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University Daily Kansan, August 27, 1984
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Prof compares conventions
By MARY CARTER Staff Reporter
The Republican National Convention was a "marvelously orchestrated, elegant event" but not the exciting "mini-series of entertainment" of the Democrates, a KU professor of communications studies said last week.
"There was no news in the Republican convention," said Karlyn Kohrs-Campbell, the professor " Their strength was in attack, in retaliation of the attacks, the attacks had a kind of celebration, an effective explanation what it is to be a Democrat."
rothes-Campbell is working with a communications professor from the University of Maryland on a book on presidential rhetoric.
THE DEMOCRATS BENEFITED from the major television networks' efforts to curry only prime-time convention cov-
Crudge she said "We only saw speeches, and only the speeches of stars," she said.
the speeches of stars," she said.
New York Gov. Mario Cuomo's keynote address of Jesse Jackson word "real zingers," she said.
"It was a return of high oratory, and it was just plain entertaining," she said. "Cuomo was so good, it was pleasurable to listen to him. And which of us doesn't identify with Jesse Jackson's 'be patient;
God isn't finished with me'?"
God isn't unlucky. But against, U.S. Treasurer Katherine Ortega's Republican keynote address was "so bad it was hard to listen to." Kohrs-Campbell said.
campus." "SHE HAD AN opportunity to talk about achieving the American dream and to argue that it's really a Republican ideal," she said. "She could have talked about her own expertise as a woman in banking and accounting.
"She didn't. She had well below-average delivery, and her subject did as little for the speech as the delivery."
as the best envoy. The best speeches of the Republican convention, in Kohlr-Camphell's view, were those of President Reagan, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jeanne Kirkpatrick and Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole.
"Joe Kirkpatrick did a super job refuting the charge that Reagan is a warmonger," she said. "She said not only is Reagan not a warmonger, but his policies keep us at peace."
Kirkpatrick was the perfect person to deliver that message. Kohrs-Campbell said, not only because of her academic credentials and hands-on experience in the area, but also because she is a Democrat and a woman with draft-age sons.
"ELIZABETH DOLE DID the best Republican thing on the gender gap I've heard. She said, in
effect, that women are thinking individuals, not a herd that will run to support a candidate just because she's a woman. This is both comforting to the Republicans and complimentary to women."
Reagan's speech was the best of the Republican convention, but it was not problem-free, Kohrs-Campbell said.
Although delivered in the warm, casual and personable "vintage-Reagan" style, with excellent timing and non-verbal communication, she said, the speech was too long and "mastier" than she had expected.
"It made you want to tune out in the middle. Structurally, it was a mess," she said. "The middle was a laundry list. He went through a long series, and the listeners got lost."
Reagan's concluding references to the Olympic flame and the transition to the flame of the Statue of Liberty could have been the high point of the speech, she said. But by then, the audience was tired and restless.
"It was nastier than I expected, in that everybody expected him to try to reach out to Americans. Instead, he said the choice is not left or right, but up or down, down being a welfare state and totalitarianism. That suggests that if you're not a Republican, what are you?
Good people make a good newspaper and excellent people make an excellent newspaper, the recipient of the 1985 William Allen White Foundation Award for Journalistic Merit said yesterday.
Eugene L. Roberts, executive editor of the Pulitzer-Prize-winning Philadelphia Inquirer, will receive the citation on William Allen White Day in February, it was announced last week.
By CHRISSY CLEARY Staff Reporter
The award is given annually to a journalist who resembles the late William Allen White, Emporia Gazette editor, in "service to his profession and his country."
Editor wins award for journalistic service
"GENE ROBERTS IS one of the outstanding editors in the United States today, as the number of awards his newspaper has won indicates," said Robert B. Wellington, president of the William Allen White Foundation and editor and publisher of the Ottawa Herald.
and publisher of the O'Reilly
"He's a fearless editor who'll
tackle anything, and a guardian of
correct English language."
During Roberts' years at the Inquirer, which has a daily circulation of more than 500,000, the paper has won more than 90 national awards, including the Gold Medal for Public Service.
one Service. Since Roberts began at the Inquirer in 1972, the newspaper has won six consecutive Pulitzer Prizes. A recent Time magazine survey ranked the Inquirer as one of the top
ten daily newspapers in the United States.
ROBERTS SAID FROM his home in Philadelphia, "Accuracy, not being complacent and having a broad definition of news" contribute to being an award-winning newspaper.
"A good test is if the paper really provides information for the readers to make an intelligent vote." he said. "If this tails in a democratic society, there isn't much of a democracy."
Roberts was the national editor of the New York Times before joining the Philadelphia Inquirer. He also
served as the chief civil correspondent and civil rights reporter during the 1960s and was the chief war correspondent in Vietnam for four years.
He began his newpaper career as a farm reporter for his hometown newspaper, the Goldsboro News-Argus in Goldsboro, NC Roberts, the son of a weekly newspaper publisher and editor wordpresser John C. Forklok of Fortifolk Veterans Pilot, Sunday editor for the Raleigh News and Observer and the city editor of the Detroit Free Press before joining the New York Times
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