University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 2. 1986
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Germans study U.S. press
By PAMELA SPINGLER
Staff writer
The U.S. press doesn't dig deep enough or explain in detail the news events of the world, four West German journalists said yesterday during a visit to Lawrence and the KU School of Journalism.
The four are touring the United States to learn more about U.S. mass media, through the U.S. Information Agency's International Visitor Program.
Juergen Hogrefe, Jan Metzger, Wolfgang Schnur and Eberhard Winterhagen said U.S. news was mostly entertainment, and didn't offer a great amount of factual information.
"The tendency is to print headlines and fragments of the story," said Metzger, a reporter with the Hessian Radio Network. "Look at USA Today; it is said that it is printed television. They don't put stories in the entire context of the happening."
Winterhagen, who is editor-in-chief of a daily newspaper in Siegen, West Germany, said that more people were informed in the United States than he had expected.
"I did not see it until now," he said. "But there is a broader population that is able to discuss things such as political issues."
Juergen Hogrete, a correspondant for Der Spiegel magazine, said television news reached more people in the United States than television news reached the West German people.
He said he had heard that about 70 percent of U.S. adults got their news from television, while most Germans got their news from newspapers.
All agreed the United States media didn't cover enough international events that didn't concern U.S. citizens.
"There are days we can't put things that happen in Germany on the front page because there is so much other international news that is more important." Wintzerhagen said. "We can read much more about the United States in our papers than you can read about Germany in even the New York Times.
"It is more than just a superpower and a nonsuperpower difference. It is the orientation of the country, and the United States is nationally oriented, not internationally oriented."
Schnur, a reporter for Bavarian Television, said a large difference between German and U.S. broadcasting was the political independence in the United States.
Education top issue, Docking says
Bv NANCY BARRE
Staff writer
Lt. Gov. Tom Docking, the Democratic nominee for governor, has promised to make higher education his top priority if he becomes governor, John Montgomery, Docking's running mate for lieutenant governor, said yesterday.
But he and Docking don't want to make specific policy recommendations until the Kansas Legislature and the Board of Regents complete a more comprehensive study of the issue, Montomery said.
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Montgomery said that in the 1960s and 1970s, the Regents schools received 25 percent of the state's general fund budget. Today, however, the schools only received 18 percent of the $1.2 billion general fund budget. The Regents schools are the six state universities and the
Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
Montgomery, a Junction City newspaper publisher and former chairman of the Regents, spoke at a press conference in the International Room of the Kansas Union.
figure to 20 percent as soon as possible." he said.
"I don't want to be specific right now," he said. "That would have to come out of the legislative process.
Montgomery also reiterated his support for Docking's proposed FUTURE program, which stands for Full University Tuition/Undergraduate Reward for Excellence.
FUTURE is a two-part proposal that calls for tax breaks for parents who invest in their children's education, and for higher salaries and a 100 percent tuition waiver for graduate assistants.
He said he would allow Washburn University, whose officials had asked to be accepted as a Regents school, to join the system only when lawmakers could make the change without robbing other Regents schools of money.
Montgomery accused House Speaker Mike Hayden, the Republican candidate for governor, of promising opposite things to different groups of constituents.
John Montgomery
"He tells Washburn what they
But Kelley Hayden, Mike Hayden's brother and press secretary, said, "We're not going around saying different things to different people. Docking's the one who's doing that.
want to hear, the Board of Regents what they want to hear and the farmers what they want to hear."
"If he's in Johnson County, he says creation of jobs is the number one priority; if it's Dodge City, he says farms are number one; and if he's in Lawrence or Manhattan, it's higher education."
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Lotto computers make Missouri debut
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missourians played a new game of chance yesterday as Lotto computers began operating throughout the state. Gambling has been legal in urban lottery tickets since early this year.
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charge as instant tickets, went on sale at nite at about 1,200 stores.
Lotto tickets, priced at the same $1
As soon as telephone lines can be installed to connect more computers, Lotto tickets will be offered for sale at more than 4,000 businesses.
The first drawing for a Lotto jackpot of at least $1 million will be Oct. 11. A jackpot drawing will be conducted weekly, thereafter.
If no one wins the jackpot, the amount will be added to the drawing for the following week.
To participate in Lotto, a player selects six numbers between one and 39, marking the numbers on a gaming slip. The retailer will feed the slip into a computer, and the player's choice of numbers will be registered in a central computer.
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