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Show 3A DESERET NEWS, Friday, September 6, 1768 N.Y. Aide Sentence Set - By DREW PEARSON and JACK ANDERSON - This is a WASHINGTON column which will make a lot of TV executives sore. It may also make some viewers skeptical about the TV rove rape of the recent Chicago convention. We attended both political conventions and witnessed violence in both Miami and Chicago. Outside agitators came to both cities to foment trouble that they hoped would attract the spotlight and tarnish the U.S. image. Anyone who watched the two conventions on television might think that Chicago was exploding with violence while Miami was comparatively peaceful. Yet in Miami, six persons were killed, and the riot area was put under curfew. In Chicago, sniper fire was reported, but only one policeman was wounded. A bullet also thudded into a bus. The outbreaks never became serious enough to require a curfew. After the Miami convention we reported that the TV networks, angry over the $3 mil- - the disturbances i n g Merry-Go-Roun- s repute mafia leafor; Henry Fried, president of S. T. Grand, Inc.; and Daniel J. Motto, a bakery workers union leader. d hon it was costing them to pull up their cables and transfer everything to Chicago, intended to retaliate by focusing attention on Democratic "disturbances. The networks got their revenge. In Chicago they played up the violence which they ha t virtually ignored in Miami. They complained about tight security restrictions, which, incidentally, had also been imposed by the Reconvention. They publican sought out the dissidents and while the them featured were orators Democratic expounding. This raises two important questions about the role of TV at the Democratic convention. 1. Did the TV cameras help incite the violence? There is little doubt that the provocations were planned largely for the benefit of television. We stayed at the Conrad Hilton hotel, which was the cu.ter of the most of the trouble. Dur- - we picture mingled with the hippies and yippies. We found almost no action outside the circle of the TV kleig lights. Aside from some shouting and surging, little was happening in the go. They gave the impression, for instance, that the police were beating up innocent young people who had come to Chicago for peaceful demonstrations. Certainly, the police were too zealous in swinging their billy clubs, and a lot of innocent people were hurt. But TV the networks scarcely mentioned the provocations that finally made the police lose their tempers. The hippies shouted obscenities, rocks and bottles, hurled sprayed police with caustic chemicals, damaged police cars and generally defied police orders. One group tore down the American flag and tried to raise a Communist flag in its place. Other agitators waved red flags and North Vietnamese flags. A ciuple of demonstrators slammed a huge chunk of cement through the window of a police car. Others stoned police cars, tossed cherry bombs and stink smashed bombs, windows, broke into liquor stores. Syndicate C 1W, darkness. the Did 2. networks TV make news? There is evidence that the TV networks, perhaps in their eagerness to genriate high ratings for TV sponsors, encouraged dissi- dents to make inflammatory statemerts and helped to stir When the up controversies. networks sell convention time to cigarette and oil sponsors for several million dollars, they have io keep up the viewing interest. One way of doing this is to pick fights, stimulate excitement, interrupt dull speeches and roll calls. Once, the sound was on before the camon a TV newsabout to interview a switched eras focused man prominent interviewer of the events in Chica- The Democrat. was overheard coaching his subject: "Let's this keep Kennedy story going." The TV networks also presented an outrageously biased NEW YORK (AP) Former City Water Commissioner James L. Marcus, awaiting sentencing in a federal kickback conspiracy case, has pleaded guilty to tsate charges of a sim- onspiraev to commit perjury before a grand jury, taking unlawful fees while a city official and receiving a $1,500 bribe while watr commissioner, a post he res.gned last December. He is to appear for sentencing ilar nature. The onetime aide on the charges Oct 14 and could of Mayor John V. Lindsay get up to a seven-yea- r prison in term. pleaded Thursday guilty State Supreme Court to charges Next Monday, in U.S. District of eed-- A Court, Marcus is scheduled to be sentenced for his role in a consn'-c- v kickback $40 000 r with a prison term possible. Marcus turned government witness in the federal case in June against three other defendants after he pleaded guilty. 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