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THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 10. 1977
TV's influence on sports
and other things
Would that big sports event have happened even if there were no
TV? This is a simplified version of the questions a House
subcommittee will be considering this week in hearings on the
networks' influence over sports. Such questions go far beyond
athletics to the whole question of TV's interaction with "real life."
It might be a simple thing like repeating the presenting of an
award for the convenience of the cameras. It might be persuading
the participants in a news event to do something a little different or
at a different time. Or it might be -- in any realm -- whatever has
been happening in sports to raise a key question for the
subcommittee chairman: "Is the public seeing an independent event
covered by electronic journalists or an event staged for and
controlled by television?"
Certainly a lot of sports still goes on in the United States without
the lucrative presence of TV. But sports coverage is one of the things
TV does best, and most people would not cut back on the events that
do get televised. The fun can only be enhanced by the restoration of
any lost authenticity discovered in the hearings.
TV is a two-way street, of course. If it uses the real world for its
purposes, the real world in turn tries to manipulate TV. Politicians
and other public-relations men quickly learn to time what they want
the public to know for maximum exposure on the network news -
and to bury other items by slipping them out after deadlines or
during weekends.
Columnist William Safire, demon follower of the Bert Lance
affair, gives this as one of the reasons for Mr. Lance's "apparent
triumph" in his climactie Senate hearings: "The decision of
committee Democrats, on the advice of Lance lawyer Clark Clifford,
to postpone the most devastating questioning about the tax-free use
of the bank aircraft until 5 o'clock on Saturday afternoon was
inspired. The picture of Lance at his worst, defending tax-deducted
trips to football games and the Mardi Gras, was not on TV's evening
news, and was generally too late for the news magazines and most
editions of Sunday newspapers."
Clearly it is not only TV but other channels of communication that
interact with the content of their stories. Newspapers have been
known to shape the news, and would-be newsmakers to manipulate
the papers.
The opportunity for distortion is always there. Everyone in the
media has a responsibility to preserve the authenticity of events. The
hearings on TV and sports will be worth it if they encourage this
responsibility and the public demand for it. -Christian Science
Monitor
Congress's treats
Remember the revelations from Washington about congressmen
hiring, at the taxpayers' expense, young and pretty secretaries who
didn't know how to type? One good effect of those disclosures is this
year's new regulation which requires members of the House of
Representatives to make public itemized reports on how they have
been spending their annual $2,000 official business expense
allowances.
The representatives in the House are allowed to make up their own
minds about which expense items should be considered legitimate
and therefore chargeable to us taxpayers. Certainly there can be no
argument about such items as electric light and telephone bills for
local district offices, or travel between Washington and their
districts.
But how about some of the other "official" expenses, made public
this year for the first time, such as $146.50 for a Little League
baseball players luncheon or the $332.50 for 35 engraved
"Congressional Medals of Merit" awarded by New York's
Congressman John Wydler to outstanding school students in his
district? Another New York Representative, Elizabeth Holtzman,
billed the taxpayers $1291 for catering and $106.14 for drinks served
at her inauguration day party. And one congressman billed the
government $17.50 for a tuxedo rented for a Saint Patrick's Day
parade that was rained out.
It might be well for us to keep an eye on these expense accounts,
which are published in reports by the Clerk of the House of
Representatives at our expense. When the padding seems to be a
little too thick, let your congressman know about it. -The Boston
Herald American
Jimmy and me
Some say President Carter's attention to detail could be a drag on
his larger presidential responsibilities. But surely he is providing a
proper example to the populace -? no small part of a chief executive's
job -- when he tries to keep aides up to the mark in syntax, spelling
and arithmetic. If the President doesn't car; who will?
He reportedly indicates corrections on memos. And recently he
sent a handwritten memo on a "matter of grammar" noting a
persistent problem "for Susan and me (not Susan and I)." Susan
Clough is Mr. Carter's secretary, and the error was obviously that
familiar one affecting people trying to avoid the childhood no-no of
saying, "Susan and me went to the movies."
See, you don't use "me" as the subject of the verb ("went"). But
you do use "m^" ^j>,the object of the preposition ("for"). Our object
in raising this subject is simply to wish Mr! Carter well in trying to
correct the things that can be so easily corrected while he continues
to work on the hard ones. -- Christian Science Monitor
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TTm Christian Sricnc# MonitCK
Browsing in the files
of The News-Journal
25 years ago
Thursday, November 6, 1952
Incomplete unofficial returns
from Tuesday's voting over the
nation yesterday indicated that
General Dwight D. Eisenhower had
received majorities in 38 of the 48
states for a total of 431 electoral
votes and would become the next
President.
* * *
The Hoke High Bucks finally
broke their non-winning streak last
Friday afternoon with a resounding
26-7 victory over Erwin at Erwin.
McLeod and Willcox starred for
Letter To
The Editor
Dear Editor.
I'm sure that by now you are
aware that President Jimmy Carter
is actively engaged in a massive
public relations campaign designed
to win Senate approval of the
Administration's Panama Canal
treaties that Ambassadors Bunker
and Linowitz recently negotiated
with the Panamanians. Did you
know that certain members of the
United States House of Represen
tatives have filed suit in Federal
Court challenging the constitution
ality of the new treaties?
