TAlllfHE BATTALION Wednesday, October 20, 1971 College Station, Texas Page 5 Brinkley backs government scrutiny of broadcast news am to sj WASHINGTON — Many KeclauMmplaints against broadcast news in in thA me from Americans unfamiliar p aiutes’fl|jth serious journalism who * eno « Net’Eiink television exists to enter- on fepleri Ifein and not inform, NBC com- kee Rivet, lontator David Brinkley said ’ b y toe!! iuesday. And he supported con- m Iressional scrutiny of broadcast ’ s flow at Jews. lake’s In I "There are never any com- i8t royingj |i a ints about bias and slanting ' d > a fistafy'hen the news is good,” Brink- ley told a Senate Judiciary sub committee investigating freedom of the press. “They appear only when the news is bad, and now adays it often is.” News broadcasters are on the same tube as a succession of “comedians and jugglers,” Brink- ley said, consequently, “when a face comes on that is not wearing a toothpaste smile and says there’s been another riot and more war casualties and taxes I are going up ... it looks even worse by comparison.” Brinkley said every time tele vision airs pictures of urban ar son and looting, for example, he gets hundreds of letters ask ing why the networks “glorify and dignify this kind of unspeak able conduct” by televising it? Brinkley said many in the au dience want to know about the bad news “or ought to know about it” while the complainers i i are mainly “listeners who have never until recent years been exposed to anything like serious journalism.” Brinkley told Chairman Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr., D-N.C., and Sen. Roman Hruska, R-Neb.,— only subcommittee members pres ent—that he does not think there is any intimidation of broadcast news by critics even though some witnesses have testified in the past that the government is in timidating television news pro grams. Brinkley said he supports the contention of Rep. William I,. Springer, R-Ill., that Congress should continually survey tele vision news and documentary pro grams and publicly criticize the networks the lawmakers think a subject has been presented un fairly. C. A. 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Vu Van Mau, head of the militant An Quant Buddhist faction in the Senate. Mau accused President Nixon of “disregarding” the Supreme Court in Saigon by sending con gratulations to the South Viet namese president via Gov. Ron ald Reagan of California before the court had officially valid ated the election results. The action came less than two weeks before the inauguration of President Nguyen Van Thieu, who claimed a 94.3 per cent vote of confidence when he won re-elec tion in an uncontested race. Many independent senators who had voted with the An Quang bloc on recent issues, including a pre-election demand that Thieu resign, voted against formation of the investigation committee. Advocates of the resolution had hoped for passage to lend “moral support” to the Supreme Court which heard petitions from oppo sition figures demanding invalid ation of the election. i r A court spokesman said a ! 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