The Michigan Daily-Thursday, March 23, 1978--Page 5
RUTGERS PR OF BLASTS U.S. MEDIA:
Allende:
Victim of bad
By RENE BECKER
Salvador Allende, the socialist
president of Chile who was
assassinated in the 1973 coup, was the
target of slanted U.S. press coverage
which gave Americans a false im-
pression of the man and events in Chile
while he was president, according to
John Pollack, a political science
professor at Rutgers University.
Speaking before about 40 people in
Angell Hall yesterday, Pollack said the
American press "assumed that the
Allende government was some kind of
enemy," merely because he was a
socialist.
POLLACK, who has studied the effec-
ts of media on national opinion and
government decision-making, singled
out The New York Times as being "in
some ways, the worst offender."
More specifically, Pollack pointed to
an article appearing in The New York
Time Magazine in which reporter Juan
de Onis wrote: "Extremists have
already produced two major crises sin-
ce Allende was elected."
Pollack said de Onis' words might
lead the reader to lgelieve that the elec-
tion of Allende caused the crises.
ACCORDING to de Onis' article, the
crises were "the assassination of
General Schnieder (the chief of staff of
the Chilean Army) and, nine months
later, the assassination by left-wing
terrorists of Edmundo Perez Zukovic,
who had been Minister of the Interior
under former President Frei."
Pollack said Schneider had been
killed by right-wing forces opposing
Allende. He noted that according to de
Onis, "Right-wing assassins are simply
assassins; those from the Left are left-
wing terrorists."
The Times, Pollack claims, along
with The Washington Post, The Los
Angeles Times, The Wall Street Jour-
nal, and other papers that extensively
cover foreign events, generally inter-
views those on the political right about
"dangerous left-wing terrorists" but
rarely interviews leftists about
"dangerous rightists."
"MOST INTERVIEWS were held
with upper and middle class people"
said Pollack. "Seldom were opinions
solicited from those who would most
likely support Allende," including.
union officials, factory workers and the
unemployed.
But Pollack was most disturbed
about what American nedwsmen leave
out of their stories.
The American press omits much in-
formation essential to balanced ar-
ticles, according to Pollack. An
especially flagrant example of this,
said Pollack, was American coverage
of a 1971, anti-Allende street rally in the
Chilean capital of Santiago.
POLLACK SAID the U.S. press did
not report, as did the European news
services, that the majority of the
protestors were upper middle or upper
class - "not exactly Allende's biggest
fans."
According to Pollack: "Seventy to
eighty per cent of all foreign news we
receive in the United States comes from
the Associated Press (AP)," a wire
news service which most U.S.
newspapers subscribe to.
Not only are the wire services for-
ming U.S. opinion about South
America, he said, but they are also
forming the opinion South Americans
have of themselves, said Pollack.
Latin American countries do not have
their own wire services so they sub-
scribe to AP, said Pollack. All AP
stories coming from Latin America
must go through the New York
headquarters before being sent back to
Latin America.
As a result, Pollack said, although 15
per cent of the news from South
America is about violence, 25 per cent
press
of the South American news sent back
from New York is about violence.
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6f students in Angell Hall about the inaccuracies he says the American press com-
mitted during President Salvador Allende's reign in Chile.
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Southern conservatives who played key
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His announcement came just two
days after former Mississippi Gov. Bill
Wailer disclosed he would challenge
Eastland in the state's Democratic
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doubt he would have been re-elected.
had he sought another six-year term in
the Senate.
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Attorney General Robert Kennedy, ha4
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