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THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1979
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i Intemationi \ By ANDY WILLIAMS
-Tl.yi Battalion Staff
:t Gnome*,The media are so concerned with
blast wil |he^gaudy that they ignore the is-
e livestocl jues the public truly needs to
unlsrstand, an associate editor of
jr Texas Monthly magazine said here
Wednesday night.
In a speech sponsored by the Ag
ricultural Communicators of Tomor
row. John Bloom said that the
is, of the ijL'nited States probably has the
s Albuque Ivorst informed public in the world,
ed the cleat l “Show me one person in 10 — in
to release fad, show me one journalist in 10 —
e custodyi who can explain the meaning of
1 Managem‘farm parity. He said the public is
informed about everything, but
Jevada Opepgiy s about nothing,
ities leadiii| Ht blamed that ignorance on the
rway, witli medi.is lack of initiative.
porters generally don’t take the
trouble to do needed research, he
because it is easier to write
flashy articles to catch the public’s
:hwest oft ey§
lation PilolllHe gave as an example the atten-
^n given last fall’s firing of Peter
Bourne, President Carter’s adviser
on drug abuse.
bile that story was dominating
the national consciousness, he said,
Iran was “moving silently toward
any headd revo ' ution — silently because no
one was paying attention to the
;anup willIpolitical activity there,
ctions ontb
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ctions on
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ton experii COLLEGE STATION — Critics
1,200 feetl [) f ex P ens i ve high school athletic
Dec. 10 ppQgnuns claim the extracurricular
/ the form s P rov i^ e httle benefit to the
sion to dele P vera 8 e stu d en t and the large
asible to: Hp ets — particularly that of foot-
esulting mol Mj ~ cou ld be more wisely spent
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Battalion photo by Colin Crombie
John Bloom, associate editor of Texas Monthly, spoke about
his magazine and various aspects of journalism Wednesday
night to a crowd of about 35 in the Memorial Student Center.
Other issues that were generally
ignored then were a price increase
by the Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries and the grow
ing poverty of the farmer, which led
to the tractorcades to Washington.
He said this laziness in research
began in the 1960s, when “the bat
tle lines were clear-cut and the
symbols were large.” This was per
fect for television coverage, he said,
which was emerging in that decade
— to be most effective, it needed
events that could be shown on film.
But reporters can no longer be
just eye-witnesses, he said. “There
etics may benefit the student
disadvantaged high school students
are more likely to attend college and
get a better job if they participate in
high school athletics. And when
secondary schools cut their athletic
budgets, Picou said, they’re getting
rid of something that enhances am
bition and gives support to lower-
class blacks, females and rural
youth.
“Participation in interscholastic
athletics seems to be beneficial for
the development of attitudes that
promote achievement in education,
occupation and eventually income,”
Picou said.
“The high school athlete has the
experience of operating under situa-
S ? 1U , tions where they have to perform.
.0 ICG cllTC cl These past experiences enhance
in inue in H their achievement behavior later in
,rn S K|^ BUSTY MCDONALD
■ Battalion Reporter
The Texas A&M University
ts sampli p ress w hich was burned out of the
licipalv ;ol(£ Board of Directors house on
moving ar p e 5 27, will receive additional
wonting space in the next couple of
week:
But a Texas A&M sociologist dis-
rding to Dr. Steven Picou,
M Press
water all
tation.
theraWI Three mobile home-type trailers,
will be a w jth a total 2,160 square feet of
1 backgro» ; l rea are (. 0 T, e move( l onto the easti
end of the lot on the corner of As-
bury and Hogg streets. This is the
same lot where the Board of Direc-1
tors house is located.
Press Director Lloyd Lyman said, I
jfliis is the best possible temporary
solution for us. It will give us space [
orimr offices.”
, The project has been awarded to |
l^ign Space International of Hous-
Iton. It will cost about $25,000, said I
herald D. Scott, manager of engi-
ents neering design and energy in the|
would'- 'department of physical plant.
^The press is now operating out of I
fromab* (be shipping warehouse, also lo-[
>th torna®) ated on the lot.
IjWe will continue to use the old I
had some khippjng r0 om for the press,” said
tornadotf ,,, “Moving the new buildings
re youb onto this lot is good because it will
givfe us almost the same location as
s at the Pj jefori we can use the same phone
unty offi f! lumbers and we ll still be close to
wouldntSt the press in the shipping)
[ would be 15 warehouse.”
, The Texas A&M University Board |
,p to 45. ‘ of Regents has appointed a commit-
re than 6P tee to decide what to do with the |
twisters" olgiaged Board of Directors house,
mi no decisions have been made,
fficials to r “
Harter to
life.”
The sociologist based his assump
tions on a survey of 3,248 Deep
South high school seniors. He also
found:
—Participation in athletics tends
to reinforce certain values for white
males. According to Picou, white
athletes generally lean toward col
lege anyway and athletic participa
tion puts them in contact with an
achievement-oriented peer group.
—Black male athletes tend to
have higher levels of educational
ambition than black non-athletes.
— For female athletes, achieve
ment is more important than the
sport itself. According to Picou, the
girl who makes an all-district, all
region or all-state team is more
likely to go on to college than a
non-athlete woman.
—Rural athletes who participate
in high school athletic programs also
have higher levels of educational as
piration than similar urban kids.
“Athletics do have positive effects
on the development of educational
ambition,” Picou said. “We know
educational ambition leads to educa
tional achievement which in turn
leads to better jobs and higher in
comes later on in life.
“And it’s pretty clear from my re
search that the athletic participant
in high school actually receives
traits that promote education, bet
ter occupations and more income
over the long haul than non
athletes,” he said in defending high
school athletic programs.
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is no way to see an energy crisis.”
And he said that journalists must
become knowledgeable about the
subjects on which they are writing.
“Perhaps it is too much to expect
for reporters to become experts in
so many disparate fields,” Bloom
said. “Who has time for all this
study, especially when everyone is
happy without it?”
He said the reader is content to
believe, for instance, that oil com
panies and greedy Arabs are behind
the oil shortage.
“These are symbols, like those of
the sixties.”
But, he suggested, maybe this
simplistic approach is the main rea
son the credibility of the media is at
an all-time low.
Bloom said journalists must be
come more involved with their
stories.
“We need less accounting and
more passion,” he said. “What we
call objectivity often is just another
way of saying, ‘We don’t want to be
involved.”
The idea that a reporter must be
neutral in his stories is a new one,
he said, adding that Thomas Paine
and Benjamin Franklin had not be
come famous journalists by being
objective.
“Texas Monthly was founded
more than six years ago for many of
the reasons I’ve outlined here to
night,” he said.
He said its reporters write about
things they know.
“They are involved in what they
write about, both intellectually and
emotionally.”
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