Audio Interview with Fred Friendly

Fred Friendly, pioneer broadcast journalist, former president of CBS News and winner of ten Peabody Awards, authored The Good Guys, the Bad Guys, and the First Amendment: Free Speech vs. Fairness in Broadcasting and the Minnesota Rag books. He talks with Don Swaim in this 1981 interview about news reporting, sleazy language in the media, and First Amendment rights.

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For many years most of the best writers of the English language found their way to Don Swaim's CBS Radio studio in New York. Wired for Books is proud to webcast these interviews in RealAudio.