European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes Anthony Lewis charge of press Bias against Israel unsupported a marked Bias against Israel the headline said. In was on a column last Munth by Jeanne Kirkpatrick the for Mer . Delegate to the United nations. Kirkpatrick said critics had charge the new York times and the television networks with showing such Bias in their reports on the palestinian uprising in inc West Bank and Gaza. Now finally she said there is evidence on the ques Tion of unfair reporting and it confirmed he critics. The evidence she cited came from the Center for Media and Public affair sin Washington. In a study of times and network Sioris on the uprising it found negative spin most of it  the Center s report of the study Dinoi explain How in rated something in a news Story As Sunli Jrae i i was curious about the scientific method so i asked he co director s. Robert  kindly sent me some examples of statements that his graduate student re searchers had coded As  on a Day when Israel deported four palestinians a television broadcast said thai Irving Shapiro the former chairman of the up Pont co., had spoken of the event Wilh  he said deporting arabs away from their Homes to another land is  that comment was Ralpd As  a times report on the beating of palestinians by israeli soldiers quoted the israeli newspaper Haar la As follows a Dis Cussion Wilh some of those assaulted showed Llic a casings were often done in a demonstrative Way deliberately in orderly we on example and often the victims were quiet residents adults and children who were not suspected in violent or illegal  was coded  those examples show that i restudy was a travesty of scientific method and of common sense. The press is in the business of publish ing news when a person of living Shapi res stature says what he did in is news nor can in be Ami israeli for an Ameri can publication to quote a respected israeli newspaper. Haartz was Worth quoting William Safire Mote its or Nike Ort but just cwt like a imm precisely because it is so authoritative units reports of what goes on in Israel and the occupied territories if anything has Hurt Israel in american eyes in these last months it was not the reporting but the facts the unchallenged facts. When israeli soldiers used a Bulldozer to try to Bury palestinians alive there was no Way to make hat fact look Neutral. Reality was not Neutral. For decades the american pres reported at length on Israel s achieve ments. No other country had coverage re Motely As favourable. But the attempt to exercise permanent Dominion Over Territo Ries inhabited by another people who want their own nationhood has forced is Rael to use unpleasant methods and re ports on those methods inevitably Wilt no make pleasant Reading. In sending examples of statements inthe press that his study found to be anti israeli a Ichler said please note that Wedo not assess inc truth value of these Statum cols Only their . To code stories As anti israeli was fal Lacious in another Way. The american press has reported critical comments on israeli actions in inc West Bank and Gaza. But most of that criticism was not  it was criticism of israeli govern ment policy a policy that Many israeli think is harmful to heir country Lichter conceded the Point when we spoke. Perhaps Lichter and his Enlar Are really that pure of heart not As tendentious As they seem. If so. They arc woefully unprofessional. This study at least provides nothing of use to any serious critic of the press just some free floating conclusion that Jeanne Kirkpatrick and others on the right can use As clubs 15 suggestions to silence the glasnost critics London the British press is knocked Oul bythe new russian revolution end of the cold War winds of change of what a Lovely peace few observers consider inc tools of glasnost. Eco nomic realists in the soviet Union led by the Kab Suri Andropov in the Early 80s, recognized communism s failure. They put a new clique in place to Over haul the soviet machine without losing control of the levers of political Power. Central in the Andropov plan was the mobilization of both the intelligentsia and masses against the is million party members who had been living off the fat of the land. Enter glasnost the Freedom to Cril in inc Only those past and present targeted by the new elite which has seduced so Many Western leaders into wanting to press financing and technology on the overhauled. I Don t want to be the Skunk at he Garden  Are 15 suggestions to Gorbachev for changes that would begin to silence the surly squares who used o Behic ruling circles 1. Shut Dawn it East riot support network for terrorism. Bulgaria East Germany Hungary and Yugo Slavia operate training Camps and offer Safe Haven to red guard and Plo terrorists a word from you could end that. 2. Reconfigure your military Tercel from offt sire a defensive. Soviet generals conduct Only offensive War games. Nato has Only defensive games. The Flint toward Iran Man Euver drawing nato troops South Ward was especially distressing to our War gamers soviet forces arc equipped wifi Long flexible pipe to refuel vehicles rolling Forward. Take that kind of equipment out of your Force Structure. 3. Publish a Telephone directory. Slop treating the phone Book As a military secret and drop the Barrier thai make it impossible for your people to dial the outside world. In that connection 4. Permit internal computer networking. Stop Wail ing for Western computer help. Allow your institutes and academies to Hook into each other. Use the analogy of Lenin and electrification if your less daring comrades object to the loss of Central control of in formation. 5. Stop jamming radio free Europe on the Csc of the Summit talks you revoked the visas of two crack . Sovi ecologists displaying your fear of uncut phone coverage. Us the broadcasters and their Sig nals into inc soviet Union if you must Jam Jam the innocuous voice of America. 6. Tear attn the Berlin Wall and order Borde guards to Stop killing people who try to Cross the Iron curtain. As Long As you treat your inhabitants a prisoners no fundamental change in the perception of the soviet Union As the Home of inc gulag is Possi ble. And in thai connection 7. Stop encouraging eat semitism in the Guise Offret speech or religious Liberty. Organizations like Pamat and pet Church leaders have found it easy los Pread anti jewish hatred under glasnost your re Cord on emigration is not nearly As Good As Brezhnev s. Drop your new requirement of a family connection abroad and let the refuseniks All of them go. 8. Cancel your agreement to rent Fidel Costro i army to prop up a regime in Angola. You have in creased i Host 40,000 mercenaries by 15 percent indecent months. And while you re in Africa 9. Order your 1,000 and Turt in Ethiopia to Peri Adf Celt Meag Ittu to Stop practising genocide by Starta Lien on his own people 10. Permit Natan Sharansky s took Star no Iii to by published in the soviet Union. In would be More relevant than the publication of Pasternak. Then publish your own accurate figures on your defense budget troop strength and the reality of your current deficit 11. Stop using the . At a staging area for  in the ., and quit using your mount Alto location in Washington As a huge intrusive listening station 12. Permit an of petition party. Without it All talk of secret ballots and competing candidates is mean ingless. 13. While you re rewriting history text the truth about Felix  he first secret police chief whose reputation your Kab supporters insist you project. 14. Pledge to refrain from rolling in your tanks if coming uprisings get out of hand in Romania an Poland. 15. Follow up your indication of Gary Hart t Nett column in Moscow new Wilh fearless publication of pundits like William f. Buckley canc Kirkpatrick and Pat Buchanan. For openers run today s essay. Tutt n or a a tilth