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Friday, February 25, 1983 The Lance S.A. Community Questions The Credibility Of The Press By KEN KRUGER A virtual flood of news and information has inun dated the American public in recent years. This flood, pro mpted by technological ad vances such as word pro cessors and news satellites, has permitted instanteous ac cess to domestic and world wide events. As the public’s appetite for news has grown, however, so has the opportunity for the distortion of facts surroun ding the news. In a democracy, accuracy and honesty in reporting is a sacred trust placed on the news industry by the public it serves. In order to discover whether or not the American press is honoring thai trust, members of the St. Andrews community, representing faculty, staff, and students, were asked recently what they thought of the credibili ty of the press. “You have to,” Dr. W.D. White, professor of English, said, “read critically, not because of bias, but because the nature of the media means you don’t get in-depth analysis. You have to keep it in proper perspective. Excep tions would be newspapers where they do in-depth analysis, like the Sunday New York Times. “This doesn’t mean that bias doesn’t exist editorially on a paper-to-paper basis, but that’s what freedom of the press is. they qualify each other. I believe that freedom of the press is intrinsic to a democratic society.” Roberta Rankin, instruc tor in the theatre program, says it depends on the newspaper. “I believe in the Washington Post and the New York Times. I don’t believe in the National En quirer and garbage like that. Jack Anderson is reliable but very sensational. He stirs people up William Rasberry is less sensational but just as willing to face hard issues such as human suffering and government boondoggling. “I tend to look at how balanced a newspaper is; at the balanced range of coverage from conservative to liberal. I don’t believe all of it and again it depends on who is doing the writing and where it is being published. A lot of things come out of the wire services. I take everything with a grain of salt. Over a period of time, the truth will bubble to the top. Sometimes I feel that things are manufactured to fill up the news media.” Maureen Ingalls, a senior majoring in' politics, from Fayetteville, N.C., said, “I think it may lean toward the liberal side, however, there is a wide range of ideas that are able to be expressed. I think there is a certain amount of censorship imposed by dif ferent governmental regulating agencies.” Charles Farrell, a freshman commuting student from Laurel Hill, N.C., said, “The press has a way of making things seem the way they want it to. They are not as objective as they should be, particularly the electronic news media. Newspapers get their national news from the write syndicates, which is the same as the electronic media. They are a little more objec tive in that the facial expres sions and vocal tones are not observable, but they still slant the news sometimes. I usually read the Charlotte Observer and the Laurinburg Exchange.” Sarah Peterson, resident director of Concord Hall, said, “I think very little of the credibility of the press. A newspaper reporter writes about the sensational and doesn’t pay enough attention to the facts and sometimes doesn’t even have the facts. They never quote, but only say it is rumored.” Dan Stewart, campus postmaster, said, “I read the Charlotte Observer, Laurin burg Exchange and the Wall Street Journal once in a while. I think they are about 70 percent accurate.” Mark Johnson Killed In Bike Accident While most of the St. An drews students were enjoying their time at home with their families and friends the fami ly of former St. Andrews stu dent Mark Johnson were go ing through the misery of los ing a member of their family. Mark, who was a soccer player for the Knights last year, was killed on December 23, when he crashed his Mark Johnson motorcycle into a truck in Atlanta, Ga. Although Mark was only here a semester the people who knew him felt like thy had a brother. He was a poet as well as, a soccer player and was perpetually friendly. All of us that knew Mark realize the great loss of potential and friendship that was lost when he was killed. Concert Review Neil Young Rocks Chapel Hill By BILL LIDE Neil Young, guitarist and song writer extraordinarie, visited Carmichael auditorium in Chapel Hill on Tuesday, Feb. 8 and gave the audience a show that displayed his diverse talents. Young, a veteran rocker from the 60’s, rarely tours the South, so any chance to see him is a treat for his fans from Crosby, Stills, and Nash and Young, Buffalo Springfield and his