DIG DEEPER,BUNDY URGES EDITORS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100560002-1
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 27, 1998
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: April 21, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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CPYRGHT
press needs to start
prizing its readers
more and its head-
lines less," the for-
mner White 'House
aide told a meet-
Washington (AP) c corgc unUy,
president o ire l'otd Fun Tda iii ,, ctiLl
cized the nation's newspapers yesterday
for concentrating unduly on what he
, 1 lcd "hard hot news"-,and ignoring the
",.. journalism that goes below the surface and
produces analytical stories.
"The American
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Bundy
went, but more.
But it also means visits ? to universities,
better. use of libraries, more control of
foreign languages, and a refusal to think
of all reality only in its relationship to the
lead (opening paragraph of a.ndws story)."
.The former head of national security
"This does not
mean I e s s leg
work, it-, means
more. It does not
mean less contact
with the govern-
ing of the Ameri-
'can Society of
Newspaper Edi-
tors. He :said,
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on .irec propositions: The .. ,,H 11"
the coming generation of journalists can
do these harder kinds of reporting once
they know the editor cants it, the second
is that plenty of readers want it too, they
prefer the reality to the gossip when they
get a chance. And the third is that there
is more real influence here than anvwhcr;;
else. "We live in a time when noting is
more relevant, Nothing more 'with it,"'
Bundy told the editors, "than the journal-
ism which goes below the surface .. .
Today's new ideas are tomorrow's hard
reality." Bundy cited'the recent coverage
of the CIA dispute, the controversy over
the Warren Commission report, and the
Vietnam war as missed opportunities for
"thoughtful investigators."
On the CIA issue, said that in all the
intensive reporting about it "no one that I
saw bothered to attecmpt a qualitative
account of the work that was done with
the money. I'm not saying that it would
have been an easy job-or that everyone
involved would, or even should, have been
cooperative. I am saying simply that the
job wasn't t6ed-that one highly relevant
question wasn't really asked." Bundy's
White House job involved close contact
.with the CIA.
Earlier, the editors ]lard hlopd X'fe sick-, national director of the Congress of
Racial Equality, bitterly charge that
America's newspapers ignore the news and
needs of Negroes in their cities 'finless
there are riots, or one Negro attacks vn- J
other, or a Negro utters readical state-11
ments.
"The newspapers today ' iavc two poli-
cies," McKissick said: "Ignore it; it will go
away. But watch for the riot, that will be
newsworthy." He added, "The. newspapers
today have no lines into the ghetto and
have no inkling of. What is'going on there
-what the mood of the black man' is,, his
hopes and' his plans -and .dreams:' He
offered to provide each editor ,with a
guide to his city.'s slums "to see the black
community from inside."
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