The suit, if I understand it
correctly, was filed because these
Congressmen feel that if the "give
away" of our canal is to be judged
legal. If the transaction is to be
final, valid, and binding, the
treaties must receive approval from
both the Senate and the house of
Representatives.
This really does concern the
Generals and the Admirals, be
cause they are afraid to oppose the
treaties, because they are afraid of
their jobs, but many of the former
top Brass have retired; conse
quently most of them have now
testified before the Senate commit
tee in opposition to the treaties,
and after all this does concern
mostly the Navy. The Generals and
the Admirals of the Reserve Offi
cers Association who were polled
concerning the treaty.... 14 said
they were in favor of the treaty;
however. 302 said they were
opposed to the treaties and to the
giveaway of the Canal.
The United States of America,
does not. in reality, have a two
Ocean Navy, and even if we did.
would it be enough for our 5 Ocean
responsibility? Could we cover the
5 Oceans adequately without the
priority passage through the canal
now afforded to the United States
Naval Ships? Why this Canal saves
about 8.000 miles and up to 30 days
in moving cargos from one coast to
the other. If the Navy needed Air
Support and needed it in a hurry
for Naval Operations in that area,
the Canal Zone offers the only
land-based aircraft in the area. The
Canal Zone has the only ship repair
facility within 1.600 miles on the
Atlantic side, and 2.500 miles on
the Pacific side.
Our U.S. Navy has only 12 ships
that are too large to pass through
the canal; however 450 ships can
use the Canal that belongs to our
Navy.
Please write to your Congress
man and to both Senators and ask
them to vote against this giveaway
of the Panama Canal.
Sincerely.
Bill Williamson
the Bucks.
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Airman 3C Neil A. McNeill
arrived here last week from Lowry
AFB, Colorado, where he has been
stationed for some time.
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Josephine Hall, Hoke County
Home Demonstration Agent, has
just received notice from the
Crosley Corporation of Cincinnati,
Ohio, that she is one of the ten
winners in the Crosley Better
Homemaking Contest for Septem
ber.
? * *
After skipping a week there was
a full day of work for the county
recorder's court Tuesday. Judge
Harry Greene held court all day
and called a special session for this
morning in order to clear the
docket of more cases before
Superior Court next week.
1 5 years ago
Thursday, November 8, 1962
Coach Jim Hickey, the hard -
pressed character builder at the
University of North Carolina, has
accepted an invitation to speak at
the annual Booster Club Awards
banquet, to be held this year
December 3 at the McLauchlin
School.
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Spurred on by a tremendous
showing in the Industrial Division,
the Hoke United Fund headed into
the last week of its campaign for
SI 7,900 with a grand total of
$16,072.82 reported.
? * *
The chairman of the Hoke ABC
Board, veteran school man K.A.
MacDonald has submitted his
resignation "to take effect im
mediately upon the appointment
and qualification of my successor."
? * *
There will be another test of the
Civil Defense siren this Friday at
noon, C.D. Director Alfred Cole
announced.
? * *
In record numbers for an off -
year election, Hoke voters Tuesday
approved all six constitutional
amendments and piled up, 1,000
vote margins for Democratic
nominees.
Only th? newspaper gives to
much attention to the activities of
youth ? with mor* than 57 per
cent of responding newspapers
printing speciol youth sections,
poges or columns.
Probably no issue of recent times
has had more emotional impact on
people generally that the attempt
by our government to agree upon
Panama Canal Treaties. My office
received literally thousands of
pieces of mail, mostly postcards
which are the result of an organized
campaign, protesting the signing of
any treaty which would cause us to
lose control of the Canal.
Let me say as plainly as I can
that 1 will not lend my name to any
agreement that reduces the ability
of the United States to defend the
Canal or which reduces our right to
use the Canal in times of peace or
war. But having been to Panama
and seen the situation there in
person. I am convinced that we
need to make some changes there,
whether it be done by treaty or
some other method.
A treaty agreement, of course, is
a two-way street. I will have to be
convinced that the treaties, in the
form in which the Senate finally
considers them, will be in the best
interests of the United States as
well as Panama before I will vote
for it.
The last four Presidents-John
son. Nixon, Ford, and Carter?have
felt that these changes should be
included in a treaty that would be
fair to the interests of both Panama
and the United States.
What we have in Panama is a
ten-mile strip of land which divides
the country and which is inhabited
by Americans whose manicured
lawns and country club life is in
stark contrast to the living con
ditions of the Panamanians who
live outside the Canal Zone. The
natives there enter the Zone as
lowly paid servants of Americans or
for low-level jobs on the Canal.
They resent this disparity, just as
we would resent any such situation
in our country.
Report
To The
People
by Senator Robert Morgan
The fact is that we are in
untenable position there and we |
simply can't perpetuate a life style
created back in 1903 when we were >
able to use gunboat diplomacy on >
our neighbors to the south. |
History just doesn't stand still. >
We are faced with three options *
in Panama. We can pull out and ?*
leave a vacuum, which is unthink- ^
able; we can try to maintain our ;
present position and probably have
another Vietnam on our hands, or *
we can negotiate a sensible agree- ;
ment with Panama that will let us ;
use and defend the Canal while J
allowing the people of Panama the >
dignity we ourselves would demand ;
in our own land.
