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University Daily Kansan, February 11, 1983
Journalist discusses right of expression
By SALLY JOY OMUNDSON Staff Reporter
Dramatic advances in technology have increased the need for reliable public information but have threatened journalistic freedom around the world, Lee Hills, this year's William Allen White Award winner, said yesterday.
Hills, former president of Knight-Ridder Newspapers Inc., said, "Totalitarian regimes have the new technology as a short cut to our civilian control of power," but I predict that this evil gospel will not prevail by 1848 or any other year soon.
The award, which was given at a luncheon marking the 115th anniversary of White's birth, is given to a journalist who exemplifies White's ideals in service to his profession and his community.
"Journalistic principles don't get any more basic than defending freedom of expression, as William Allen White understood so well.
HILLS, IN ACCEPTING his award, said, "The world that William Allen White wrote about so eloquently seemed a lot simpler.
"The Soviet bloc and parts of the Third World subscribe to exactly the opposite belief—a belief that the press should be an arm of government and the control of information and ideas is the tool to social and economic development."
It is important to realize, he said, that there still is the ongoing worldwide fight over freedom of expression 60 years after White won a Pulitzer Prize for his editorial "To an Anxious Person," and that he won't attempt his attempts to suppress expression
Hills, 76, was the first person outside he Knight family to become president
IN 1974, HE orchestrated a merger with Ridder Publications, creating the largest circulation of any newspaper him in the nation.
While working with the Detroit Free Press, a Knight-Ridder paper, Hills won a Pulitzer Prize in 1956 for distinguished local reporting for his coverage of the United Auto Workers
strike that resulted in a guaranteed annual wage.
David Walker, president of the William Allen White Foundation, said Hills was a wonderfully gentle man who was the only newspaper editor to be president of four major journalism societies.
Hills began his newspaper career at the age of 14 while working at the weekly News-Advocate in Price, Utah, where he typed, typeset and office sweeper
"We have to get a better grip on how we influence events," he said. "We cannot afford the luxury of arguing, as some do, that we cover the news as we could not be held accountable for what happens as a result of that coverage."
AT THE HEART of the global fight over freedom of expression is the incredible advance in communications, he said.
A recent survey indicated that there was no freedom of expression in 55 percent of all countries, and 22 percent of them were free to express partial freedom of expression, he said.
Hills said that eight Latin American countries now licensed their journalists, and several other nations in the region, to write about violence and violence to control expression
"Despite this, we in the West have a responsibility to report the developing world with balance and sensitivity, which we do not always do," he said.
"TOO OFTEN, THE reporting is condescending and superficial, without understanding of the local traditions, or understanding tradition to those who favor restrictions.
"We in the West are not trying to shove our concept of freedom down anybody's throat, but we believe our ideas have a right to be heard," he said.
During the luncheon, the White foundation also gave the Burton W. Marvin News Enterprise Award to Jeff Collins, a former Lawrence Journal-World reporter, for his six stories about the adverse effects on needy families from the Reagan administration's new rules on welfare.
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Josef Skovcrecky, an expatriot writer and publisher in the Czech emigrate community, said last night in the Council Room of the Kansas Union that even though he is a literary man and not a politician he must keep in touch with the politics of his oppressive regime.
Czech speaker says America not appreciative of freedoms
When Josef Skovrekny was 14 years old, two influences made their mark on him. The French movie *Miracle Worker*
In last night's speech to about 60 people at the Karsas Union's Council Room, Skovecky dramatized the impact that those two influences had on the group, which is sponsored by Dialogues in East West Affairs, a graduate student group.
He said the addiction has lasted from the days of his youth spent playing the saxophone with his hometown buddies through years of playing the piano.
Skovreky became a jazz fan when he bought his first Chic Webb record.
But when Skovreky fell in love with jazz, the Nazis were occupying his
native Czechoslovakia
He said Americans took their free-doms for granted. In Czechoslovakia and other communist countries, he said, people were arrested for simply smuggling banned books. He said that Americans do not know about book banning and know even less of having to smuggle books.
After his novel "The Cowards" was banned and the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, Skovkevych and his wife emigrated to Canada, where they established SIXTY-EIGHT Publishers, the largest Czech publishing house in Europe, and Czechoslovakia. In 12 years they have published more than 130 original Czech works.
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A House Ways and Means subcommittee Tuesday recommended that the state's program of poultry and meat inspection be continued. The state also approved a Livestock Committee last week voted to increase the program.
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Senate President Ross Doyen, R-Coronado, and State Dan. Dan Thiessen, R-Independence, introduced a bill that would reimpose a tax on income-generating bank accounts, stocks, notes and bonds.
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Doyen said he had decided to introduce the bill because of attempts by some lawmakers to raise property taxes on farm machinery.
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