The people should know that. It would get them off our back and 

 might make them a more effective political force. It seems to me that 

 sportsmen traditionally, are politically ineffective and the reason is, I 

 think, that they don't have full understanding of the issues and why 

 things are happening the way they're happening. So there're some of 

 my concerns about agency I and E efforts. 



I'd like to turn now to the media. First, the newspapers in 

 general, from my experience are favorable. And I came here 

 determined give an overall favorable impression of at least my 

 experience with the newpapers. I have not seen the difficulties or had 

 the troubles that Bill Brown has talked about. There are of course, 

 occasional things here and there. For instance, I've seen two 

 newspapers in a large city take opposite sides in the internecine 

 divisional struggles in a department and I think, to the detriment of 

 the department on the one hand and to the detriment of their own 

 stature as newspapers on the other. This is very unnecessary and in 

 fact, something that really was I think, journalistically not of that much 

 substance. They should not have gotten involved. There are of 

 course, problems with accuracy and problems with dwelling on the 

 spectacular at the expense of the substantive. But by-and-large, my 

 experience has been favorable. 



But literally, as I was driving in the car with some other faculty 

 members to Salt Lake and I was on my way here via some business that 

 I had in Salt Lake yesterday before leaving, the people there in the car 

 tended to have a much different view. In fact, one person who was 

 most vociferous said well, up to a couple of weeks ago, he would have 

 probably would have given the newspapers about a C+, just barely 

 better than average performance on an scale of A to F. But on the 

 basis of his experience in the last couple of weeks, he now would give 

 them a D or a D-. His concerns were-- 1 asked him to spell them 

 out--inaccurate reporting, and unwillingness to call back and read back 

 an article that had been written. And, Malin has told us that that's 

 something that sets off a red flag with the journalists and incidentally 

 Malin, I was told some years ago that any responsible journalist should 

 be willing to do that. So, I've sort of been laboring under that 

 misapprehension. But a couple of weeks ago, when I gave a telephone 

 interview with somebody in the Salt Lake Tribune on what really was a 

 very sensitive issue, I asked him to call me back and read it and he 

 didn't object. But when I asked John Flannery about it, he said the 

 same thing that you did. He said those people are professionals and 

 that's sort of challenging their professional abilities to ask them to do 

 such a thing. But at any rate, this person with whom I was riding 

 yesterday felt that that willingness should have been there. Right or 

 not... maybe we could ask Malin to expand on that later. He also felt 

 that there is too much editorial slant interjected in what are 

 reporting-types of news items. 



I'm obviously not challenging or questioning that there shouldn't 

 be editorial policies in newspapers, but that there should be a clear 

 segregation made of that. Too often, the factual type of news releases 

 had a considerable amount of editorial slant slipped into them. He was 

 also concerned that when he gave an interview, he didn't have any 



