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Show r1lr Hi yill'ny The Salt Lake Tribune, gaturdsy, August f t Cli.nl'. B. Soil : 12, 1978 5 f:5? American Press Is Not Alone I11 Fight Against Censorship The Washington Post WASHINGTON While American journalists struggle with the threats posed by a hostile judiciary at home, the cause of free piess seems to be going down the drain in much of the rest of the world That is the mess ge of little book just out called "Access Denied The Politics of Press Censorship " For those who believe that a basic human right is free access to information and ideas all kinds of information and ideas it is about as dispiriting as some of the recent pronouncements of Supreme Court justices The author i Sean Kelly, a Voice of America correspondent His book is the product of a year at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies and is published by the Center 'Many Ways to Censor Kelly gets under way on a grim note "there are many ways of censoring the news and they all seem to bt getting worse " The human censor with his blue pencil is old hat. he reports Today censorship is accomplished by more sophisticated, more impersonal devices the restriction of visas for correspondents, the denial of transmission facilities, the threat of expulsion, the many forms of official harassment, such as we are seeing in the Soviet Union today, and even, as in the case of Cambodia, the total exclusion of reporters All this has a special appeal to the newly arrived dictator, military junta or committee of workers and peasants, says Kelly, and it is gathering momentum In the long run an even more depressing fact of international life is the official line in many countries particularly the less developed Third World, that: countries of the Tools of Government 1 News media are proper tools of government Their function is not simply to inform but to serve nationalistic ends 2. The news organizations of the industrial nations meaning mainly Western Europe and the United States dominate the'world's news flow in a way that is destructive to the interests of the less advanced nations The focus of this double-barrele- d rejection of a free press is UNESCO, a United Nations organization dominated by the developing nations, which frequently team up with the Soviet Union and the rest of the Eastern European bloc. In the fall of 1976 the United States, by a d "Tho president cant lie disturbed mm Andrew t uung i on the phone!' Patric k J. Buchanan Just Whos Calling Whom a Racist? WASHINGTON Every so often, opinion surveys appear revealing that most Americans heliee at that there exists a federal bias toward the black minority, and b) that govern-men- t pays too much attention to black demands Civil rights leaders write off such reactions to the "endemic racism of the American people. But not a small measure of culpability for the deterioration in race re- lations can be traced to the almost pandemic paranoia of the nation's black leadership. What occasions this column is a piece in a reoen issue of The Washington Post As whites have begun moving back into Washington from the suburbs, black activists have detected a conspiracy to "reclaim the central city for whites." a conspiracy hatched by the "white business community, hoard of trade type What makes this wildly amusing is that the same blacks who see a racist plot in the white return to Washington saw an identical racist plot in the "white flight" from the city 15 years Consider, for example, the unrelieved rhetorical hostility of black politicians for the two weighed preceding Republican presidents against their performances In the first term alone of Richard the Racist". Bernstein on Words The use of then as an adjective annoys Felicia Leach of somewhere in Pennsylvania She writes that terms such as "the then mayor appear in her local newspaper at least four times a year and she finds phrases like that awkward I suggest that she relax because that use of then is not only grammatically correct but also quite serviceable. It means, of course, a certain past time and its connotation thus goes beyond the word former One sentence might say, The turbulent Sixties were a tough time for an officeholder, said former Mayor John Jones," but a more specific sentence would speak of the then mayor, John Jones Nothing awkward about that, is there? Now then. . . In the last two decades, white liberals especially have gone along with the Civil Rights Commission. EEOC, model cities, OEO, aflirmaive action, forced busing, the Philadelphia Plan, racial quotas, scatter-sit- e housing. OBE, etc., etc. The civil rights enforcement budget rose HOO percent Blacks in executive civil service jobs rose .17 percent The Office of Minority Business Enterprise was established U S buying from minority business rose 1.700 percent U S aid to blac k colleges doubled. U S deposits in black banks rose 4.000 percent The percentage of integrated schools in Dixie rose from a meager 10 percent to almost 70 percent The number of food stamp recipients rose 600 percent Welfare rolls doubled "Guaranteed annual income" was introduced d Where, one wonders, is the gratitude of black politicians for the exertions of their countrymen to wipe out the consequences of a century of segregation When last did you see a black God Bless political conclave singing America? Maybe the time has arrived for some white politician to give it to black leader Benjamin Hooks & Co wih the bark on. to respond to the next demand w ith JFK's simple reminder. "Ask not what your rountry can do foryou, ak what you can do for your countrv. (Copyright) Years ago Simple, Benign Explanation The simple, more benign explanation that the whites moved to the suburbs, as blacks are doing today, to give their kids green space to grow up. and are now returning to a vital and vibrant city, now that the kids are grown and will not be entertained by our local gone exhibits of the paranoid style in racial politics Maybe Sen Daniel P Movnihan was right We need a period of "benign neglect. when allegations of racism are simply ignored Even American Civil Liberties Union types, lifetime enthusiasts of the civil rights revolution. were written off as racist for supporting the claim of Allan Bakke In Nixon's s years went from $2 billion to assistance Housing $5 billion Education expenditures (federal) rose 50 percent to more than 10 billion