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Show Page 4 Valley View News March 19, 1970 STAGING" pa i Ahead news camera crews, and then presents it on the air as an hv Dr. George S. Benson President NATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM Searcy, Arkansas i Til. NEWS" When a nationwide television network sets up a fraudulent scene, photographs it with its Looking l'V THE j authentic news event, it has defaulted on its responsibility to the public; Surely this is a serious abuse of freedom of the press. In its own inquiry into charges of staged news by NBC, CBS and ABC during the Democratic National Con- vention Chicago, August 1968, the Federal Communications Commission wrote each of the three networks: is The staging of news neither an area coming within the licensees journalistic judgement nor even a gray area. Rather it is the deliberate staging of alleged news events . . . (that is, a purportedly significant event which did not in fact occur but rather is acted out at the behest of news personnel). . . Such slanting of the news amounts to a fraud upon the public and is patently inconsistent with the licensees obligation to operate his facilities in the public inin ... terest." Fraud in Reporting Whether you serve lamb or ham for Easter dinner, plan to make a cake for dessert. If there are small children in the family, then by all means make it a bunny cake. It can be the centerpiece for the table and if, kept as a surprise, it may be almost as exciting as the Easter basket. For the bunny cake, youll need a cast or heavy aluminum mold, available in many houseware departments. Bake the cake in the mold and when cool, frost it with a fluffy white frosting, sprinkle with coconut. Give the bunny jelly-beaeyes and garnish the platter with Easter candy. Bunny Cake n 1 teaspoon vanilla cups sifted flour 2 eggs 2 12 teaspoons baking power 34 cup milk 12 teaspoon salt 1 recipe Fluffy Frosting 12 cup Nucoa margarine Flaked coconut 1 cup sugar Grease and flour 1 standard Bunny mold. (Half mold should hold 3 12 cups water.) Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Mix margarine with sugar and vanilla. Blend in eggs, one at a time. Mix in sifted dry ingredients, in three additions, alternately with milk. Pour into bottom half of bunny mold. Cover with top half. Place on baking sheet. Bake in 375F. (moderate) oven until cake tester inserted in small hole in top of mold comes out clean, 40 to 45 minutes. Let cool 10 minutes. Loosen edges of cake and remove from mold. Cool completely. Spread with Fluffy Frosting. Lightly press coconut into frosting. 2 Fluffy Frosting 2 egg whites 12 CUP sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla com 12 cup light 18 teaspoon salt syrup Mix together egg whites, corn syrup, sugar and salt in double boiler top. Beat slightly with rotary beater. Place over rapidly boiling water and beat constantly until frosting stands in peaks, 3 to 4 minutes. Remove from boiling water. Continue beating 1 minute. Add vanilla. Beat well. Simply Wonderful Bean Stuffings A Special Investigations Subcommittee of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce sought to track down documentation on four staged news events during the 1968 Chicago Democratic convention and its attendant rioting. Here are excerpts from its report: 1. National Guard confrontation scene: Senator and Mrs. McGee reportedly saw a newsreel crew in Grant Park arrange to have a girl demonstrator, who was wearing a bandage across her forehead, walk up to a line of National Guard troops and begin shouting, Dont hit me! when the newsreel crew gave the cue and began shooting. 2. Burning sign incident: The U. S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Mr. Thomas A. Foran, and assistant U. S. attorney Michael Nash stated that they witnessed the following: After 8 p.m. confrontation between police and demonstrators in Michigan Avenue in front of the Hilton on Wednesday night, Aug. 28, the demonstrators retreated slowly northward, followed by a line of police. Behind the line of police, it appeared that a newsman was kicking various pieces of burning trash into a pile on Michigan Avenue. There was a semicircle of newsmen, with cameras, standing and watching him. After he had a small fire burning on the street, he was handed a Welcome to Chicago sign, which he then began to ignite in the fire. When the sign started to burn, he laid it on top of the fire and signaled to the semicircle of men who filmed the burning sign. (ABC admitted one of its field producers was the man involved in this staging.) the had a conversation with the camera crew; and that he observed no apparent injury. Assistant Corporation Counsel Charles N. Goldstein, who was with Mr. Casey, made the same statement. These are just a few of the staged incidents reported in the Congressional Committee staff report. They and other facts in the report (previously reported here) provide ample cause for an objective study Creating Public Sympathy Our days are all the same size, like identBut ical suitcases. some