Bernie’s Time Machine: TV's Big Mouths
Covering Trash-TV stars at the NATPE conference.
“If they gave out Nobel Prizes for big mouths, Morton Downey would be doing his show from Stockholm.”
In 1989 for CBS News’s 48 Hours, I traveled to the NATPE convention in Houston, Texas, where popular syndicated TV shows were marketed to local stations.
In my first of three segments at the convention, I talked to two popular daytime Trash TV stars of the era: Morton Downey Jr. and Geraldo Rivera — both of whom insisted they were giving Americans what they really wanted.
(Look for part two next week).
