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...radicalized, and the battles are bringing little return in exchange for the jailings and injuries they incur. Burned banks and smashed windows-those are merely a new form of overhead to the super-cor-porations, overhead which pays for itself anyway in the form of new repressions and more Spiro Agnews...
...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...
...states 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...