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Thursday, March 23,1989
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Instructors: Tabloid TV
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Talk shows often lack responsibility, credibilitj
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You can watch their shows on any
given day and see them explore sub
jects such as strippers, transvestites
in today’s job market and women
with large breasts.
These hosts include Oprah Winf
rey, Phil Donahue, Geraldo Rivera
and Morton Downey Jr. Their shows
are described as a new type of jour
nalism, tmt some officials from the
Texas A&M journalism department
view them as nothing more than po
tential threats to responsible journa
lism.
The debate over the increasing
popularity of these types of tabloid
television shows has heated up over
recent years, and journalism officials
are wondering whether these shows
are going to be a permanent fixture
on American television.
Dr. Edward Smith, associate pro
fessor of journalism, said these
shows have large audiences because
the average viewer wants to see these
types of topics.
“I think they’re popular for the
same reason print tabloid journalism
is so popular,” Smith said. “People
enjoy the weird and the peculiar.
Most of us lead fairly mundane lives
and like to know about all those
things. It’s just a continuation of
‘Ripley’s Believe It Or Not.”’
Bob Rogers, journalism depart
ment head, likened the shows’ suc
cess to that of soap operas, saying
they are sensational, titillating and
have a false sophistication about
them. He said people naturally are
attracted to shows like these.
Donald C. Johnson, associate pro
fessor of journalism and coordinator
of student publications, said al
though he considers these programs
a form of journalism, they are not
necessarily credible.
“There’s no question these shows
are journalism, but there’s a differ
ence between journalism and re
sponsible journalism,” Johnson said.
“I don’t consider most of them to be
responsible because their goals are
not to convey truth to the American
public.”
Rogers said he particularly is of
fended by Rivera’s show because
Geraldo pretends to hold journalis
tic integrity, but actually has none.
Dallas jury
clears officer
of shooting
DALLAS (AP) — An Arlington
police officer has been cleared by a
Dallas County grand jury investigat
ing his third fatal shooting in six
months, a forgery suspect’s death.
Grand jurors on Tuesday de
clined to indict Brian Larrell in the
Leb. 1 shooting death of Michael
Wayne Robinson, 21.
Larrell and his partner, Detective
Ed Gordon, were confronted by
Robinson, who lunged at them with
a kitchen knife, officers said. Larrell
shot Robinson once in the chest.
Gordon and Larrell were attempt
ing to arrest Robinson on a forgery
charge.
Despite the grand jury action,
Larrell will no longer carry a badge
or firearm while on the Arlington
force, Police Chief David Kunkle
said Tuesday.
“Brian Larrell will be returned to
a job where he does not carry a fire
arm and does not exercise enforce
ment authority,” Kunkle said.
Larrell’s home telephone was un
listed and he did not immediately re
turn telephone calls to his office
Wednesday.
Gordon, Larrell and the Dallas of
ficers who investigated the shooting
testified at the grand jury hearing.
Tarrant County grand jurors
ruled Larrell’s use of deadly force
was justified in two previous cases.
But the shootings prompted his
transfer to a low-risk assignment in
the forgery unit where he was work
ing at the time he shot Robinson.
Larrell fatally shot two men in Au
gust. On Aug. 2, he killed Ray Soto
Jr., 32, of Arlington while Soto sat in
his pickup on an Arlington street, af
ter a bystander warned police that
Soto had a gun.
Three weeks later, Larrell shot
and killed Martin Williams, a 33-
year-old Lort Worth man who had a
history of mental illness, as Farrell
and Williams wrestled along Inter
state 30.
Kunkle said Farrell will remain on
paid administrative leave until com
pletion of an internal affairs investi
gation, which could take another two
to four weeks.
The chief said the investigation
will determine whether Farrell acted
within the department’s deadly force
guidelines. If the investigation de
termines he violated procedure, he
could be disciplined or fired, the
chief said.
Farrell will be transferred perma
nently to non-enforcement duty if
he remains with the police depart
ment, Kunkle said.
“He’s an outrage to responsible
journalism,” Rogers said. “Even the
good people in our business have a
hard time achieving credibility, and
then we have to gain that credibility
in the face of people like Geraldo,
who think they are journalists but
really aren’t.”
Dr. Don Tomlinson, an assistant
professor of journalism, said Rive
ra’s show involves little journalism.
He is troubled by Rivera’s sensatio-
nalistic style.
“I think when you do (what Rivera
does), you’ve lost the journalism and
headed straight for entertainment,”
Tomlinson said. “His audience is the
same that reads the National En
quirer. They’re not interested in
learning anything. They’re not in
terested in the truth or even any
thing that approximates the truth.
What they’re interested in is a less
than civil kind of debate.”
Rogers said Rivera’s biggest fault
is trying to tag himself as a journal
ist, when all he is trying to accompl
ish is to obtain high ratings.
“Geraldo is so bad because he
doesn’t seem to have any respect for
the truth,” he said. “He’s simply out
to sensationalize. That’s obviously
bad journalism. ... It demeans jour
nalism.”
Rogers said because of these types
of programs, the modern American
press faces a challenge to distance it
self from other kinds of irresponsi
ble journalism.
“I think it’s important for us to be
more responsible than we’ve ever
been,” he said. “I think the legiti
mate press has to he responsible al
most to an exaggerated degree not
in order to make up for the phonie;
and the frauds that live on
of that circle.”