people can pack more into them than others. Before Spring Fever hits Fraudulently Get those demonstrator Injured scene: The U. S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Mr. Foran, stated that he witnessed the following incident on Tuesday afternoon: An individual who was sitting on the grass with his back up against a tree, was holding a large bandage in his hand, conversing with a three-macamera crew, one of whom had the CBS trademark on his jacket. After a brief conversation, the camera crew began filming the individual and he held the bandage along side of his head. Mr. Foran approached in order to ascertain what they were doing, but when he inquired, the camera team immediately walked away and the individual on the ground cursed him and left the area. Mr. Foran observed no visible injury to the individuals head. 4. First aid scene: Assistant U. S. Attorney James J. Casey stated that he was in Lincoln Park on Sunday evening, Aug. 25, at approximately 9:15 p.m.; that he saw an individual lying wi the grass at the south end of the park, who was being filmed by a crew which Casey identified as CBS; that two young ladies dressed in white medical smocks were on their knees apparently giving first aid to the individual lying on the ground; that after several minutes, he observed the camera light go off and 3. Drapes Cleaner! Before the price goes up. Unlined75 Cents Wndry A Dry dfmlng KEAXNtttNES tUUMNO PHONE: n 299-39- Lined $1.00 a 22 agggsEBggri Looking For OFFICE SPACE?? Lawyers Dentists Doctors Etc. OR Small Business Dry-Cleani- - Laundry ng Repair Shops Beauty Spo Etc. ti Lake Land Development Board of Education Plans For Future Call 298-909- 5 children be adequately trained to earn a living? will they have only a skill that will no longer be needed? Perhaps they will receive no vocational education at all. These problems are basic to the vocational education 0r and investigation into network news broadcasting. As the FCC notes, slanting the news amounts to fraud upon the public, dangerous fraud. injured individual stood up and Will your program In your local high school. You will soon have a chance to express your views on the vocational trailng that Is or Is not available In Utah. The Utah tate Advisory Council for Vocational-TechnicEducation will hold three regional meetings to get public reaction tothe states program to help them In making plans for the future. Places and dates are as follows: Richfield High School, Richfield, March 16, Administration Bldg. Auditorium, Utah Technical College at Salt Lake, 4600 S. Redwood Road, March 17; and Box Elder High School, Brigham City, March 18, Each meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. Federal law requires that the advisory council hold a public meeting once a year to learn the publics Ideas about the states programs. The law also specified the make up of the group. It mus contain spokesmen for labor and management, persons who are familiar with vocational education and manpower training program, experts In the training of handicapped and disadvantaged persons and representatives of the general public, Including parents and students. Robert Halladay, executive vice president of the Utah Manufacturers Assn, Is chairman of the 22 member group. al socio-economlca- lly Start with a can of beans and a campfire, add your favorite stuffable, and have a steaming hot, gourmet dinner waiting for your fisherman when he comes wading out of the stream. If hes had a good day, the catch goes simply wonderfully with your stuffed with beans menu. If the big ones got away your bean course is hearty enough to serve as an entree. Of course, you dont need a rod and reel or a rushing river to try stuffed zucchini, eggplant or apple. The backyard barbecue serves just as well, or, if a sudden summer shower looms, iust move stuffings and stuffees back into the house. Hot, not Kona or Colombian coffee goes well with these. More people have emptied EGGPLANT WITH GARBANZO BEAN STUFFING 1 15 Vi oz. can (approx. 1 medium sized eggplant '1 Vi cups) S&W Garbanzo 1 Tbsp. butter Beans, drained, reserve V lb. ground lamb V cup liquid 2 tsp. dried parsley Vi tsp. dried mint Salt and Pepper, to taste 2 Tbsp. heavy cream half in SLICE eggplant lengthwise and scoop out center. Save center and cut into pieces. SAUTE lamb in butter until lightly browned. Add eggplant until eggplant is slightly transparent, then add Eieces and cook Old Crow bottles than any other Bourbon. MIX egg yolk and cream; add liquid from beans. Pour over bean mixture. SEASON with parsley, mint, salt and pepper. (Simmer and stir 3 minutes.) SPOON mixture into cavity of eggplant. WRAP each eggplant half in aluminum foil. Place on barbecue grill and cook until eggplant is soft. SPRINKLE with paprika. Also in photo: avocado stuffed with chili beans, apple stuffed with baked beans, pepper stuffed with barbecue beans, zucchini stuffed with red kidney beans. Tasted any Old Crow lately? nmw V STRAIGHT BOURBON ssv A WHISKY 86 PROOF. IHSTlllfO w WTTUO 8Y THE OlO CROW OiSWURY CO FRAUfORT. V 1 |