Paley might have been unhappy partly because of the Fairness Doctrine, which required networks to air opposing viewpoints, something with little appeal to sponsors.
"It's very, very tricky," said Anne Bogart, the artistic director of the SITI company in New York and, as co-developer of another performance-training technique, called Viewpoints, something of an expert.
And while Ron Paul has been getting a lot of attention in the online world for his stance on the Iraq war (he's against it) and for other equally Libertarian viewpoints, something many people (especially on the left) haven't noticed is that Paul has unshakable bedrock-values anti-abortion views.
I think when we look back and can quantify it, we'll see it's pretty valuable to tell your network you are validating a viewpoint on something".
Or choose characters that have differing viewpoints about something.
"Beautiful" was written for the daughters of the band members, expressing the Christian viewpoint that Jesus saw something beautiful, something worth dying for, in everyone.
But though he has been associated in the public mind with Republican viewpoints, he's something of an individualist.
PATRICK HOSFIELD, Eugene, Ore., posted on nytimes.com Critics moan about how e-books and self-publishing are "dumbing down" writing, yet the critics are missing something: their viewpoint simply doesn't match what most readers look for in a book.
The machinations of the Ibrox boardroom and the web of intrigue which has been weaved around the club have, from this correspondent's viewpoint, been embraced with something approaching apathy by huge swathes of the support.
Because you can easily slip into an alternate viewpoint, one that goes something like this: Turks and Armenians lived in peace until Czarist Russia began to move southward down the Caucasus, purging Muslims downward into Turkish territory throughout the 19th century.
