Friday, November 1, 1985/The Battalion/Page 3 State and Local on Stone’s reporting style $ still down-home, folksy n n ey usualli with then jonsibilitj mbers o( eir leadet weapon! out to re e theii By TOM TAGLIABUE Reporter Run Stone has always had that own-home news sivle and he hasn’t hanged. Stone, 49, who was in College Sta- lon Thursday promoting his new iook “ The Book of Texas Days,” has een a fixture in homes at 5 pan. rid 10 pan. for as long as most peo ple can remember as news anchor on PRC-TV. Stone treated every autogiaph- eeker like a neighbor he had not een in a while or a new f riend he lad just made. One fan commented on Stone’s [own-home style, something Stone dd just came naturally. "I really have a folksy approach to he news, because I ref use to let all he bad things that are happening in he world diminish my feelings for ny fellow man,” Stone said. "I think ere still pretty good folks and hy md large do some pretty good hings — and sure some things go rong, but 1 happen to he in a bnsi- less where you mostly report the ■hings that are going wrong,' Even when people doubted Stone’s sincerity, he never changed he style. “Tne first time 1 said, ‘Good night teighbors,' on the air was because Houston was a small town then — md 1 really did think of them as teighbors,” Stone said. “I had a person come up to me a ew years ago saying they thought hat was just an asinine thing to say, >ut 1 really didn’t think so. “It’sjust mv wav of saying that all )f us are in this thing together and I m one of you and you’re one of me md let’s do our best to get along — md that's kind of the way I ap proach things.” Stone, who began Ins journalism areer in Ada. Okla. at a radio sta- ion owned bv his wife’s brother, said teis thankful for the vok e (iod gave tint and for the ability to speak. In Oklahoma, he met some olci-line t a lk) and television broadcasters who aught him to speak correctly, to Photo by JON KARP Ron Stone signs “The Book of Texas Days.” think and to w rite stories correctly. One of those old-liners was Dan Rather, who brought Stone from Tulsa to CBS’ Houston affiliate, KHOU-TV, in 1961. Rather was helpful in teaching Stone the proper style and good reporting techniques, Stone said. Stone, who later joined Kl’RC, an NBC affiliate, still listens to tapes of his broadcasts while driving (tome. He works many hours on his style to assure that it is exemplary. Stone agrees with the late E.B. White w hen it comes to writing stvle. “Good writing is a creativity of the mind,” Stone said. “It’s not where you put the periods and the punc tuation marks, it’s a sum total of what you know and what you com municate — and writing is commu nicating. One of the exciting things for Stone, besides covering the latest breaking stories, is seeing young journalists develop into top news re porters. One of the best-known young reporters Stone said he’s seen is Jessica Savich, now with NBC News. Even though the television indus try has changed, the responsibilities the young reporter has still are the same. “I think you have to be honest,” Stone said. “You have to understand that most of the people out there don’t really understand what the sto ries are.” Although the call to network tele vision has come from his former col league Dan Rather, Stone has said “no” to the move. “It (network television) is just not what I want to do,” Stone said. “I’m famous enough. Lord help, I can still go into Wendy’s and get a ham burger. Rather can’t. 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