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Show LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Look past friends Editor: Le Brown, the television editor of "Variety," "Vari-ety," has said: "Public TV is more interested inter-ested in prestige and in the sources of its operating monies than in the attentions of the lower classes." I remember that when I read your Oct. 1, 1971, interview with Rex Campbell of KUED. Dr. Campbell's philosophy of the "integrity" of public TV and the "crap" he says is fed to the "degenerate audience" of commercial TV brings back Brown's claim that TV's "guiding powers know little or nothing about the medium." Dr. Campbell was very frank about the audience which watches public television-"nobody"-but I wonder if changing the name from "educational" to "Public television" televi-sion" is enough to encourage a larger tune-in. If public television is to maintain the kind of "integrity" Rex Campbell suggests, its quality will certainly be "educational." "edu-cational." But George Edward Woodberry said: "Education has really only one basic factor. . .one must want it." Public television's televi-sion's one consistent success has been "Sesame Street" and it's obvious, the children "want it." It's a matter of public taste. If there is enough creativity in public television to cultivate a taste for more programs of "Sesame Street" quajity, demand will be apparent and the public will open its pocketbook. Until then, the demand will stay with commercial TV and its supporting support-ing advertising dollafr Perhaps Rex Campbell should devote a little study to the available audience beyond be-yond his "friends." Prestige is much more than self-asserted status. It's the power to command admiration through success. Roy Gibson News Director, KCPX-TV Fund finds fault Editor: In Ayn Rand's novel "ATLAS SHRUGGED," the heroine named her railroad rail-road after "John Gait" who represented to the public something disturbing, hateful and fearful. When asked why she did this the heroine answered, "Because it's going to shock the rest of them just as it shocks you... Fear? Despair? Futility? That's what I want to throw in their faces." The editorial concerning the Joseph McCarthy McCar-thy Memorial Fund could have been malicious mali-cious had it not been so funny. When sensationalism, fear tactics, and emotionalism emotional-ism are used to condemn these supposed The Fund does not seek toearn money we ready have it. We do not attemp 7o create fear and hysteria like our editorial counterparts. We try only to info m o concerning freedom, limited government capitalism and the premise un eMytg such vital-matters. If by merely hearing a name you begin to hate and fear, ask yourself why. If you fear investigating an opposing view from the liberal dogma surrounding us, perhaps it is because you have no philosophical base to your opinions-or your identity itself is too weak to attempt it. The Joseph McCarthy Memorial Fund Not representative Editor: In reading much of the comment made about "Jesus Christ, Superstar," and the current political situation in the Salt Lake Valley, we feel that a distorted view of student opinion has been printed in this newspaper. In consequence, we protest the editorial poliaes of The Daily Utah Chronicle and desire to disavow our support of it as a true representative of all student opinion. We further feel such policies reflect intolerance intoler-ance towards majority groups on campus and do not report accurately happenings of value and interest to the totality of University Univer-sity students. Therefore we ask sincerely that a concien-cious concien-cious effort be made to strike a correct balance between all organizations and interest in-terest groups of the University community, we also hope that proper dignity ' and respect for all said groups would be dis played in reporting activities of w William Pingree, Sen.Ctofc Stanford Darger, Pres. Delta Phil-Doug Phil-Doug Matsumori, LDSSA Men'sG Air Force slighted Editor: The Oct. 4 issue of the Chronic'' a short, openly derogatory about the ROTC's effort to be the Chronicle. You said you ref because their story was ''not your editorial disguise for scarcely merited print either. 1 ogy you employed was g. J and emotionally oriented. n i your clientelle, you should strw Lin an objective and un,W style. Otherwise, there is no a editorials aimed at them othtf" for catharsis. This campus o psychiatric care for anyone be needs. If mankind is ever going to ' laws of tooth and claw happen as the cumulative r" ual toleration, respect an virtue of their beinS apology to the ROIL in". f0f- David Waid |
