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Thursdav. October 18, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Many Sieves Filter Mideast News
By C. C. CALDWELL
BY C. C. CALDWELL
Kansas Staff Recorder
Whose news of the Arab-Iraeli war should you believe? What factors have rendered some Mideast reports as credible as American "body counts" from Vietnam?
According to John Waterbury, an associate of the American Universities Field Staff from Cairo, neither has access for maximum objectivity in news reporting.
"The Israelis have mastered manipulation of the news in times of crisis," Waterbury said in an interview. He added that reports originated in Egypt also are
John Waterbury
colored as a result of the bureaucracy there and the lack of incentives for bureaucrats' operations
Official Arab reporting, Waterbury ob-
served the crash. It was visible in the cor-
nial cause that it was not a bomb.
However, he said, "In the working relationship with the press (in Cairo), I don't think there's been much improvement."
AS WATERBURY explained it, the Israeli has a firm grasp on Western, particularly American, demands for news, but the Arabs do not.
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Waterbury cited a radio news report he had heard yesterday afternoon as an example of Israeli techniques in handling news.
In that report, an American commentator had quoted the Israeli state radio's top commentator, Maj. Gen. Haim Herzog, as stating that the entire conflict had been masterminded by the Soviet Union, that the plan had on a basis with the Soviets all had relations between the Soviets and Syria and Egypt were merely subterfuge.
"The Soviet-Egyptian falling out is real," Waterbury said, adding that Herzog's "dropping that nugget" was a means of reaching certain constituencies around the
THE POINT OF the technique in this case was to create the image that the current conflict is just another example of "the old Soviet game," Waterbury said.
In Egypt, Waterbury said, newsmen face problems with bureaucracy nonchalance, limited communications equipment and communications facilities that do exist.
In addition, some American correspondents working out of the Middle East have become disenchanted with what Waterbury did for the U.S. government that their copy at their home offices here.
In his opinion, the French newspaper Le Monde and the Christian Science Monitor here both offer excellent coverage of the event. In particular, it has been in the Monitor has declined in recent times.
VFT IN SPITE of the difficulties encountered because of manipulation, bureaural bumbling and heavy-handed editing, Waterbury said, content analyses of long-term Midest news coverage have not revealed much "systematic bias."
He observed that the results of such an analysis might be different if the study were conducted by a different group.
Their understanding of U.S. news needs
The Egyptians still see the United States as holding the key to peace in the Mideast, Waterbury said, and they believe the war will continue as a deliverable move to create a crisis.
ausde, the Egyptians see the U.S. attitude on
indifference. Waterbury said, "We genuinely
indifference."
The Egyptian perception suggests that U.S.Soviet detente is a threat to their basic security. The United Nations are convinced that the United States and the Soviet Union have an agreement to stay out of the conflict; they see the status-quo of superpowers as imical to Arab goals.
the Mideast had not expected the current military conflict.
Waterbury said he and his associates in
Given the Egyptian perception of the United States' positions on Middle Eastern questions, he said, the expectation was that President Anwar Sadat would attempt to manipulate oil and hard currency reserves in order to curb the Egyptian conviction apparently held that such nonlinear strategy would be too long-term.
professor Waterbury, who holds a B.A. in Oriental studies from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University, will speak to classes in various departments here through next Friday.
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The Lawrence Traffic and Safety Commission will meet at 7:30 tonight with the city engineer and RU Security and Parking officials to establish a deployment establishment of bike routes in Lawrence.
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The Council of Presidents, a committee consisting of the chancellor of the University of Kansas and the presidents of the other five state supported schools, are meeting today in the Kansas Board of Resents office in Toeka.
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