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...Federal Communications Commission was worrying about media monopolies long before Spiro Agnew ever left Maryland. Last week the FCC finally moved to curb joint broadcasting-publishing companies that it considers to hold "undue influence on local public opinion." It promulgated a rule forbidding the owner of any TV station, AM-FM radio operation or newspaper to acquire another outlet in the same community...
...have antidiscrimination housing laws on the books, they are notoriously unenforced. Example: the U.S. Justice Department has assigned 13 lawyers to enforce the Fair Housing Act of 1968; they have brought 44 cases to court and have won 13. Nor does persuasion hold much promise. When Vice President Spiro Agnew recently proposed that suburban housing and jobs be opened to blacks, suburbanites were ready with a reply: their towns already had plenty of "urban" problems (mainly caused by large populations of poor whites) and needed more federal help-not more blacks...
Honky Sellout. At least as much as Spiro Agnew-but with better reason-many black citizens are suspicious of the news media. Clearly, white Americans have not been adequately informed about black Americans. There has been a tendency to concentrate on action stories, such as riots and demonstrations, and not enough effort to explain the causes of dissatisfaction. As a result, when a black reporter for a white-controlled news organization goes into a black community, hostility toward his employer sometimes rubs off on him. He may be regarded, in the phrase of some black newsmen, as a "Ghetto Sniffer...
Assailing the views of Vice President Agnew at an alumni banquet, Yale President Kingman Brewster delivered himself of some convoluted prose worthy of Spiro himself: "Perhaps the greatest contribution we can make is to reaffirm in the face of those who would seek to coerce conformity that practical progress relies most of all on the evolution of the better by the survival of the fittest among ideas tossed in the blanket of debate, dispute and disagreement...
...doubts that the Nixon-Agnew Administration has been keeping tab on the TV networks' news coverage are now resolved. The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch has printed the score card. According to a White House report leaked to the paper, three presidential aides monitored supper-hour newscasts from August to December 1969 and rated each item involving the Administration as pro, con or neutral. NBC ranked lowest, because it "periodically becomes crusading and generates news" tending "to reflect unfavorably on the Administration...