business?
It being an MTM production might have had a bit to do with the Quality of the Show
@@pjimmbojimmbo1990 It was also written before any major dumbing down occurred.
we do not get beautiful tv like this now
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Nice transition at 34:53 from Bill Schallert's tirade to the staff all reading that magazine, complete with that great music cue :). Dang, this show was good!
~It's known as the arc, of a story! Keen eye...
On the DVD, there's a commercial break in between those two scenes. Also, this version cuts off a second or two of each. The guy reading the magazine before Rossi is gone.
I don't think they ever mentioned any of the Mary Tyler Moore characters in the show ever
Water man is G.W. Bailey, who played Sgt. Rizzo in "M*A*S*H" and also appears on "The Closer" and "Major Crimes."
And don't forget the cop in Police Academy and a security person in Short Circuit.
I have a feeling that the waterman role was written specifically for G. W. He was perfect.
@@robertcringle4865 I agree. The way he delivered his lines here, I could easily hear Luther Rizzo.
He also played a cook who nominally owned a certain piece of real estate in the episode "Fire".
I like the way Lou corrected that young reporter to only report the facts.
Sometimes I question the way the news is reported today. Is journalism a means to keep the reader informed, or is it merely a platform for the journalist to perform a written soliloquy?
So happy to see more LG episodes. Thanks :))
I took Rapid Transit in Los Angeles for decades, so that little exchange was telling.
Halfway through the episode I made the connection to Betty Ford. During the Ford presidency reporters knew about her problem but kept quiet because she was just the First Lady. Later, she went public and received tons of support. Gerald Ford never faced any consequences for his wife's alcoholism. In this story the wife seems to be tainted by her husband's failings. Mrs Pynchon's last words are quite correct.
Indeed. To her credit, Betty Ford brought considerable attention to the issue of alcoholism. As for Jerry Ford, you're absolutely right: He did not receive any criticism for his wife's problem. Nor should he have. My criticisms of him have been on strictly political and constitutional matters, particularly his pardon of Dick Nixon, which allowed the latter to face no consequences, either in the Congress or in the judicial system, for his leading role in Watergate. It is my considered belief that any criticism of Jerry Ford should be limited to these matters. For anyone in public service, that's plenty on which to be criticized.
@@thomash.schwed3662 Dick Nixon faced no consequences? His party rightly abandoned him and he is still the only the president to resign. Did you see the last press conference he gave? The pain was pretty evident.
@@Daniel-sh3os When was the first, last or any time in between that I denied the fact that Dick Nixon resigned? Nor did I deny the pain he experienced-pain, which, in his case, he caused himself.
Nixon resigned because he realized that he was about to be impeached in the House and would, without question, subsequently, be convicted in the Senate, resulting in his removal from the Oval Office. Of course, impeachment and conviction would mean that the American people would no longer see him as a "winner"; and that was the only way he ever wanted to be seen. However, impeachment and conviction were, in the congressional sense, the consequences prescribed by the Federal Constitution. In resigning, Nixon sought to preempt the Federal Constitution.
Even so, it took the even more egregious action by Jerry Ford in issuing the pardon to remove all of the legal and constitutional consequences from Dick Nixon. In so doing, Ford made himself the final accessory to the Nixon scandal.
If you or I had orchestrated a scandal of such magnitude as that perpetrated by Dick Nixon, we have been both impeached in the House and convicted in the Senate, and we would still be behind Federal bars-and, rightly so-even if you or I were in the executive department. Make no mistake of that! No, Dick Nixon never did face any consequences within the law and the Federal Constitution. On the contrary, his resignation-and his subsequent acceptance of the pardon-amounted to a shirking and flouting of the prescribed consequences.
If she was pumping them for information without indicating that it was for an article she could be held libel along with the magazine.
Rossi is left handed🤟That explains much 🙂!
I used to be an editor and if I had been in Lou's shoes and a cut had to be made, the young know-it-all reporter would have been axed by me, too.
Lou & Charlie always knew they were in trouble when Mrs P took off her glasses, like 2 schoolboys in front of the Headmistress.
He should have told the story about throwing ted down the stairs!
Actually Lou threw Ted through a door and into a cigarette machine. But I agree with your point. Good story.
What is with Rossi and the orange soda withe the child straw This goes to show Immaturity
His father was an alcoholic. He does drink alcohol, but very little. Adults use straws!!!
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This may be William Schallert’s finest performance.
3:05 Rossi forgotten the number one rule of journalism... report the news, don't become the news. There was at least several photographers there that could, if not did, take pictures of him digging dirt. Just like they went from typewriters to WPM (Word Processor Machines) with a Intranet (Intranet, with a "A", for those who are not aware, is a network similar to the Internet but within the confines of a building or company and not the outside world), if we was to go from our modern computers with Internet access to a WPM... we would be equally as dumbfounded with all those codes (modern day passwords) Really that guy who got fired really deserved it. I don't know much about journalism but I do know that, at least in the old days, you keep your opinions to yourself. That is the job for the supermarket tabloids. When you run a newspaper, you go by the Mandella Effect of what Joe Friday never said in Dragnet "Just the facts". The water guy in the office was Rizzo from M*A*S*H. He played in a recent episode of Lou Grant I saw as well so he played at least two roles in this series. 37:30 Number one rule about accusations... never admit to a crime the boss or victim doesn't know about yet.
While I liked the show, I was never a fan of the Newspaper's owner. Her bias would have supported Fascism
I found it very releastic. Fascists DO run the news media!
Huh, so even in the 70s they had plastic water cooler bottles. Figured they were glass.
si quelqu'un a cette serie en français ce serait sympa
That GW Bailey scene was really odd.
If the show is set in LA why does Benita speak with a mid Atlantic accent
Really, people move around.
cool