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Poll: Reaction to media mixed
Americans have reservations about terrorism coverage
WASHINGTON (AP) — Many
Americans have reservations about
how the news media report terrorist
incidents, but people also think news
organizations do a good job of cover
ing events like airplane hijackings,
said a survey released Thursday.
These mixed feelings toward .the
news media were brought out in a
Gallup Organization poll commis
sioned by the Times Mirror, a Los
Angeles-based media organization.
“Americans are of two minds
about press-related issues,” Gallup
President Andrew Kohut said.
“They give the news media high
marks on overall performance, but
sharply lower grades on specific
press practices.”
On specific stories, 84 percent of
the respondents said the media did a
good job covering the January ex
plosion of the space shuttle Chal
lenger; 80 percent felt that way
about the TWA flight 847 hostage
crisis in Beirut; 80 percent approved
of coverage of the Achille Lauro hi
jacking in the Mediterrean; 79 per
cent thought the Chernobyl nuclear
disaster was handled well, and 71
percent approved the reporting of
the Pan American World Airways hi
jacking in Pakistan this month.
Still, many Americans seem dis
turbed by the role the media plays in
terrorist incidents, the poll said.
For example. 51 percent of Amer
icans said the news media give ter
rorist incidents too much attention,
and 40 percent said coverage is
about right.
The findings were based on tele
phone interviews with 1,504 people
in July. Gallup said there is an error
rate of 3 percent.
In a separate quiz, 776 people
were interviewed in September
about the case of Nicholas Daniloff,
the U.S. News 8c World Report Mos
cow correspondent who has been ar
rested and charged with spying in
the Soviet Union. That survey had
an error rate of 4 percent.
The poll showed 73 percent of
Americans have followed the Dani
loff case closely. Twenty-four per
cent thought there was no chance
that Daniloff was a spy; 34 percent
said “only a very small chance,” 22
percent, “somewhat of a chance,”
and 10 percent, “a good chance.”
The remainder did not answer the
question.
Kohut speculated that the poll re
flected the public’s skepticism to
ward the U.S. government and the
news media.
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someone is working to update the
file.
And a tutorial program, which
should be operating within a
month, will allow students to find a
tutor for any class, he says.
“We’ll have a list, hopefully on
computer — a tutorial catalog, if
you will,” he says. “It’s like a Sears-
Roebuck catalog for tutors.”
Another idea being developed is
the formation of a committee, com
posed of students or a combination
of students and faculty members, to
oversee daily happenings at the
University Police Department.
. “Lots of stuff happens at the
UPD and sometimes, nobody really
knows what’s going on,” he says.
“There’s lots of revenue being gen
erated through lots of parking tick
ets being given out, and I believe a
question on most students’ minds is:
‘Where’s that money going?’ ”
Sims also wants to have Student
Government appear a unified,
happy organization, he says.
To do that he must appear
happy and motivated in his job,
Sims says.
“I can tell that if I start having a
bad day, it seems to affect the gen
eral attitude of the office up here,”
he says. “People look in that door to
see what’s happening from here.
“And people that are enjoying
their work are going to want to
come up here and want to work and
produce things that help everybo
dy.”
Although Sims sees himself as a
motivational force behind Student
Government, he says he doesn’t try
to shoulder all of its burdens.
“This is the first environment
I’ve found myself in that I can’t run
the whole thing by myself,” he says.
“The people up here (in Student
Government) are outstanding indi
viduals. They really do everything
that happens here.”
He tells people what shape he
wants a project to take and lets
them handle the job, he says.
“I don’t care how it gets done,
just so it’s done effectively, effi
ciently and in somewhat of a pro
fessional manner,” he says.
He stresses the word “some
what.”
“I think too many times, people
get too wrapped up in the whole
concept of professionalism,” Sims
says. “They get to the point of being
stuffy. And I can’t stand stuffiness.”
Sims says he enjoys his job pri
marily because it gives him a chance
to make a difference at A&M and to
work with good people, but he ad
mits it has professional benefits as
well.
“It looks damn good on a re
sume, and that’s no joke,” he says.
Those contacts may prove useful
in the future, since Sims says he
plans to make politics his career.
“Certainly, I’d like to end up in
Washington someday, somehow.”
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