Johnson, who considers Rivera a
the worst of the television hosts,sale
these kinds of programs all hai(
evolved from the investigative slit
of GBS’s “60 Minutes,” which us«
the idea of informing the Americai
public of certain issues in society.
However, Johnson said newsp;
pers and networks have become it
creasingly conservative over the las
decade or so and tend not to
on that idea.
Smith said these programs resem
hie the early types of sensationalists
journalism. He doesn’t believe ikt
general public confuses these
with responsible journalism.
“1 don’t think people viewt;
TV and get it confused with tht
Houston Chronicle, the Austai
American Statesman or the IM
ington Post," he said. “1 think th
distance is so far in people’s
that it’s not going to be a thingthai
damages one or the other.”
These television shows should It
considered more entertainmem
than any form of journalism, Roger!
said.
“(Journalism) has too muchofai
impact on our lives for it to It
treated in cavalier and stupid ways
he said. “It’s too important for
be debased by the mere shock valat
entertainment of it.”
Smith doesn’t think there is mud:
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In Advance
Mosbacher to speak at annual Lincoln Dinner
By Kelly Brown
STAFF WRITER
U.S. Commerce Secretary Robert
Mosbacher will be the guest
speaker at the Brazos County’s
annual Lincoln Dinner. Tickets
will be available through Friday
for the March 28 event.
Brazos County Republican
Party Chairman Rodger Lewis
said tickets are $25 for the fund
raising dinner, which will be at
12:30 p.m. in the College Station
Hilton. Persons wanting to be on
the host committee may donate
$250.
During the 1988 presidential
campaign, Mosbacher, a Housto
nian, was President Bush’s chief
campaign fundraiser as the Na
tional Finance Chairman.
As secretary of commerce,
Mosbacher will be in a position to
affect Texas A&M financially as
many A&M projects, especially
those in the College of Geosci
ence, are funded by the Com
merce Department. Lewis said
the SeaGrant program estimates
its funding from the Commerce
Department as having at leasts
$60 million local impact.
In a Feb. 13 issue of Business
America, Mosbacher outlined his
priorities for his new position:
• To ensure that trade is a
two-way street for American busi
nesses by expanding overseas
markets for U.S. goods and serv
ices while vigorously enforcing
antidumping and countervailing
duty laws.
• To support the expansion of
new research and development
and an increase in America’s ca
pability to transfer technological
advances into product manufac
turing.
• To wholeheartedly support
a vigorous national effort to clean
up our ocean and coastal environ
ment.
• To ensure that the National
Weather Service has the ability to
provide accurate forecasts and
timely warnings for public saftey.
• To ensure a fair and accu
rate census in 1990.
Housing Enterprise 1989 held in Rudder Hall
Students can learn more about
off-campus living at Housing En
terprise 1989 from 10 a.m to 4
p.m. today in Rudder Exhibit
Hall.
Enterprise, which is sponsored
by the Off Campus Center and
S.H.A.R.E. — Students Helping
Aggie Residents Everywhere —
will feature booths with represen
tatives from local apartment com
plexes and the Bryan and College
Station Police Departments.
Representatives will provide
information regarding topics
such as rent costs, utilities and
safety precautions.
KANM holds fund raiser at Brazos Landing
By Juliette Rizzo
STAFF WRITER
KANM will sponsor a benefit
Friday at Brazos Landing to raise
money to support its operating
costs for the semester.
Alex Luke, KANM’s station
manager, said the benefit may be
the last the radio station will host
as a cable broadcast station. The
station is anticipating switching to
an FCC (Federal Communica
tions Commission) licensed sta
tion in the fall.
Luke said KANM has been
hosting benefits since 1984 to
raise money to become an FCC
station. Because Student Govern
ment awarded the station money
for this purpose last year, the sta
tion is hosting the benefit to pay
for the costs it has accrued this se
mester operating as a cable sta
tion.
The benefit is part of KANM’s
promotional week to draw atten
tion to the station and expand its
listening audience for the fall.
Representatives of KANM will be
promoting the benefit, passing
out bumper stickers and selling
KANM T-shirts in the MSC to
day. T-shirts cost $8 each.
KANM’s semi-annual publica
tion, “The Alternative,” also will
be available next week.
The benefit will be Friday from
10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Two progressive
rock bands, Trio of One from
Dallas and For Crying Out Loud
from College Station, will be per
forming along with Guidance, a
local reggae band.
Admission is $3 for those 21
and older and $4 for others. Ad
mission is $1 less with a KANM
T-shirt.
MSC Hospitality sponsors Easter Egg Hunt
All children are invited out to
Hensel Park, Area 1, from 2-4
p.m. Saturday, for the First An
nual MSC Hospitality Easter Egg
Hunt.
Children can meet the Easter
Bunny while searching for eggs
and prizes. There is no charge,
but children are asked to bring
their own baskets.
Sunrise meeting to be held Easter Sunday
The Great Commision Stu
dents and the Great Commission
Church of College Station invites
all Texas A&M students and staff
to attend a special sunrise meet
ing beside the pond in Central
Park on Easter Sunday.
The program will begin at 6
a.m. and shall consist of tradi
tional hymns, Easter music, and a
reading of the Biblical account of
Jesus Christ’s resurrection.
Following the program, there
will be coffee, juice, and rolls in
the picnic area.
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