European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes monday August 14, 1978 Jesse Jackson fairness will ensure Freedom of the press it is the Constitution that Grants the press Freedom of expression but it is the fairness of that expression that will Gua Rantee Freedom of the the press and Freedom Loving Citi Zens have been watching elements in con Gress and the courts strive to sabotage the unique Freedom of our press they have not been looking As carefully As they should Athow the press itself undermines its free the credibility of the press is too greatly compromised it will make less and less difference to More and More whether it is free or not. The press can survive official columns comments. Encroachment with greater Hope for Multi e Victory than it can the loss is the real strength of the american its believe bitty. And that is auth harder to preserve than the rights f granted by the Constitution. Is the struggle Between the press and Allt branches of the government executive. A legislative and judicial has gone on in Gly since the first amendment was d. In recent weeks a new and fright. J twist in that struggle has been sane s fined by the supreme court itself it up Smeu a lower court ruling that newspaper spies can be raided and searched by police authorized by no More than a judge s wifi Rich warrant. Lite press will be challenged soon by the consequences of the court s action. Its Best and maybe Only Hope in fighting will be in enlisting concern and sup of a Cross Section of All americans. I fear the press May not find the sup Art it will desperately need if it does not Loon discover that it cannot concentrate my on the Legal questions of its Freedom. In the end it is the press s fairness or " of it that will determine its free a prerequisite in the Legal sense but in the for without fairness in the press free Dom of the press is limited in its vision one has the Freedom to see but cannot see. Minority americans know what i talking about. Their condition in our society reflects among other deprivations that they have been projected with distortions and ability of the press to be fair will re main handicapped As Long As it fails to understand its role As an appraiser an fails to consider the question of who s Actu consider these facts in a Trade Publica Tion s listing of the 133 top executives in the to networks there was Only one Black Peter Andrews of Abc. In general it s even worse in newspapers among the 40, 000 print journalists in the country less than 1,700 Are Black. Among the top executives in the country s 1,700-plus daily news papers there Are fewer the a dozen the degree that the press can accurately and fairly inform the Public to that degree it will retain its moral authority and believability. And on that hinges the final decision As to How free the press will turnover notes to jupg6 Una virus Preu syndic it William the game dred up Wellsprings of Thorit the link Between press Freedom an press fairness is the very essence of the. Press s Power appraisal. Consider it this Way you buy a Diamond ring for $10,000 an decide to insure it. The insurance company arranges for an Independent appraisal. With one Eye closed and the Power of the other magnified by a Glass the appraise May spot a flaw and say the ring is Worth Only $2,000. Or he May find it flawless and say it s Worth $20.000. In either Case the Power is in the Eye of the our society the press is our principal appraiser. It has the Power in great Mea sure to determine who is seen who is heard and How they re seen or the press projects shapes our concepts and our attitudes and How we think and feel about each other. If the press wants to preserve that Power it must have As keen a sense of fairness As it does of citizens and editors alike know there in t such a thing As objective or unbiased reporting. The Best we can Hope for and achieve is fair reporting. It is those who Are most conscientious about being fair who Are most aware of their biases. Thus it is that Freedom in the press is prerequisite for Freedom of the press. Not thl Nowom cup rvs in int column or Corto ont ont mox Nowom Otom 01 0� Outmon and Ora in no � o by Umu trod at the Tom of the or Fri so rim or in u it quickly became a cliche along to Ward the flowering of the new Deal that creeping institutionalization of Charity might have the effect of contaminating the Wellsprings of Charity. If to take an example that might have been appropriate in the Ore Industrial age the Prince automatically gave bread to the poor what role would be left for the Church if Caesar is Given responsibility for the lame and the halt what role is there for the neighbor How does the Samaritan practice Good Ness the Issue has Arisen in Europe with a ferocious display of resentment toward those who seek to do Good. In Sweden an industrialist decided to finance a Public Park and there ensued not a testimonial dinner expressing the gratitude of the Community but a demonstration arguing that the Park was a Community facility by reason of the just social demands of that Community and the intervention of the philanthropist was hereby resented who does he think he is to place himself in the role of the state which is the Only legitimate Patron of the Public a similar episode in Britain gave Rise to commentary by a socialist theoretician that it was presumptuous for a map to act indeed that in perfect order Public philanthropy on any conspicuous scale would be impossible be cause in such an order the accumulation of a considerable surplus would not be Toler ated. The United states not without reason is frequently designated As the most Gener Ous nation in the world. Question is this a Public comment or a private comment when de Tocqueville remarked on Ameri can generosity clearly he was remarking a private disposition. But a postwar italian president remarking on american Charity was referring to Marshall Aid an act of Congress. But this leads to the question in a democratically run society in t an act of Congress nothing More and nothing less than the corporate expression of 200million individual voices the argument is theoretically is if Congress passes let us say an act guaranteeing a minimum income it i deduced inasmuch As the members of Congress Are voted into office by the peo ple that Congress is merely transcribing the people s will. The people in other words Are instructing the internal reve nue service to increase taxation upon themselves sufficient to amass a sum of Money needed to guarantee the minimum income. What s wrong with that under examination one discovers that the Assumption of Auto taxation via con Gress is something less than exact. This is so because of the incidence of the tax. Fifty percent of the american Only 6 percent of Federal r singly what you have is 091 Tion that the 50 percent taxes Are a solid Block i template congressional coalition of the non taxpayer we taxpayers United in their i act from the balance of f contribution to the minimum ii to be sure the theoretical the transaction is made More the Factor of widespread Iare Many people in this i instruct their legislators to t fare measure the result of t them each an additional year who would not Volunteer arriving at their door i Button designed to effect Lief. But what will happen Down i a democratic society Tance of Federal welfare the individual of any sense contribute to local charities a to Chest fund Raiser remark in his own experience 1pen. The drive for the k the local Library or for the 1 fund faces the old donor look away on the ground f tals and the educational in the youth corps have become i jets for which they Are they Greet the local the familiar accents of the w he already gave at the office. 1 it be before we reach the f reached in Sweden and 1 responsibility is assigned i a More important what is them a elopement past the Point rim sense of the people that the s representing them will the t Are All witnessing Alre Ter the Wellsprings of i become arid How Long Nuutt mutate the ethos of the 1mount, which enjoins the in. Visual exertions in behalf of the lame and the poor and Ulm one sighs and suppose if. Lem will one Day be surveyed if a signal committee. A 1c k la