annually. Health expenditures doubled to $22 billion Income securuty assistance doubled front $.58 billion to more than $80 billion Until 1077. the process proceeded When Richard Nixon took office in 19. the federal close to half of it for budget was $179 billion defense. When Gerald Ford left office, the budget was estimated at $417 billion a fourth of it going for defense Yet. Andy Young dismisses both men as and civil rights leaders charge closet racists both with gutting the Great Society " five-plu- The Way It Was tabernacle, were the pertinent factors Here are briefs of news in The Salt Lake Tribune from 100, 50 and 25 years ago: August 12, 1878 At West Jordan, on Sunday, Judge Gardner had Mr McClarry up for trial before the meeting on a charge of drunkenness. It was clearly proven that the tippler had had a thimbleful or two too much of Valley Tan and had been guilty of the gross impropriety of appearing before the people in a bestial state of intoxication After conviction, Mr. McClarry was allowed to explain, which he did by drawing a parallel between himself and the judge I takes my tod. and so do the judge, I takes it by the quart, and so do our judge; I takes it every time I can get it, and so do 'ee; difference, my dear brothers and sisters, is that 'ee shuts himself hoop in the cellar where none of you can see him, and sweats it off, while I goes on the street like a man where you hall sees me " Mr McClarry was not handed over to the buffetings of Satan, and Judge Gardner still takes his Valley Tan in the cellar. Charge of Racism Indeed, anv disagreement these days with the black leadership can elicit the charge of racism Even though more than 40 percent of the black voters in California went for Proposition 13. civil rights leaders see racism behind the tax revolt If you oppose full voting representation for Washington (1 e , two senators for 64 square miles), it is because you are a racist opposed to Senate seats to blacks in t impressions gained by Archbishop Edward A Mooney, apostolic delegate to India, who was a visitor and guest of the Rt. Rev. John J. Mitty Monday for a few hours between trains. Archbishop during the morning visited the LDS Church offices and toured the buildings and grounds. At noon, he attended the tabernacle concert and said the organ recital was one of the most inspiring things of his visit to America. August 12, 1953 plucky young Salt Lake woman Tuesday night pursued a suspected burglar two blocks, demanded the money he allegedly stole and with some assistance held him until surprised police arrived to make an arrest. Miss Grace Allen, 19, fearlessly pursued the suspect from her residence for two A exerting financial pressure, was able to thwart a UNESCO endorsement of the idea that a stale has a sovereign right to control news entering its borders and collected within its borders In November the issue must be faced again at a UNESCO meeting in Pans ' All Is Not Lost The picture Kelly paints is gloomy But he thinks there are things that can be done to bolster the cause of free communications He is encouraged by President Carter's strong emphasis on human rights, including the right to a free traffic in ideas, but he thinks the point should be driven home harder. The U S commitment to press freedom." he says, "should be seen as basic to the w ay the United States conducts its relations with other It should be taken for what it is, an nations Integral aspect of the U S national character ... There is considerable there is an imbalance As Kelly points out. market is dominated truth in the charge that in the world news flow the international news by a few corporations with headquarters in the West the Associated Press, United Press International. Time. Newsweek. Reuters, Agence France- prosse Charge Overstated These organizations sell news and therefore are inclined to stress the kinds of news that appeal to their primary consumers The charge that the Western press is interested only in catastrophe and disaster when it reports' on faraway places is overstated. Still, there is some truth in it as there is truth in the charge that the Western concept of news accentuntes the negative Kelly thinks the imbalance can be tempered by the exportation of expertise and technology He suggests that the U S International Communications Agency, which combines such activities as the Voice of America 'With cultural and educational exchange programs, can be of great assistance. He would encourage the exchange of journalism students and teachers and working reporters and editors, with Americans spending brief residencies in Third World journalism schools and heir opposite numbers coming here. ( , This is an obvious way to break down misunderstandings on both sides, Kelly s'pys No question about that. And there is no question but what the government will have to play a part in selling the Third World on the glories of the free press U.S., Press Sticklers The tricky part will be to get the U S government and press to work together on this without succumbing, or appearing to succumb, to what is being combated that is. the idea that it is proper for the government to use the press to achieve its ends. The American press, through its World Press Freedom Committee, has been making some progress in collecting money from nongovernment sources to finance work with the media of the Third World. The theory, a reasonable one, is that helping those nations build their own news organizations will automatically dilute the Western dominance they find so objectionable and at the same time foster the idea of journalistic freedom. While Kelly sees an important role for the government in all this perhaps a more important role than I see he warns that there is a question of how far the government should go. In our history. ,) it has traditionally been people themselves who safeguarded freedom of expression. Governments role in he says, this endeavor has been supportive, occasionally even repressive, but rarely pioneering. Which is another way of saying that the press itself is going to have to get busy, in its own if for no other reason (Copyright) blocks. On the comer of North Temple and West Temple, Miss Allen caught up with the man, a standing 5 ft 10V4 inches She immediately demanded her money back, and on his refusal, called for aid from a service station attendant. 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