Tuesday, August 29, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A • Page 5
Opinion
Journalists should broaden criticism
Comment? Call 864-4924 or e-mail opinion@kansan.com
I'm a moderate sports fan with a small gripe about the way certain sports are covered in the journalism world. It seems that there are some major problems in sports, according to a lot of journalists.
The problem is with the conduct of many players, some might even say they are selfish. My problem is that only basketball and football players are targeted by these objective journalists. They have problems with players hogging the ball or celebrating after a sack or, God forbid, talking about themselves. But the conduct of hockey players never seems to come up amongst these reporters.
Hockey players beat each other senseless. Are these people not thugs? They fight until they hit the floor. When they get done fighting, they go sit in the penalty box for a number of minutes while their team struggles because it is lacking a player.
So in hockey, not only is fighting brutal, it is selfish. The whole team has to suffer because certain players can't put their team before their own need to prove their manhood. Since when has basking in the spotlight become worse than bashing somebody's face in? I guess it all depends on who's doing the bashing and who's doing the basking.
Joe Carter South Bend, Ind., senior
Democrats wrongly point fingers in leak
On August 24 the Kansan reprinted an Associated Press story ("Lewinsky scandal not over yet") in covering the "leaked" news that Independent Counsel Robert Ray has impaneled a new grand jury to investigate President Clinton's possible perjury and obstruction of justice during the Lewinsky scandal. Unfortunately by then, that piece already was a week old and contained only half the story.
On the 17th, Democrats and their media allies scrambled to accuse Republicans of strategically "leaking" the news in order to disrupt Al Gore's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention. Surely, it had to be those mean, low-down Republicans who played this political dirty trick, right? Dan Rather sure thought so, the White House sure thought so, and every Democrat who could find a TV camera that day was willing to bet his/her last dime that Republicans were to blame.
By the 20th, though, the truth was out: Federal Judge Richard Cudahy, a Carter appointee and one of the three overseers of Ray's investigation, inadvertently gave the information to a reporter. So, the presumptuous charge of a Republican dirty trick is as baseless and silly as the Democrats' predictably sanctimonious rantings.
By the way, the leaders of the accusatory mob, Reps. Charles Rangel, (D.N.Y.) and Jesse Jackson Jr., (D.-C.) have yet to apologize.
John H. McCool Evansville, Ind., graduate student
It's easy voting Green
In response to the question to Green or not to Green ... If you're from a regressive, conservative state that can't even decide whether to teach basic science like evolution, such as Kansas, then by all means, Green, Green, Green!
Al Gore doesn't stand a snowball's chance in the August Kansas heat of winning this state. Because we elect the president by our winner-takes-all electoral college, a vote for Al Gore is the truly wasted vote.
On the other hand, a vote for Ralph Nader helps the Green Party reach the 5 percent minimum nationwide needed to receive federal matching funds in the next election.
So while voters in battleground states that could go for either Bush or Gore may have a tough choice to make, the answer in Kansas is clear: This year, it's easy voting Green.
Besides, as much as Gore may speak of fighting for the people instead of the privileged, he won't seriously challenge the control that corporations have grasped over American society and government.
Greg Seibel
Graduate student in computer science
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