Show Nick Clooney speaks on Redwood Campus Connie A A. Anast Staff Writer FOX FOX Television has taken off like a rocket around the j country mostly due to its non traditional non onal sit corns and real-life real dramatic shows Yet one of the brightest gems in Foxs Fox's crown is Nick Clooney anchorman for Foxs Fox's 9 pm p.m. news Clooney took the time to speak with one of Mark communication classes at about television as asa asa asa a medium for information and the value of news in a society His enthusiastic speaking style and valuable insight was a contribution contribution contribution con con- to the class Clooney started in news 40 years ago in Los Angeles He remembers the time of wire services and what he calls reading reading reading read ing information to a camera that we didn't necessarily understand understand understand under under- stand ourselves When Fox 13 hired Clooney many people thought he would be a correspondent from LA not th that t he would actually move to Utah f for r the job lilt It It is so beautiful here every time I 1 turn around I see something new he said In his address to the communications ons class he spoke of the therole therole therole role of news in America and how a free society could not arid and should not exist without free exchange of ideas Clooney said For the past 15 to 20 years most of the news has been brought to the public by television But you retain more of the information if you read it instead of listening about it I am fatally limited to the amount of information I Ican Ican Ican can give you It is vital to read newspapers and news magazines He also said that the information given in one hour of a newscast is approximately equivalent to the front page of the New York Times Tines Why do we need the news According to Clooney Journalists Jour Jour Journalists ask the greatest American question Who said so And because of asking we have stretched the parameters of our thinking larger than we ye ever have before That is why America is the greatest nation in the world Once we stop thinking freely as any institution we will crumble He cited the truism of a quote by Thomas Jefferson I If f I were to have a government without a free press or a free press without a government I would choose the latter Clooney further went on to say that newscasters and journalists journalists journalists jour jour- do not protect the First Amendment Free speech is not the possession of those in the news business but it is the peoples people's and the people need to protect itI it II I the First Amendment is i I can always get another job if repealed repealed but but what will you do You Xou must defend it v. v Ow WO ti Y 4 M |