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Even the Times's background round-ups--often the most interesting thing in the paper--often grow out of such unexamined biases. This summer, for example, the Times gave prominent play to a three-part series on South Vietnam by David K. Shipler. The series contained considerable information--most of it at least a year or two old--on the torture that is commonplace in the Saigon government's political prisons. Shipler laid great stress on the fact that many of those tortured are not communists, and in general the moral of the series appeared to be that the United...
Indeed, the council has several weighty allegations of press unfairness on its docket. Among them: charges by Graham Martin, U.S. Ambassador to Saigon, that New York Times Reporter David Shipler had inserted "numerous inaccuracies and half-truths" in a story about U.S. assistance to Saigon (TIME, March 25); a complaint by a New York lawyer that public television's Black Journal had been one-sided in supporting the construction of black housing in a white Newark neighborhood...
...rebuttal makes much of Hanoi's hope that the U.S. will reduce aid to Saigon. Martin casts Shipler in the role of Hanoi's tool, witting or unwitting. He refused to see Shipler, he says, because he would not cooperate in a "campaign to grossly deceive the American Congress and the American people...
...Thieu forces have regularly violated the ceasefire. Nor is there any question that American equipment and know-how are still of help to Saigon's military machine. TIME Saigon Bureau Chief Gavin Scott concludes that "on balance, Martin's elaborate rebuttal does little to demolish the Shipler story's central theme." Scott points out, though, that Shipler might have chosen one key word more carefully. It is difficult to prove that U.S. assistance "directly" supports violations, as Shipler argued. But there can be no doubt about "indirect" support...
...Shipler contends that his story was not written to dash these hopes: "I'm not an advocate of anything. It's a cliché, but the reporter's function is to observe and report. The story took shape only after a lot of legwork." Shipler also has his boss's support. When Times Managing Editor A.M. Rosenthal arrived in Saigon for a visit last week, he declined Martin's offer of an interview...