Reading Marlene Sanders's memoirs this evening, Waiting for Prime Time: The Women of Television News (U. Illinois Press 1988), in collaboration with journalism professor Marcia Rock...she was a relatively pioneering newswoman in radio and tv largely for Westinghouse and CBS (among others) well before those two companies were cobbled together by corporate ownership they both dwarfed in the '50s-'90s. Circuitous route to that, as I was put onto it by a Paul Di Filippo capsule review in the new F&SF of occasional tv newsperson Marya Mannes's novel They (1968), somewhat comic-inferno satirical sf about intergenerational tumult. By '68, Mannes not only could see it in the streets but was feeling it, no doubt, a bit personally. They sounds promising or self-indulgent, or a bit of both. Sanders had produced a short-run interview series conducted by Mannes in 1959 for Metromedia station WNEW-TV in NYC (the former Dumont Network anchor station).
Christopher Iacono's review of They.
...I'll be damned...I knew this sounded familiar. I had a copy of the rather drab-package paperback from Curtis Books, three decades+ back...and it was water-damaged by an apartment roof/ceiling leak before I got around to reading it.
Andrew Pineo's review of They.
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