"I signed many petitions that were for unfashionable causes and never retracted." "I was blacklisted because I took certain positions on things and never retracted," Terkel once said in an interview about those times. Also, at that time, McCarthyism was a potent force, and Terkel was outspoken politically, with a highly liberal tone. Terkel later complained that commercialization of television forced his show, and the others in the "Chicago school," from the air. He was interested in what he was talking about and whom he was talking to.īut his TV career did not last. Terkel, arms waving, words exploding in bursts, leaning close to his companions, didn't merely conduct interviews. It was on "Studs' Place," which was set in a tavern, that large numbers of people discovered what Terkel did best - talk and listen. When television emerged as a force in the American home in the early 1950s, Terkel created and hosted "Studs' Place," one of the major jewels in the legendary "Chicago school" of television that also spawned Dave Garroway and Kukla, Fran and Ollie.
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