Busch rswpinUi presents a contribution to officials of the
Naiaaal Hack Caucus of State Legislators (NBCSL) at the
gnapTs 14th annual conference recently hi St. Thomas,
Virgin Wands Accepting thu ceatributien m behalf ef tha
415-number group (Ml te right), an: Stall Rap. Calvin
Smyra af GeorglaTlanner caucus sacntary; Cdanda State
Sanatar Ragis F. Graft, caucus president; and Pannsylvanla
State Rap. DavM P. Rtchardsan, farmer caucus president.
Friends Of The Gallery To Host
Buffet Dance in McKimmon Center
North Carolina State University’s
Friends of the Gallery will host its
1901 gala on April 6 from 7 p.m. to
midnight at the Jane S. McKimmon
Lindsay Newsom at 755-1525.
McKinney said FOG is seeking cor
porate sponsors for the gala to make
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it possible for all receipts to go to the
art acquisitions and art education
Drograms at NCSU. *
NEA VIEWPOINT gg
Media’s abortion bias is confirmed
By William A. Rusher
Conservative critics of the liberal
bias in our media are understandably
annoyed by the refusal of the media’s
defenders to admit that the bias ex
ists. The most careful statistical dem
onstrations roll off them like water
off the proverbial duck’s back. What
can explain such behavior, if not a
stubborn and deliberate determina
tion to ignore the plain truth?
There is, as it happens, another ex
planation, though it only very partial
ly excuses such conduct. In the give
and take of political controversy, we
quickly become almost immune to
any points that may be made by the
other side, or even by individuals on
our own side whom we do not regard
as authoritative. We grow accus
tomed, in other words, to accepting
information only from certain pre-ap
proved sources.
This is as true of conservatives as it
is of liberals. In 1961-64, I faithfully
reported to the editors of National
Review, of which I was then publish
er, the growing strength of the Draft
Goldwater movement, with whose
leaders I was in close touch. The edi
tors always heard me out, and smiled
encouragingly; but The New York
Times, from which they were accus
tomed to getting their hard news,
hadn’t reported the surprising
strength of the Goldwater movement
yet, and.the editors clearly thought I
was exaggerating. When the Times fi
nally began reporting the facts, early
in 1964, the National Review editors
stared at me as if they had never seen
me before. As, of course, in a sense,
they hadn’t.
That is why David Shaw’s four-part
series of articles in the Los Angeles
Times last month, on the blatant pro
abortion bias of the media in covering
that huge controversy, is so Impor
tant. Shaw is the paper’s “media re
porter,’’ and a good one. More impor
tant still, he is personally a liberal;
or at least on good enough terms with
the liberals to command their atten
tion. As with E.F. Hutton, when Shaw
talks, liberals listen.
I haven’t the space here to summa
rize, or even effectively sample,
Shaw’s articles, but free copies of
them can be obtained simply by writ
ing: L.A. Times Public Relations,
Times Mirror Square, Los Angeles,
CA 90053. They are quite simply dev
astating, and they establish beyond
any doubt whatever that the media’s
coverage of the abortion controversy
is as twisted as a narwhal’s tusk.
Shaw demonstrates that language
itself is used selectively to favor the
pro-abortion movement; that photo
graphs favorable to the anti-abortion
cause are routinely suppressed; and
that police and prosecutorial harass
ment of anti-abortion protesters is of
ten not reported at all. He has even
found and quoted individual editors
and reporters who are personally un
easy over these things.
To all of which a conservative may
be tempted to reply bitterly, "And
what else is new, Mrs. Nussbaum?"
But we ought not to be quite socyni
> cal. Shaw has, however belatedly, dis
covered and exposed one thoroughly
gross example of media misbehavior,
and done with it the one thing conser
vatives cannot do: Force the liberals
to pay attention. I would not be at all
surprised if at least a few liberal
newspaper and TV editors instituted
some reforms in their coverage of the
abortion controversy as a result.
The Job of conservatives is to try to
persuade Shaw, and other fair-minded
liberals, that the media’s handling of
the abortion controversy is not an ex
ception that proves the rule, but con
forms to the rule itself: In other
words, that the media’s coverage of
American politics In general is every
bit as biased and tendentious as their
slanted reportage of the abortion
controversy.
Gradually, it seems to me, we are
making headway on this important
front. The scandalous truth about the
liberal bias in the vast output of
America’s national journalism, both
Kt and electronic, cannot and won’t
mored forever.
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Hie FOG gala will feature a
“creative black-tie,” champagne buf
fet dance with music by Bo Thorpe’s
orchestra.
FOG is a non-profit, university
affiliated organization formed to
stimulate interest in the visual arts
and to support the Visual Arts Pro
grams at NCSU.
Mimi M. McKinney and Mary Lib
Wood, gala committee co-chairs, say
tickets for the event are still
available but interested persons
should purchase them soon.
McKinney said FOG expects to
raise more than $50,000 through the
gala for the NCSU arts education pro
grams, which will be expanded with
the opening in 1992 of a new galleries
addition to the University Student
Center.
The first FOG gala in 1989 attracted
some 000 and raised more than
$43,000 for art acquisitions, McKin
ney sakl. She said the event won a Na
tional Association of Balloon Artists
Academy Award for the creative use
of balloons, liquid lights and mylar.
"The decorations will be just as
fabulous this year,” McKinney said.
Tickets for the events are $150 a
couple, $75 for a single, or $600 for a
table of eight. McKinney said half the
coat of the tickets will be tax
deductible. Persons interested in
making reservations should call
Nun Leaves Land
To Two Cousins
And Two Orders
The late Sister Thea Bowman, a
prominent nun who dedicated her life
to spreading the Gospel and further
ing the cause of women and blacks in
the Roman Catholic Church, left her
estate to two of her cousins and two
religious orders
Sister Bowman, also a popular lec
turer, poet, and singer, was highly
regarded for her pioneering efforts in
getting black Catholics to express
their cultural heritage in the church.
She was 52 years old when she died in
April 1M0 of breast cancer.
She was the only black member of
the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual
Adoration and served as director of
intercultural awareness of the
Jackson (Miss.) Diocese. In 1968, she
released an album titled “Sister
Thea: Songs of My People,” featur
ing IS Made spirituals.
In her last will and testament,
dated April 22, 1965 (the same year
she was diagnosed with breast
cancer), the late nun stipulated, “I do
hereby give and devise the house and
lot whore my mother and father lived
and which Is located at 136 Hill St.,
Canton, Miss., to Carl Bowman and
Sallye Bowman of Memphis, Tenn.,”
her cousin*.
In addition, she gave “all tne
balance, remainder and residue of
my estate and property, real and per
sonal and of whatsoever nature and
kind wheresoever located, as follows,
to wit: a) one-third thereof, to St.
Reoe Convent, Inc., 912 Market St.,
LaCroase, Wls., 54601; and b) one
third thereof, to the aforesaid Carl
Bowman and Sallye Bowman... and
c) one-third thereof to Franciscan
Sisters of Perpetual Adoration
Human Development Fund or other
Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual
Adoration projects on behalf of the
materially poor.”
She also named Canton Exchange
as executor of her estate and
authorised them to “reimburse to
Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual
Adoration... from my estate all
medical and/or custodial expenses, If
any, which may have been expended
or incurred by it in my behalf and for
which it has not been reimbursed.”
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