Breaking The News

Break On Through (1x2)

Air date: Jun 22, 1997

In the sixties reporters enjoyed unprecedented power. In America a critical report on Vietnam by Walter Cronkite helped persuade President Johnson to retire. In Britain rock stars were taken as seriously as politicians and the BBC's future Director-General John Birt fixed an interview with Mick Jagger on 'World in Action'. Even the Soviet Union adopted a more liberal approach and covered Miss World forthe first time.