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Show PHILOSOPHIZING press, big government or big business. I think we would have found ways to get our audience's views on the air. I think we should 1 do it now." Eric Sevareid "During the Johnson Administration, Ad-ministration, six million people were raised above the poverty level. ..And there is a substantial and successful Negro middle class. But the newsmen are not interested in the Ncr succeeds they're inter-the inter-the one who fails and r loud noise. They have (re-developments (re-developments in the fc South has an increasing -j of integrated schools. At of the South has acrr tegration. We've had a Pv Cabinet with a Negro ir -( more important, we re-Negroes re-Negroes elected to local c- the deep South! It-, tremendous achiever"; that achievement isn't'': see on the screen. j "Newsmen are proud oi " . that the middle class tagonisticto them. Ther-of Ther-of being out of contact' middle class. Joseph fe" column in which hes -face it, we reporters t: little to do with Middle", They're not our l'; people. . .' Well, I resent: from middle America-"The America-"The negative attitude destroyed Lyndon)"-, waiting to be appW Nixon. Johnson politically assassin-some assassin-some are trying to -Nixon politically- ; Richard Nixon irraW'. "Our liberal friends.!, become dogmatic- I , set of automatic rea , react the way pc do with over-Oversimplify- Be savour sa-vour fellow, bj, what's 'good- ln ventional, they re c They're pleasing V there pleasing t -Post, they're pi -of the New Yor they're pleasing j "The conspiracy theory of history, the devil theory, always finds a ready response when a lot of people are frustrated, baffled by the complexity of things. I'm not impressed with claims that a great majority of the country thinks that the war protestors are wrong. Joe McCarthy had a majority of Americans convinced that this government was crawling with Communists. It simply was not so. But a tremendous number of people believed it was because it was an easy answer. They were disappointed disap-pointed and upset by many of the results of the war. The public mood of the moment is not necessarily right, nor is it necessarily going to last. A great majority believed in this Vietnam intervention, when people like me were in the minority. Mr. Agnew says (the news medias) should all more closely reflect the majority feeling in the country. But majorities change. That's not our business. Suppose we were elected (as Agnew would like). You'd have an absolute shambles in communications. I think there should be some changes in the way (the news media) do various things. I've always wanted to have on the air regular programming of rebuttal either by letters from viewers or having the people on themselves. There must be a way to do this. We. ..suppose you'd had that system for the last few years on a regular basis, where all kinds of objections to what was said on television were voiced by ordinary or-dinary people. Maybe a lot of this feeling would have dissipated. That's one of our difficulties here. People are confronted by great big organizations and they can't , answer back, whether it's the |