MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEOFORD. OREGON
SUNDAY. MAY 19. 1963
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PROPOSED FREEWAY ROUTE This map shows the
route oJ the proposed Interstate S Freeway over the Siski
yous. Following the present Highway 99 to the intersection
of the old Highway 99, the freeway would then be con
structed on a new right of way, providing a better grade,
and in some places a two-level highway. A hearing on the
freeway to the California state line was held here last
week. Construction is now under way on the freeway from
the South Ashland interchange to Wall Creek, at left of
map.
Harold Friend Gets
Tuition Scholarship
Harold Friend, son of Mr.
and ?"rs. M. C. Friend, 252
DcBarr ave., hes been noti
fied by the state scholarship
committee that h r re' '
ed a full tuition scholarship
for 1963-64 at Southern Ore
gon college for outstanding
achievement in elementary
education.
The student was recently
selected for Theta Delta Phi.
men's scholastic fraternity at
the college.
Friend, a senior in elemen
tary education, is one of the
students at the collcr in the
fi-e-year -dueati'i program.
During the fifth year, the ma
jority of the time will be spent
in practice teaching for which
he will receive graduate
credit.
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On the Air
By ELEANOR WIESE
TV Guide magazine this
week has done the unexpect
ed - criticized television news
aim public affairs depart
ments. In "Television: America's
Timid Giant," Edith Efron of
the magazine's New York Bu
reau accuses the networks of
being almost mute on many
great issues of the day not be
cause of any official regula
tions or censorship, but be
cause of what she calls a
shocking self-imposed silence.
TV network news depart
ments are afraid to cover cer
tain controversial areas of na
tional affairs, afraid of polit
ical harassment.
Miss Efron bases her accu
sation on a study of news and
public affairs programs dur
ing the three-year period
I960, 1961 and 1962. and on
personal interviews with TV
newsmen and producers, TV
critics, and magazine and
newspaper editors. She is not
crticizing the day-to-day hard
news broadcasts but the news
specials and documentaries.
The television newsmen
pretty well agree the taboo
areas in the coverage of na
tional affairs include any cov
erage that might air criticism
of Government, Big Business,
unions and labor or the big
pressure groups.
Howard K. Smith, ABC
news commentator, was quo
ted as angrily indicting the
and declaring "You get Into
trouble if you criticize Big
Business. The roof falls in if
you criticize Congress, and
were getting Increasingly
cautious of criticizing the Ad
ministration. The pressures
are getting worse."
From a total of 1580 sub
jects covered in the three
years studied, Miss Efron has
found 421 were foreign cover
age, 695 were U.S. domestic
issues, and 464 were assorted
subjects from Shakespeare to
Miss America.
There was a clear pattern
to the foreign coverage. The
cameras were following the
critical news. There were 30
shows on Germany, 30 shows
on Cuba, 11 shows on Alger
la, etc.
But the pattern of the U.S
coverage was not so clear
Some crtical news areas were
intensively covered and some
almost Ignored.
According to reporter Ef
ron, "Almost 80 per cent of
the 695 shows on domestic
subjects are concentrated
five areas: the President (236
shows), elections (128 shows),
space (108 shows), arms and
disarmament (42 shows) and
racial conflict (30 shows).
mat leit only 20 per cent
of the programs to cover the
major news areas of Govern
ment, business and lauor dur
ing what Miss bfron terms
were three stormy years
when "... there were major
Congressional i n vestigatiuns
into Big business ana labor
unions. Executives or major
industrial firms were sent to
jail under the anti-trust acts.
Strikes repeatedly imperiled
national defense. Congress
came under attack for its
methods of operation and the
privileges of its members. Su
preme Court decisions pro
voked strong opposition from
different sectors of the pop
ulation , . , Major political
scandals broke over some of
the highest-placed heads in
Washington. A severe stock-
market collapse created vio
lent repercussions in the bus!
ncss community."
Yet television news docu
mentaries with a few highly
publicized exceptions, avoid
ed such controversial sub'
jeets preferring to produce
strong dramatic documentar
ies on "high-powered politi
cal and ideological issues in
foreign landc."
As New York Times critic
Jack Gould puts it: "The net
works arc courageous abroad
and cowards In Washington."
What is the television In
dustry afraid of?
According to one CBS pro
ducer, the networks don't
want to antagonize anyone
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"The ad agencies panic If you
take off against Big Business.
In the area of labor, the net
works themselves don't want
to rock the boat. Thcy"re Big
Business, and Big Business
does not antagonize Big La
bor. As for criticism of Gov
ernment, the nets operate by
Government permission.
hey're not going to antag
onize the Administration.
Some of the network execu
tives and newsmen blame the
trouble on pressure groups.
They're so organized," says
Chct Huntley, "that they can
create real havoc within a
network. After some contro
versial stories, you've got six
weeks of absolute agony
ahead of you, with yelling
and meetings and endless cor
respondence, and lawyers and
suits, and shipping scrips back
and forth to the FCC. It's real
agony.1'
Different pressures email-
ating from Washington ex
plain some of the fear. The
FCC, which licenses stations
and networks, is a political
entity, run by political ap
pointees. Behind them Is Con
gress, a political body which
can change the laws affecting
the networks. Antagonizing
influential members of the
Commission or Congress
could mean unfavorable regulations.
This awareness of potential
political danger automatically
operates to inhibit in-depth
television coverage of nation
al affairs.
How to solve this problem
of what Miss Efron calls "a
censored medium (of com
mutation) without a censor"
will not be easy. In fact not
one of the men Interviewed
by reporter Efron had a solution.
But the problem should be
solved. News coverage by this
mass media giant should be as
comprehensive, critical and
unafraid as news coverage by
the less timid media - maga
zines and newspapers.
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MEET THE PRESS. 6 p.m.
Sunday KMED-TV. Muham
mad Zafrulla Khan of Pakis
tan, president of the current
session of the UN General
Assemble. Is questioned.
SHOW OF THE WEEK, 10
p.m. Sunday KMED-TV. Tues
day Weld and Alfred DraKe
star in "The lettcnd of Lylart
Clare," a drama of eerie sus
pense based on the legend of
the dibbuk, in which tne spir
it of a dead person possess
es a living Body ana acts
through It.
PEOPLE, PLANTS AND
GEOGRAPHY, 6:40 p.m. Mon
day KMED-TV. The Mcdford
curriculum center recently
acquired this nature study
film produced by Odd BJerkc,
wilderness expert. The animal
photography is outstanding.
Position Explained
By James Redden
Representative James A.
Redden (D-Medford) last week
explained why he was one of
three legislators voting against
HB 1129. relating to civil com
mitment of sex offenders.
Redden said, "all psychiatric
testimony indicated that, but
for a minute percentage ol
those committed would be, in
effect, a life term because of
the low rate of cure. This
amounts to a life sentence
without the traditional protec
tion afforded the accused.
Redden pointed out that un
der the bill certain evidence,
now considered irrcvclant and
prejudicial, would be admissi
ble, and further that the bur
den of proof would not be
the traditional burden of "be-
vond a reasonable doubt.
A member of the special
sub-committee appointed to
amend the original bill, Red
den slated that new safe
guards were provided for the
accused, but that even now
the bill Is dangerous, expen
sive, and will solve nothing
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