Later Career
After he left CBS, Friendly worked at the Ford Foundation and also created the Media and Society Friendly Seminars, which were renamed the Fred Friendly Seminars after his death. According to Ralph Engelman, in Origins of Public Access Cable Television, 1966–1972, it was during this time that Public-access television cable TV channels in New York was conceived by Fred Friendly. It occurred during 1968 when he was assigned chairman of Mayor John Lindsay's Advisory Task Force on CATV and Telecommunications, and he wrote a report recommending that cable companies set aside two channels that the public could lease for a minor fee.
Later, he held the Edward R. Murrow Professor of Broadcast Journalism post at Columbia University. He then played a major role in establishing PBS. The broadcast newsroom at Columbia University's School of Journalism is named for Friendly, as is a professorship at the school.
He was the author of several books, including The Good Guys, The Bad Guys, And The First Amendment (an account of a number of First Amendment court cases and particularly of the "Fairness doctrine"), Minnesota Rag (A history of Near v. Minnesota), The Constitution: That Delicate Balance, The Present-Minded Professor, and Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control (about his sixteen years at CBS).
In 1988, Friendly produced and hosted a ten-part series on PBS, Ethics in America, on which a panel of leading thinkers debated and discussed modern ethical issues.
In 1990, Friendly received a George Polk Award honoring his career.
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