I think that we are in a position
where we must emphasize the
role that the black media plays,
the role that the media which is
not beholden to monopoly
corporations in this country plays.
Therefore, I think that our at
tempts to communicate with
people are going to have to come
about on that level.
Press coverage of demonstration
Let me give you an example of
what I mean. We had a massive
demonstration recently on July 4
in North Carolina. The black press
and such radio stations as Black
Mutual Network and Black Media
News did a really good job of
reporting what went on, but there
was virtually nothing in the
established media.
EMERALD: I remember I saw
ABC News that night. They had a
Collecting trash
earns discount
Trash can pay off if you like to
canoe on the Millrace.
When you're out canoeing,
collect the trash that you see
floating in the water or along the
sides and if you get enough, you'll
get a discount on the price of the
canoe rental.
This way of cleaning up the race
was just an idea earlier in the year.
It was put into actual practice
about six weeks ago.
Mai Fiese, Erb Memorial Union
recreation center manager, said
that the idea is to reduce the
rental fee on a canoe if the
canoeist brings in a reasonable
amount of trash that is obviously
picked up on the millrace. A
reasonable amount, he figures, is
about a shopping bag full. That
amount allows 26 cents reduction
an hour on the regular hourly rate
of $1.
The collected trash is left by the
Canoe House for pick-up by
University trucks, Fiese said.
The response of the money-sav
ing, environment-improving de
vise has been limited said Fiese.
But he expects that it will be more
successful! as returning students
start using the Millrace.
The canoeing season will close
around Nov. 1. Fiese explained.
During the season, the Canoe
House oeprates, in good weather,
from about noon until dark.
Interview reveals
Davis' opinions
20 second announcement on the
protest followed by a five-minute
feature on string bikinis. The
contradiction there made me so
mad that I wrote a nasty letter to
them. It seems like a pretty typical
example of the sort of thing that
goes on.
The first chapter of Justice in the
Round (a book on Davis' trial) was
saying that to a certain extent the
problem is caused by the fact that
in a political trial the press just
takes for granted that what is to
be covered is the specific charges,
and leaves out the whole context,
such as why there is a trial in the
first place and things such as that.
Actually what I'm asking is: do
you think a lot of the distortion,
even by "liberal" newspapers is
intentional, or is it just how the
press is used to operating?
DAVIS: I know for a fact that
many times reporters who un
derstood the dynamics of that
trial-understood that it was a
political trial, reporters who wrote
relatively good stories about the
trial as a whole and the specific
details, found themselves in a
situation where the substantive
material in their articles would be
cut out.
EMERALD: By their editors?
DAVIS: Precisely, precisely. So
that means in my opinion that
often the press is serving a very
special function in relationship to
the status quo in this country and
anything which disturbs that they
don't like to cover.
Philosophical views
EMERALD: Let me turn to
another subject. This may seem
like an absurd question —tell me if
you think it is.
Who is Angela Daivs?
Nadelson's biography of you
states that on the first day of the
existentialism class you taught at
UCLA, you said that man surges
into the world and defines
himself. Do you see what you are
doing in those terms?
DAVIS: I'm sorry, but I don't
even recall that. I'm positive that
Regina Nadelson wasn't present
at the first meeting of my course
on existentialism.
The class had to do with an
analysis of certain texts. That
quote as I recall was from a text
by Sartre. We were discussing
that within the context of trying to
understand Sartre's thought and
then analyze it with respect to the
way—well, I'm not an existen
tialist, so I have criticisms of that
particular version of philosophy.
EMERALD: I didn't know if you
were or weren't, uh...?(laughter.)
DAVIS: I'm a Marxist-Leninist
which means I subscribe to
historical and dialectical
materialism as the philosophical
understanding of the world.
EMERALD: Maybe you can
explain that a little bit. Is there a
way to define that fairly concisely
that doesn't kill the whole idea?
(More laughter.)
DAVIS: All it means is that we
understand that history is
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