Show 1969 8 January Wei ©0© KULKARNI Columnist Life Student BY PRAMOD was 36 Ted Kennedy Sen elected the asst majority leader 3rd at a cau elected Demo of the 91st con senators last Friday Jan us of the newly atic Kennedy defeated his opponent the conservative m a Russel Long of Louisiana vote close vet-era- n frress 6 Sen Kennedy's election caused “dixie’ a break in the traditional Senate hold on the Democratic the enabled and also leadership Kennedy brothers to role as a follow-e- r his relinquish and emerge as one of the senate liberal leaders Long Conceding the defeat said it was an “experience” to be defeated by a Kennedy and warned Nixon to “watch out” role of the In seeking the asst majority or the Democra tic whip Kennedy obviously had the presidency in mind The Ken nedys have looked upon the pres-idenc- y not as a high ambition but as a logical elevation they must seek John Kennedy sought the presidency and Robert after last of the him and now it is Ted Ken-nedy- 's turn the asst majority leader as a possible heir to the 78 old leader year majority Mike Mansfield Kennedy has As and placed himself well on the road to senate leadership With hs the ma becomes a member of the seven man Policy committee which will draft a leg islative program and decide the Democratic party’s policy upon them Then it will be Kennedy’s job to see to it that all the Demo cratic senators vote ac to the commit Policy cording tee dicisions k This type of work will bring Ted Kennedy in close contact with Demoractic senators as well as congress men and party of people who will be the del egates to the national party con vention Which approach is better or Muskie’s? Both the ap proaches solve only half of the problems of getting the nomi nation The basic objective of the presidential candidate is to con Vince the party officials of his capability as a leader and his capacity to win He must also present a popular image before LITTLE Ken-nedy- the public Kennedy will be working to in fluence the party officials sena tors and governors who carry so lid chunks of delegate votes in their hands On the other hand Muskie will concentrate on gathering dele-gatsupport at the grassroot e level ficials In course of the legis Both Kennedy and Muskie will lative work Kennedy will have have their own assets and lia the opportunity to establish a bilities That man will win the solid following of the Democra nomination who will be able to tic party officials maximise his assets and limit Such official support would be the risks involved in the lia a big help to Kennedy’s bid for bilities the nomination of his party Ted Kennedy’s success will depend Kennedy’s plan closely follows upon his ability to extract sena the plan of Lyndon Johnson who torial and congressional follow as the minority leader in 1960 ing as well as maintaining a sought such a “legislative” road good public image He must not to lead him to the presidency While Kennedy is involved in Edmund legislative business Muskie who was earlier expect ed to challenge Long plans to try the “national” way like Rich ard Nixon Muskie will lecture on campuses preside over par ty rallies and campaign for Dem-cratic party candidates in local elections Thus Muskie plans to o become engrossed in legislative affairs and be forced to be tied HOPE BY TONY ARNONE Last quarter a writer submit ted an article to STUDENT LIFE The article stated that the writer did not believe that a reporter should try to be objective I could not disagree more with that idea To express what I feel I article taken the following of context from a fundamental journalism textbook Reporting by Mitchell Charnley: News is Objective News is the factual report of an event as it occurred It is not the event as a prejudiced eye might see it or as the report er might wish it to be or had thought it would be or as those concerned in it might like to present it The facts must be reported impartially as they oc curred and although the repor have out torial observers and transcrib not always as imper sonal and disinterested as a man from Mars might be nor as and awesomely wise as would be ideal there is no ex- ers are X PREAP Each Evening From 8 to 9P For Special Ynlm" 4 Quests HOMcFRIENDS AT ‘what helps our side’ M No non-sens- WiVWiivWvXi11 e SO t - v afocv ttdc&faftfr v xva-- Playtex’invents the first-da- y (We took the inside out to show you how different it tampon' is) po-litic- Mobil Oil Stations North urcnase KS0eW Playtei Corp g ver 20 Years Of Service es' 2nd International of 4 Highest Del - smoked he must report the news in the white light of impartial and scrupulously honest observa tion Only “pure” news can give the consumer confidence that the reports on which he bases his opinions are sound sources of accurate information To go back to the years when Day and Bennett were offering their revolutionary penny papers to the New York public the news papers they were challenging and hoping to replace were often not newspapers in the modern sense These papers did not print the facts of current events they printed the view of the facts that was favored by publisher editor or writer As Elmer Davis put it these papers printed “ LOWEST PRICES! With Dover WttG PEAfTEP'' tinting The reporter should look y ' keep their gpapfs up — had & TH THOUGHT OF THEIfc Co'P- at events through glasses that' are neither rose colored nor fairly reporting what was said on both sides of giving the other fellow a break What they printed was what the edi cuse in today’s news practice tor and his political backers It was when Day and for reporting events as they might wanted” came Bennett along with their have been or should have been and their news broader coverage had or as somebody wished they and let facts the to give purpose been would what think readers the they OBJECTIVITY IN NEWS is one news that them presenta about of of the dominent principles modern journalism Objectivity tion began to change As news means that the news comes to paper political adherence be the consumer untainted by any came less insistent the attitude adherence was personal bias or outside influ aof which political faded symptom ence that would make it appear Today objectivity has been ac Most it but is what anything cepted as an essential principle news media not the daily news news practice by virtually ev of news alone paper agree that should be considered inviolable ery American newsofmedium The Newspaper American Society and that all news not only news should be present Editors recognized the validity ed without slating shading or of the principle in 1923 when one of its guides to ethical news practice held that partisanship in the news columns must be considered “subversive of a fund amental principle of the profes sion” In 1943 Paul White later for his given a Peabody Award of the Columdirection superb bia Broadcasting System’s newQuality Products sservice expressed his belief that “the fact that objectivity is an does ideal difficult to attain nor ideal itself a the not impair North Mafr a from excuse the broadcaster Ward to effort and constant vigilant all-seein- they study down in Washington as Lyndon Johnson was in 1960 Ted Kenne dy will also have to keep up in the news headlines He will have to speak out on the major is sues But Kennedy must not be overexposed like Hubert Hump hrey or speak out in the gar gled manner of George Romney m ?U752390 MAN ON CAMPUS attain it” Continued Next Issue Outside: it’s softer and silky ( not cardboardy) Inside : it’s so extra absorbent it even protects on your first day Your worst day! 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