TV & VIDEO - April 22, 1987

The Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda reported Tuesday that many Soviet viewers were shocked by the frankness of a recent series of broadcasts on life in their country by Phil Donahue. Pravda said it had received complaints from people who felt Soviet citizens had spoken out too openly in the U.S.-Soviet “telebridge” programs on Soviet domestic problems. The paper published one complaint, aimed toward a Soviet woman who told Donahue she had been waiting 10 years for an apartment: “Let her wait another hundred years, let her rot for talking about that to the Americans. . . . Everyone lives in good apartments here.”