Time squandering preferred
By Lucien Coleman
The book was on sale for half
price. It was one of those "change
your life through time
management" astonishers. The
sub-title was "How to Get More
Done in Less Time."
What I want to know is,
whoever decided that getting more
done in less time was so desirable
in the first place? What's wrong
with getting less done in more
time?
If that sounds like a stupid ques
tion, it's probably because you and
1 have been so brainwashed into
Things That Matter
believing that more is invariably
better than less, and fast is always
better than slow. Who says so?
Maybe it's-just as important to en
joy yourself along the way as it is
to get more done quicker.
Let me give you an example. 1
changed jobs, moving to a dif
ferent state, about six months ago.
Back where I used to work, one of
the guys was a veritable paragon of
efficiency. He was a stickler for
managing his time. Every minute
of every day. He even carried a
clipboard around, with his
schedule broken down into 15
minute intervals. If you stopped
him in the hall, he'd glance ner
vously at his clipboard schedule, as
though to say, "Sorry, 1 don't
have a personal conversation
scheduled for his hour."
Let those who want to fidget
away at conserving time do so. It's
a nice hobby. As for me, I'd rather
squander it on worthwhile things,
like having coffee with shiftless
friends.
Opinions
Liberal media is telling
only one side of a story
By Richard A. Viguerie
The week after the 1980 election,
I was invited to be a guest at a
breakfast held for some of the
leading journalists in Washington.
A conservative tide had swept
Democrats out of the Senate and
put Ronald Reagan in the White
House, and the members of the
news media wanted to know what
happened. They asked: why didn't
we see it coming?
I told them: You didn't see it
coming, but we've been telling you
about it for a long time; you just
didn't listen.
That's often the way it is, bet
ween conservatives and the na
tional news media. The two groups
have little in common, and that
fact is reflected in the way the news
covers conservative values.
On abortion, big business, na
tional defense, taxes, and other
issues, the conservative position is
habitually mis-reported, and the
people get only one side.
Bias in the news media rarely
stems from a conscious desire to
distort the news. Instead, it is the
result of ignorance. Most national
reporters don't know what conser
vatives think because they have lit
tle contact with conservatives. But
there is plenty of contact with
liberals.
There are many liberal political
activists who have joined
prestigious news organizations.
Most of them, like Ken Bode of
NBC News (a former aide to Mor
ris Udall) and Jeff Greenfield of
ABC News (a former aide to John
Lindsay and Robert Kennedy), do
a good job.
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The problem is not that there are
liberals in the news media. The
problem is that persons who hold
traditional values are usually ex
cluded from newsrooms in the
same way that blacks and women
were once excluded: editors and
producers tend to hire and pro
mote people like themselves.
The result is that basically the
same attitudes are held by more
than four-fifths of the most in
fluential people in the news
business. According to a 1980
survey of the decision-makers in
our major national media, 91%
voted for LBJ, 87% for Hum
phrey, 81% for McGovern, and
81% for Carter (in 1976). The pic
ture is even worse among future
journalists. A similar study of
students at the nation's leading
journalism school showed that
85% called themselves liberals;
59% voted for Carter in 1980, 29%
for Anderson, and only four% for
Reagan.
Although there are very few
identifiable conservatives in im
portant positions in the major
media, there are plenty of persons
who have worked for liberals.
Consider these examples from the
electronic media alone:
John Kennedy's press secretary
is now chief diplomatic correspon
dent for ABC News. Lyndon
Johnson's press secretary is now
the top commentator for CBS
News. George McGovern's press
secretary is now executive pro
ducer of ABC's evening newscast.
Ted Kennedy's administrative
assistant is now vice president of
ABC News. The communications
director for the Democratic Na
tional Committee (DNC) is now
political assignment editor for
ABC; her husband is political
director for CBS. The deputy com
munications director at DNC is
now a researcher in the political
unit of ABC News.
How many conservatives are
given the chance to report the news
in the nation's top media? Occa
sionally conservatives like Pat
Buchanan will be hired as "opi
nion journalists," but they are
almost never hired for positions
that involve making judgments on
what is and is not newsworthy.
In fact, when a person
associated With a non-liberal politi
cian is hired, it causes an uproar.
When CBS hired Diane Sawyer,
Dan Rather complained because
she had helped Richard Nixon
write his memoirs. Wh?n The New
York Times hired former Nixon
staffer William Safire as a colum
nist, there were numerous com
plaints from other Times writers. 1
know of no instance in which
reporters complained because a
new staff member was too liberal.
Letters To The Editor
Candidates should
coordinate calls
to fit commercials
Dear editor:
As everybody with a telephone
knows, a recent development in
political campaigning is the phone
bank.
A candidate lines up hundreds,
sometimes thousands, of people to
sit at phones and call voters during
the evening hours asking them to
vote for him, or get out to a
caucus, or donate some money.
This seems to work, although I
don't know why, unless there are
lots of people out there lonesome
for a telephone call. I have never
been that lonesome.
With eight candidates running
for the Democratic nomination for
President, each with his own
phone bank, you can see some peo
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One woman in New Hampshire
said she was getting five or six calls
every night.
1 have never run for office, nor
have 1 ever been indicted, but 1 got
to wondering which phone bank
works best. If 1 were running, I'd
instruct my phone bank people to
be sure to call only during com
mercials. Nothing will make more
people mad oi lose more votes
than having their phone ring dur
ing a gripping TV drama.
Obviously with eight phone
bank candidates, there aren't
enough commericals to go around,
which opens up an unfairness
situation which I have no solution
for.
The TV stations do their best,
but you can cram just so many
toothpaste and headache remedy
ads into one hour's program.
If the phone bank idea continues
to spread and is taken up by all
congressmen, governors, state
legislators, county officials and a
justice of the peace here and there,
there'll be more phones left off the
hook than the phone company can
handle.
Yours faithfully,
J.A.
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