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Past ABC News boss visits KU
By Bengt Ljung Of the Kansan staff
For two weeks, Elmer W. Lower, former president of ABC News, will share 50 years of journalism experience with journalism students at the University of Kansas.
Along with interview and writing skills, he will discuss journalism ethics from an insider's view. Lower arrived at KU yesterday and will teach for two weeks.
Lower spent 20 years in print journalism before moving to television in 1983. He has worked for the BBC and for networks and retired from ABC in 1978.
He said in an interview yesterday that television was more competitive than newspapers today because its concerns centered on ratings and money.
"They push people hard to break stories," he said. "It used to be the newspapers trying to get a scoop for their street sales that resulted in sensationalism. Now, there are so many towns that are one-newspaper towns."
Lower said he had to fight off
management involvement in the news as president of ABC News from 1963 to 1975
"The main thing I tried to do was to keep us from becoming a tabloid news organization," he said. The ABC management thought tabloid journalism would catapult ABC into first or second place in the ratings, he said.
"It was hard to resist over the years," he said. "My theory was that we had to build a reputation as a news organization first, and any move toward tabloid would have made that impossible. I would have resigned before doing that."
Lower, 72, said the three national networks spent a great deal of air time on the hostage crisis in Lebanon, even when there were no new developments. He said he hoped they would show more self-restraint in the future.
"But you can't embargo news," he said, opposing any government regulation.
Lower said he saw a developing trend of less hard news and more features of "how to cope with life." The entertainment aspect of television influences the selection of topics on news magazines such as "20/20," he said.
"They try to select topics they presume have a large popular appeal," he said.
The time constraints of TV news and the feature stories make it difficult for viewers to get enough information, he said.
"TV may have broadened information, but there is a danger in it," Lower said. "People might think that a once-over-lightly coverage is enough, that they are well informed when they have watched Dan Rather or Peter Jennings.
"You need to watch other programs, documentaries and the Sunday discussion programs to know."
Lower was born and raised in Kansas City, Mo. He graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1933.
Lower returned to the University of Missouri 45 years later, after retiring from ABC, to teach journalism. He went on to teach a semester each at eight universities.
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A CONCISE REPLY TO CHRISTIANITY The Total Evidence Why Should We Understand?
Did the Jews Understand?
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Supriising enough, it is often conceded that individual verses are insufficient, inconclusive, or even unusual in the case made for the divinity of Jesus. However, these are those who insist that while any given verse may be authentic, it is the total collection of all such verses that proves the case. This betrays a understanding of the reasoning process. Each verse must prove something, or it is false. Given a verse, we must demand to know exactly what it does prove, and why. Christian exegesis, the traditional explanation of scripture, has been exposed as incredible within the church itself. It has been shown to be enthymemic in the extreme. That is, premises and conclusions are not clearly stated. (Exactly what is meant by the "redemption of man" is still not clear to this date.) Whether we probe the roots or outgrowth of the system, the structure becomes vague. (See for example, THE MYTH OF GOD INCARNATE, a Christian publication.)
THE MYTH OF GOD IN CARRIAGE, a Christian publication
A final argument has been offered based on the understanding of the Jews. Christians have said that our rebuttal given here is unimportant because the Jews understood Jesus to grasp at equality with God. They cite John 5:18,"...because,(he) was calling God his own father, making himself equal with God." They pass over the verses which follow immediately, where Jesus subjected himself to God, naming those things which God gave him.
Curiously enough, in their haste to put claims on the lips of Jesus, part of the Christian church constructs a very confused story. The Hebrew scriptures made reference to a Messiah and the Church says this can only mean an incarnate God and so when Jesus spoke of himself as Messiah he was blaspheming because no man can be God, according to Hebrew scriptures... or so the reasoning seems to flow together in confusion.
flow together in confusion.
There is a legal point to be made here. If the Jews understood that the Messiah was to be a man who was equal to God then who claimed to be the Messiah could only be condemned as a false Messiah would be condemned on the grounds that he uttered a statement which must always be bourne him in itself. At some future time, the true Messiah would have to speak the very same words without being condemned. When certain Jews declared Jesus' words as blasphemy they could only have meant to condemn him as a false messiah. Any supposed connection between the word "Messiah" and the attribute of divinity has no bearing on this matter. (The fact is, the Jews have never believed that the promised Messiah would be a man who is equal to God.)
things which God gave him.
They cite the tenth chapter of John where the Jews tried to stone Jesus for blasphemy. The point of reply Jesus made is neglected. He demonstrated to those Jews, by quoting their own snippet, that they had no grounds for their accusations.
In the second chapter of Mark, Jesus tells a man, "Your sins are forgiven." The customary interpretation takes the side of the Jews then present, who asked, "Who can forgive sins but God alone?" But the verse at John 12:49 among others explains very well how a man could make such a statement. In this verse Jesus denies any personal initiative. (See also John 8: 40, 14:10.) The argument based on Jewish understanding makes the assumption that the Jews understood Jesus. A more viable hypothesis is the existence of enemies of Jesus misunderstood him. In fact Jesus repeatedly alludes to anything Jesus said. (See the reference under Jesus in the UNIVERSAL JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA.)
To be continued
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