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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