European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Of Liam f. Buckley sunday August 27, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 15 Reader s Bias charge often goes unheard t2 congratulations to Cre of Pouls Eagle on successful lamp is. There is an institution called aim which stands for accuracy in Media whose Mission in life is to Monitor the Prin Cipal journals in search of leftward factual Bua. The gentleman in charge is one Reed Irvine and he is in the tradition of those who never give up. This requires As we shall see Iron plated skin and or. Irvine s would not be pierced by an anti tank gun is witness the recent Effort of the executive editor of the Washington Post whose threshold of impatience is less that stratospheric and who in his final communication with or. Irvine declined even to use the customary salutation dear in a world in which people Are obliged to write letters to dear or. Hitler or dear or. Stalin or dear pol pot one needs to be terribly upset to eel that to Dis Pense with the dear has finally become necessary inasmuch As convention Tea Ches us that the word is not regularly deployed in addressing Only the endearing indeed dear sir you cur has become something of a happened aim s Irvine wanted to know Why the Washington Post is always going on about the human rights violation m Chile and South Africa but is parsimonious in its recording of human rights violations in Cuba and Cambodia. Indeed if aim s contentions Are Correct and in the acrimonious Exchange they Are not in fact challenged the readers of the. Washington Post have scant reason to know that Cam Bodia is being governed by anyone meaner that Ivline one gathers tracked Down a particular episode involving a press con Ference of a cambodian Escapee pin a thay whose Story was not carried by the Post. The responsibility it seems was that of the news editor who gave As his reason that it was so similar to other stories the Post had pointed out writes or. Irvine in his newsletter that those other stories simply could not be found in the pages of the Post in the preceding year. We suggested that mrs. Graham ought to try to find out the real reason. We noted pattern of reporting at the Post that could reflect the ideological proclivities of som of its mrs. Graham reacted by accusing Irvine of character assassination and comparing him Here she fired her big Bertha to Joe Mccarthy. Or. Brad tee Irvine writes stoically was some what less Bradlee wrote you have revealed yourself As a miserable carping Retro Lnugent vigilante and i or one am sick of wasting my time in communicating with i pause to look lovingly but a Little suspiciously at Retro intent a word James Jackson Kilpatrick citing Westbrook Peg Thi opinion up Miod n the columns and Corto ont on my my Ftp mail imm Olim a tort and we in no Myk by us Mot in Al will to Sura . It is a coincidence that i once verb Clear How i dtal�T8tag. The usage die or Ai Art Cul arly unhelpful Keatinge the nobler animals the lion the elephant Are Retro Lnugent " in that Exchange or. Irvine with his or. Bradlee was somewhat less temperate eme Gesas the Winner. Sweet Are the uses of meiosis. What should an editor do when asked Bya Reader to explain an apparent factual Bias or. Irvine s experience with the pub Lisher of the new York time or. Bukberg or has proved happier. Or. Sulzberger directs that queries should be sent to the reporter who if he has not answered the within 10 Days can expect to see the complaint published in the letters Reed Irvine when he wants space in the Washington Post has to pay or it a advertising thereby making it possible to buy bigger and better dictionaries for the editor. George f. Will meals Are Fife worst part of Fly ing it is useful and occasionally stimulating when events remind one of truths. United airlines night 166 from Denver to Washington recently reminded me of Sev eral first it is an aspect of probability that the improbable will occasionally , aged aunts although generally Sharp As tacks Are occasionally trip from Denver is not Long Al though time is lengthened by a a lights that serve meals perpetrated by chefs who run the risk of everlasting fires flight 166 was descending through the smog that blankets the City where the of tar act was born j Ham Greene s novel travels with my " in which the remarkable aunt a explains Why she prefers trams to Only take a plane when there is no Al tentative Means of travel. It s a matter of Choice not nerves. I knew Wilbur Wright very Well indeed at one Lime. Betook me for several trips. I always Felt quite secure in his contraption. But i can not Bear being spoken to All the time by irrelevant two minutes after i read that passage the aircraft was on the ground and a voice on the intercom the sort of voice aun Augusta finds intolerable was Barking evacuate the Barker did not need to repeat his suggestion the passengers hav ing been rendered Alert by the abruptness with which the ground had come up to meet the air plane s tires some of which after the jolting Landing and after the plane had ground to a shuddering halt but before discovery of fire had made evacuation seem prudent a flight attendant who must have had a droll sense of fun seize the intercom to announce that flight 166 had landed the will boys Are precociously Blase about All aspects of night except United ice Cream bars so they welcomed the sex it tent especially the shouting the Jolly lunge Down the inflated emergency exit Side the Muddy dash away from the air can and tit arrival of fire apparatus to Mother the names. But the remarkable thing is How rarely such excitement of Napoleon possessed Many re a Kable skills he was not everyone Short of fellow. The same is True of the aver be airline employee who it sometimes2n is primarily devoted to announcing sinews Uch that your flight is late that a meal will be served. But Dur Tofi a Boom in air travel wit traffic up � percent Over last year it i to note the airlines astonish i the largest airline in the free world carried 3.9 million passengers a new one month record. In july it carried 4.1 million. And from june 25-july 1, United became the first airline to carry one Millon passengers in a week. During the fourth of july weekend . Domestic flights carried More than three million passengers. The airlines Are averaging two million More passengers a month than last year which was a Good year. In the first seven months of 1978 there have been approximately three million scheduled flights More than 14,000 a Day but Only four fatal accidents involving a total of five Fatali ties. Although the modern technologies of transportation and architecture make pos sible complicated and spectacular Acci dents life today is virtually free from Many of the disasters that blighted lives i simpler Days. The newspapers of 100 years ago were full of reports about injuries and deaths inflicted by runaway horses overturned carriages and farm equipment train wrecks and tiles falling from City roofs onto pedestrians. A Standard unit for measuring transportation safety is fatalities per too million passenger Miles. Here Are the figures for air and automobile travel during five year periods with the air figures first 1942-46 2.0s. 2.74 1947-51 1.65. 2.20 195246 0.41, 2.70 1957-61 0.51. 2.32 1962-66 oj1, 2.36 1967-71 0.18, 2jo l�72-78-0.0�,1.56.aunt Augusta May be a disparaging As she chooses to be about the tiresome facets of air travel but it is Marva Busty efficient. Saw let confirm what Hutt or suggests then arc Only two routinely terrifying aspects of air travel one is the cab ride on the freeway to the Airport the other to mealtime in tip air. C to Wmk Mowl of
