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Summer Session Kansan Friday, June 26, 1950
People Turn from TV
The strike of the typographers union in Kansas City has lead to some interesting revelations in regard to communication media.
With the advent of television some years ago a presupposition was popular that the printed media was not long for this world. The television news forecast was supposedly far superior to anything the printed media had to offer.
And indeed, the newspapers were concerned about their readership. How could they hope to compete with a media that not only reported incidents, but in many cases actually took the viewer to where the news was "breaking."
Of course the obvious, but then obscure, reason that papers are able to compete is because of two factors—depth and time. A newspaper gives not only the "what," but the "why." This last is called interpretation and has given rise to the journalistic school of interpretative reporting.
Due to a stringent time factor that is not flexible, TV must adapt all news to a strict schedule. Obviously content must suffer—there is not enough time to background the news.
The newspaper is not as concerned with time. True, space is a problem, but major stories receive the depth they deserve. And the reader can take all the time he wants to absorb elements of the story he finds interesting.
The proof of these facts are obvious in regard to the Kansas City strike. The TV stations were forced to lengthen and supplement their broadcasts in an attempt to give the reader depth and time in absorbing the news.
One station has even gone as far as to print their own "wildcat" paper in order to help keep the public informed.
The public, in order to saturate their craving for the printed word, are emptying the news stands and book stores of out-of-town papers and news magazines.
The one-eyed monster might offer entertainment, of sorts, and a negligible factor of timeliness of news—but the public still demands the printed word. Ray Miller
Not as Judge or Jury
The public is prone to forget the main idea behind news reporting as a service. When a reporter for a newspaper attends a trial in court, it is to get the essential facts and report them fairly and impartially. When he attends a political speaking he may be for the other candidate, but if he is a good newspaper man he will give a fair and unbiased account in print.
That is exactly what he is paid for; it is what
subscribers expect when they contract with the paper to serve as their representative in obtaining news of public interest.
"Objectivity" is the two-dollar name for it. Fairness is another; truth is a still better one—if it's the whole truth. The philosopher said it in concise fashion—"With or without offense to friends or foes—I sketch the world exactly as it goes." —Shelby (Ky.) News
Daily Crossword
ACROSS
1 They try greetings.
2 Press on.
3 Atom bomb danger.
4 Tennyson heroine.
5 Camera attachment.
6 Miss Young of TV.
7 Brevet: Abbr.
8 Method of serving chicken:
9 3 words.
10 Japanese girdle.
11 Ceremonies.
12 Meerschaum.
13 Wine vessels.
14 High cards.
15 Bicycling mishap.
16 Observatory at Chicago U.
17 Locomotion for Junior.
18 Rolled iron rod.
19 Anastasia's father.
20 Cried out.
21 Boy Scout groupa.
22 Wore: 2 words.
23 Bounders.
24 Where Provo is.
48 Dwellers in 47
Aeros.
49 Game fish.
50 Up and about.
51 Coin of Israel.
52 Fur-bearing
rodent.
54 Pyrite.
55 Happy-looking
folk.
57 Chapfallen.
59 Maroon.
60 Gimcracks.
61 Track events.
62 Actor Welles.
DOWN
1 Reindeer-on-roof sound.
2 Jungfrau, for one.
3 Rosters.
4 Illegal fight.
5 Leather thongs.
6 Copter landing field.
7 Only.
8 Famous puppeteer.
9 Draw.
10 Relating to insects.
11 Tennis serve that falls short; 2 words.
12 Actress Nanette.
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13 Counsel.
13 Sometimes bridal path.
14 Neotsman's garment.
15 About 40,000
Northerners.
16 Incomustible.
17 Glacial ridges.
18 Blemish.
19 Poetic black.
20 Adherents of:
Suffix.
21 Play periods in school.
22 Close friends.
23 County in Oklahoma.
24 Heroine of an "old song."
25 Black.
26 Overstuffed footstock.
27 Coupled.
28 Strips.
29 El -----
30 Marcelled.
30 Mountain in Greece.
32 Enchanted -------- New Mexico.
33 Hebrew lyre.
34 Mae West role.
35 Bustling confusion.
Letters
In the June 12 issue of the Summer Session Kansan you stated that KU Track Coach Bill Easton was leaving for Malaya to "conduct track and field clinics for the State Department for nine weeks."
