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Mar. 21, 1994: Died:Lawrence Spivak
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
Mar. 21, 1994 Hard Times For Hillary
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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MILESTONES, Page 26
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<p> DIED. LAWRENCE SPIVAK, 93, pioneering TV interviewer; in Washington.
The aggressive grilling of public officials now considered the
norm for video journalism can be traced to Meet the Press, a
no-holds-barred interview program introduced on radio, then
transferred to television in the late '40s, where it remains
the paradigm of Sunday-morning news shows. The Brooklyn-born
Spivak originally intended Meet the Press as a promotion for
his American Mercury magazine, but its refreshing confrontations
with the powerful soon became phenomena unto themselves. In
the '50s Meet the Press featured Whitaker Chambers insisting
that Alger Hiss was a Soviet spy, Thomas Dewey's 1950 revelation
that he would not be running for the presidency and a Pentagon
general's admission that the Soviets had developed a nuclear
bomb. Spivak's tenacious questioning made him an object of admiration
and fear among politicians until his retirement in 1975, by
which time Meet the Press had long since been paid the ultimate
compliment--a flood of imitators.
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