solo works. Young, who played alone, opened with a set of acoustic songs that included “After the Gold Rush” and several songs he just recorded in Nashville. The second set was a classic that included several of Young’s more popular tunes like “Old Man,” “Heart of Gold”, “Ohio”, “Helpless’ and “Powderf- inger”. During the second set the guitarist showed his diversity by playing “Are You Transformed”, a song that is featured onhis most recent album, Trans. The third and last set was a mix of old and new as Young opened with a syn thesized version of “Mr. soul”, a song he played when he was in Buffalo Spr ingfield. Also featured in the third set were “Comes a Time” and two more syn thesized songs off of Trans. Many people who attended the show were disappointed that Young ended with his newer electronic music, and I confes I didn’t enjoy the newer music as much, but those fans who said it was not an enjoyable show must not appreciate the fact that they had the opportunity to see Neil Young play his classics, which is something that very few people can say. Internship Guide On-the-job experience is almost a necessity today in order to land a good job, so look to the annual directory which lists 16,000 temporary positions providing a wide range of experience: 1983 In ternships, edited by Colleen Cannon (Writer’s Digest Book $10.95, paper). College students, women re-entering the work force, and people seeking a career change have come to rely on Internships for up-to-date in formation on short-term job opportunities in fields rang ing from advertising to ar chitecture, journalism ^o health care, government to public relations, and theater to social service. These career-oriented posi tions are located throughout the United States and include jobs in technical, profes sional, and service occupa tions. In this 1983 guide, listings are grouped by pro fession and indexed geographically to help locate jobs in specific areas. Each listing is up-to-date and packed with information on the duties of the position, training offered, qualifica tions, college credit availability, length and season of the internship, pay and fringe benefits, housing availability, and application contacts, procedures, and deadlines. 1983 Internships also in cludes helpful articles with advice on how to apply for a position, internships for adults, and how to create your own internships. Finding the right job is the first step on the way to a suc cessful career. 1983 Intern ships puts job-seekers in line for tomorrow’s jobs by giv ing them on-the-job ex perience today! To obtain a copy of 1983 Internships, send $10.95, plus $1.50 postage and handling, to: Writer’s Digest Books, 9933 Alliance Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45242. Or call toll-free 1-800-543-4644 (outstide Ohio) for credit card orders. (Korea cont.) — I’ve grown an instand “deaf ear” to turn on when I walk down a street and EVERYONE make a com ment about the “me-gook” (American.) I’ve developed the blind courage necessary to hop on a standing room only bus and travel alone in ignorance in this country of strange tongue. I’ve learned to BOW A LOT!!! I’ve adjusted to rice for almost EVERY meal, and to the favorite Korean food KIMCHI (a HOT pickled cabbage). And, I’ve even learned how to keep a strong appetite when, after I order chicken in a restaurant, I can actually hear the Korean woman go out back, chop off the head, and pick the feathers on the spot! (Talk about FRESH MEAT!—these folks even eat chicken feet!!) But most important, I have learned, with patience and impatience, with shame and thankfulness, with anger and hopefulness how it feels to live a country so necessari ly concerned about the ac tivities of my own country. Beyond the evidences of America’s physical presence here-the Pepsis, the “pop songs” (yes—would you believe even Juice Newton)!, the suits, computers, ar chitecture, and the rampant business congolmerates- Korea listens for us. In fact, (and I think this is so difficult for us Americans to understand) they must listen. They must listen because we—we with our capitalism and strength and freedom of democracy have played quite a significant.role in Korea’s,Warring past. So now, beyond the Peps> bottle is an American solider, one of thousands here to ward off Communist inva sion from North Korea-still the homeland of so many of this generation’s Soutn Korean relatives. And above the “76 L.P.” si8"’ American helicopters praC' tice protective drlls, con- tinously. South Korea is a glorious mixture of colorful culture and faithful warmth and pas suffering and present fe^- And as Americans, always here. we K
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