TAlllfHE BATTALION
Wednesday, October 20, 1971
College Station, Texas
Page 5
Brinkley backs government scrutiny of broadcast news
am to sj WASHINGTON <dP> — 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. McKnight, editor of The
Charlotte N.C., Observer and
president of the American So
ciety of Newspaper Editors, told
the panel he is deeply concerned
about recent developments he said
could threaten freedom of the
press and, consequently, the pub
lic’s opportunity to get informa
tion.
McKnight cited the Supreme
Court’s recent split decision al
lowing “The New York Times”
and other papers to publish the
so-called Pentagon Papers about
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the origins of the Vietnam war.
He said he was appalled at the
government’s attempt to restrain
the newspapers from printing the
reports and distui-bed that some
Supreme Court justices’ decisions
lifting the injunctions were not
more absolute in defending the
newspapers.
McKnight also said the ASNE
believes newsmen have a consti
tutional right to refuse to disclose
their news sources. He said gov
ernment subpoenas of newsmen
and their unused notes and film
clips have a chilling effect on
news organizations.
S. Vietnam Senate
not to investigate
election charges
SAIGON (A*)—South Vietnam’s
Senate rejected by a vote of 19-
18 today an opposition move to
investigate charges that the Oct.
3 presidential election was rig
ged.
The proposal to form a special
investigating committee was in
troduced by Sen. 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 ! ''de
cision on the petitions would be
rendered Wednesday “at the ear
liest.” The court has until Oct. 26
to make a decision.
In another development, the
government confiscated editions
of 14 Saigon newspapers for ar
ticles “like to sow confusion
among the masses.” Although the
government is never specific
about reasons for such confisca
tions, several editors said they
were aimed at articles about re
cent fire bombings of U.S. and
South Vietnamese government
posts by militant youths.
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