American policies in South East Asia have been severely criticized for some time, but this is the first admission by the State Department that they're "on the run."
Jack Fenton Lawrence senior
Today, because of the fear of destruction, people generally are not planning a tomorrow for the growing generation.
Editor:
In the field of education there are many facts it is well to know, but facts themselves are not the most important things that contribute to making a living and knowing how to use ones leisure time so as to get the most enjoyment out of it.
The most important things are the realization that one has to learn how to understand those about him in everyday living. Here faith that things will work out if we strive to go on, combined with active hope that all concerned want to learn to respect the liberty, opinion of others, vision of the evolutionary process of people who want to live a better "Way of Life" in a peace economy.
A peace economy does not mean that ideological and economic competition between nations will not continue forever, for this is an area where competition is expected. To me Eternal Life is the "way of life" that one passes on to another as we pass one another on the world stage of life.
Henry Cleaver Jr.
909 Tenn., Lawrence
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PETER STUYVESANT AND HIS NEW YORK, by Henry H. Kessler and EUGene Rachlis, Random House, $4.75.
Here is a book which, unfortunately, seems restricted to what the news magazines might call "early New York buffs" (why "buffs"?) It's pretty special. It was written by a journalist who has been associated chiefly with slick magazines, and a doctor who became interested in Stuyvesant because Stuyvesant was an amputee.
Kessler and Rachlis write that they hope their book will be neither an Irving-style "History of New York" or a Maxwell Anderson-style "Nickierbocker Holiday." Their aim is to bring some truth into the variegated legends that we associate with old New York. This reader prefers the legends.
Stuyvesant was a martinet, a member of the Dutch Reformed Church who sounds as unyielding as such modern-day Calvinists as Malan and Strijdom of South Africa. No comic character, that is, no Walter Huston singing "September Song." He and the people of his colony took reprisals against the Indians of Manhattan, from whom Peter Minuit had bought the island a few years before. And the Indians followed with their own bloody reprisals.
Stuyvesant also worked, as readily as the Puritan leaders up the coast in Massachusetts, to drive free-thinkers and heretics from the colony, the Jews, the Quakers. He engaged in comic warfare with the Swedes, who were determined to create a New Sweden in the Delaware-Pennsylvania country, and who left almost nothing to the American heritage.
But "Peter Stuyvesant and His New York" is not devoid of interest. This was Little Old New York, the colony on the Hudson, the land into which the Englishman Henry Hudson had sailed with the Half-Moon earlier in the century. This was the colony of long, horizontal houses, and "rat-tooting" on the gables, of neat, small gardens, of merchants as busy making money and living by the ethic of Calvin as those in Massachusetts.
It was the colony which hoped to perpetuate Dutch-style feudalism in America, with its patronships, but which succeeded with only one, that known as Rensselaerswyck.
Considerable scholarship and documentation have gone into this book, and it is far from a wasted effort. It, unfortunately, does not seem likely to be the definitive study of Peter Stuyvesant and New Amsterdam. What does it need? Well, perhaps along with the many names (and confusing details) a bit of Rip Van Winkle and Ichabod Crane, a headless horseman on a stormy night, little men rolling their ninepins in the Caskill dells, and old Peter philosophically reflecting how "the days dwindle down, to a precious few..."
THE DAY OF THE LOCUST. by Nathanael West. Bantam. 35 cents.
A couple of years ago the cult of the rediscovery of Nathanael West was in full flower, and some other forgotten hero of the lost generation will likely be re-discovered soon. Meanwhile, this book, possibly the best about Hollywood manners and morals, that has appeared (though this writer leans toward Evelyn Waugh's "The loved One") goes on and on. In the Bantam Classics series it gets a kind of Dunean Hines seal of approval. It didn't need it. Cult or not it is likely to endure, as Fitzgerald and Sherwood Anderson seem to be enduring.
—CMP
BRAVE NEW WORLD, by Aldous Huxley. Bantam, 35 cents
Western Civilization students at KU (and there are a lot of them) know about "Brave New World." First published in 1932, it was revived in the postwar period and now stands high with many, be they science fiction enthusiasts or students of social criticism. Like "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and "Looking Backward" it has dual significance to us. This reader can never forget the thrill of first encountering this book and its biting humor and touches of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. And "A.F.—After Ford," the time designation that signifies a world run on assembly line concepts.
-CMP
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