Thursday, Jan. 16, 1986
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University Daily Kansan
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Sunflower Cablevision, the same services will cost $8.50 for one or $15 for both.
Sunflower Cablevision can offer HBO and Cinema at a lower rate because they take care of servicing and the paperwork, relieving HBO of that responsibility.
Herb Williams, Route 4, said he was upset about the move by HBO and Cinemax to scramble their signals. He bought a satellite dish because he could not get cable. Now even with the satellite dish, he will have to pay for a decoder and the monthly fee if he wants to get HBO and Cinemax.
"It's way out of proportion compared to cable TV," he said.
Williams doesn't plan to buy a decoder because he doesn't watch many movies. Instead he said he planned to wait to see whether Congress would pass a bill now pending that would put a two year moratorium on signal-scrambling.
Some commercial establishments in Lawrence also will be affected.
Media seen as more reliable
United Press International
— WASHINGTON — A new study of public attitudes toward the press concluded yesterday that "there is no credibility crisis for the nation's media," and that Americans find their news more believable than President Reagan.
"If credibility is defined as believability, then credibility is, in fact, one of the media's strongest suits," the Gallup polling organization said after a yearlong study commissioned by the Times-Mirror Co.
The public gave print and broadcast news organizations and their best-known figures marks of 80 percent to 90 percent for believability and favorability but also criticized the media for political bias, emphasizing bad news, invading privacy, failing to admit mistakes and bowing to outside pressures.
President Reagan received 68 percent on the believability question and 71 on another question
that measured public favor toward various groups and people.
The $250,000 survey involving some 4,000 interviews of more than 3,000 people in 1985, said while public support was broad. "Many more Americans say 'mostly favorable' than say 'very favorable' when asked to rate the press. Many more ... give good grades for believability than give excellent grades."
Andrew Kohut, head of the Gallup organization, said at a news conference, "Press critics are much more critical than its supporters are supportive" but that overall the public appeared to give the media more credit for gathering the news and acting as a "watchdog" on government than blame for its shortcomings.
The study found six categories of attitudes toward the press. Three, ranging from unquestioning to wavering support, added up to 70 percent of the population; critics, whose feelings varied from mild to
vociferous, represented 30 percent.
The survey said the strongest press critics constituted only 5 percent of the public but tended to be the most informed about the news and organizations that gather it.
On overall accuracy, 55 percent of the public said the press generally got its facts straight, while 34 percent said it did not.
But when asked to rate specific news organizations for believability, the public awarded much higher marks.
The three major broadcast networks, the Wall Street Journal, Time and Newsweek newsmagazines and local television stations all received 85 percent to 87 percent marks for believability.
Radio news broadcasts and local newspapers were in the 80 percent to 84 percent bracket, "nationally influential newspapers" rated 78 percent, USA Today received 73 percent.
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