New treaties have been negoti- ;
ated. and overwhelmingly ratified *
by the Panamanians, despite oppo- ;C
sition by the Panamanian Commu- ;
nist Party. It now falls to the Senate i
to determine whether the treaties ?
preserve our own interest well ?
enough.
This issue, which concerns not :
just the treaties but our whole
worldwide foreign policy, is too
important to be solved by slogans ?'
or emotional outbursts. The whole
world is going to be watching as ^
America wrestles with its con- ?;
science on this difficult issue.
My record on national defense ;
will bear any scrutiny. I supported
the B-l bomber and want us to -?
keep our troops in Korea. I oppose i
resuming relationships with Cuba ^
and I don't want us to abandon the ?;
Chinese on Taiwan. I voted for a >
strong national defense budget. d
And I say as earnestly as I can
that we must make some changes in ;
Panama. It is the right and the just ;
course of action. The question now ^
is whether the new treaties strike ;
that difficult balance between our ??
strategic interest, and our interest ^
in being good neighbors. ;
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CLIFF BLUE . . .
People & Issues
MURPHY TO MANTEO...
Across our littered desk comes The
Cherokee Scout from Murphy and
The Coastland Times from
Manteo. In recent issues of the two
newspapers we scanned to note the
problems in the two counties more
than 500 miles apart.
On October 25 a "Governor's
Conference" was held in Murphy to
ferret out and determine the wants
and needs in that area. The
message came out pretty loud and
clear -- the completion of the
four-lane road from Murphy to
Asheville.
Cherokee Scout Editor Wally
Avett may have keynoted the
meeting when he said: "1 don't
think we want a Detroit here, or
another Gatlingburg, but I think
that reasonable industrial growth
and tourism will be encouraged by
completion of the four-lane be
tween here and Asheville. Go back
and tell the Governor we need the
new highway more than anything
else."
At the Manteo meeting, held one
week later, the term "balanced
economy" surfaced and re-surfaced
throughout the meeting. Nelson
Bortz contended that a year-round
population is a key to stable
economy and that emphasis should
be put on planning and develop
ment of year-round services and
facilities.
Jim Hardin felt that a good
community college would encour
age a steady Dare population,
saying. "Our young people are our
greatest asset, but they leave the
area for college and never return."
Dr. E. Elton Jones, an East
Carolina U niversity economist said:
"1 think Dare County is going to
get its problems solved whether the
state helps or not."
COURT CANDIDATES...
Associate Justices Dan K. Moore
and I. Beverly Lake will be retiring
from the North Carolina Supreme
Court at the end of their present
terms in January, 1979 due to the
mandatory retirement age for
Supreme Court justices.
It appears that their seats will
not go begging for the lack of
candidates from the State Appeals
Court across the street facing
capitol square.
Three of the nine Court of
Appeals Judges have already let it
be known that they will be candi
dates for an opening on |he State
Supreme Court.
Court of Appeals Judge David H.
Britt has been advising friends for
several weeks that he will be a
candidate for Justice Lake's seat on
the Supreme Court.
Appeals Court Judge Robert M. *.
Martin Jr. has been writing letters I;
to friends over the state saying that
he will be a candidate for one of the ~
seats being vacated on the Supreme '
Court, but did not say which. i
Chief Court of Appeals Judge
Walter E. Brock, a native of
Wadesboro, has let it be known
that he plans to run for one of the
seats being vacated on the Supreme
Court.
While Britt has staked out the
Lake seat. Brock and Martin have
not designated which of the two
seats being vacated they will seek.
With Britt staking the Lake seat to )
try for, it puts either Brock or
Martin having to choose which
Appeals Court colleague to chal
lenge ? not exactly an indeal
vantage-point from which to launch
a campaign.
The field is wide-open for other
judges, lawyers and laymen over
the state to run for Supreme Court
seats, and no doubt others will feel
the call between now and filing
deadline next year.
Birth dates of the Supreme Court
justices are: Chief Justice Susie ;
Sharp, July 7, 1907; Justice Lake,
August 29, 1906; Justice Moore,
April 2, 1906; Justice Joe Branch,
July 5, 1916; Justice Frank Hus
kins, Feb. 10,1911; Justice J.
William Copeland, June 16, 1914;
Justice James G. Exum, Jr., Sept.
14, 1935.
INFLATION. ..It looks like we >
have cancerous inflation, resemb- j
ling Topsy's growth in fairytale. *
The latest monthly report showed i
wholesale prices up 0.8 percent in >
October which translated into 9.6 ?:
percent annual rate, it being the-';
biggest rise in the wholesale market 1
since the- 1.1 percent increase in >
April. If President Carter has any \
hidden way to halt inflation he had >
better make use of it before the *
run-away train is out-of-sight. ?;
Practically ever major piece of 3
legislation enacted this year tends *
to fan the embers of inflation.
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