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Friday, May 13,1983
The Red and Black
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Turner touches all bases in speech
Turner: ‘(The networks) know they’re putting on trash'
By GREG FREEMAN
Kni and Black SUtt Writer
Without a doubt, Ted
Turner has a unique view of
the world and enjoys
displaying his boisterous,
outspoken personality.
Speaking on campus
Wednesday night, Turner
jumped from subjects as
varied as television
programming, the Atlanta
Braves and world peace.
Among other things, he said
the networks program
"trash " and jokingly said
the United States should
“nuke the Japanese.'’
Turner, known for his
business success as owner of
WTBS, CNN, CNN2, CNN
Radio, and the Atlanta
Braves and Hawks, spoke at
the Georgia Center for
Continuing Education before
receiving an award from
College Students in
Broadcasting Turner
received the Golden Mike
Award for outstanding
service in broadcast jour
nalism.
Prior to accepting the
award, Turner fielded
questions from the standing-
room-only audience for
about 40 minutes Turner
conducted the session in a
very informal manner,
accepting questions on any
subject.
Several members of the
audience, which numbered
about 350, questioned Turner
about the Atlanta Braves
Turner himself stopped the
proceedings briefly to ask
the score of the game in
progress.
But Turner did speak on
the issues on which he is
known to be outspoken. He
spoke at length on what he
said was a quality problem
Steinem rides second wave of feminism
By SIIERON SMITH
H«l iikd Black t oniributtng Hrtler
Gloria Steinem hit the
pulse of the feminist
movement, not so much with
her attitude as with her
words of support for the
middle-aged woman who
stood in the hushed audience
and cried as she told of her
husband's verbal and
emotional abuse
"Don't leave," Steinem
told the woman "You'll find
sisters here — and maybe a
brother or two”
Steinem found both
Wednesday night in the
Memorial Hall ballroom
where the women's
movement activist and Ms
magazine founder asked a
capacity crowd, "who says
this is a conservative
campus’”
Steinem told the audience.
"We meet together tonight in
an interesting time of
history We have just begun
the second wave of feminism
in this country
Her words came in the
wake of last summer's
defeat of the Equal Rights
Amendment, which has
since been re-introduced in
Congress There was none of
the often-heard "the battle
was lost, but the war will be
won" rhetoric that
sometimes characterizes
women’s movement
Speeches Steinem instead
reflected on the movement
and what had been ac
complished
She said there was
majority support for most of
the issues raised by the
movement
"We have at least ac
complished gaining majority
support for almost all of the
issues raised, "such as equal
pay and equal opportunity,"
she said “That is a huge
accomplishment Ten or 15
years ago (the issues) were
not even in public opinion
polls "
Steinem said changes in
language represented
another victory
"We have phrases like
battered women, and sexual
harassment," she said "A
few years ago it was just
called life."
She said it had been
discovered that "women
don't sleep their way to
power "
Steinem said women were
elected to political office "on
our own merits."
"It used to be true 10 years
ago that women got into
political power by being
widows," she said. "You had
to marry a senate chair
man."
She said a feminist was a
full human being — "it
walks, it talks, it crawls, and
men can be feminists, too."
But the women's
movement is not without its
opponents, and Steinem did
not pass up the opportunity
to take shots at two of those
opponents
On Phyllis Schlafly, the
foremost figure of the anti-
ERA movement Steinen
said: "It's bad to see
somebody working against
her own self-interests She's
the perfect adversary. If I
had put her in a novel,
nobody would have believed
her "
On Ronald Reagan
Steinem said: "I have yet to
call him president He's not
Moll, Rr.d/Tlw Hpd and Black
Steinem: Reagan not her president
my president The oldest,
richest, whitest male
electorate ever, put him in
office."
A major challenge facing
the women's movement,
Steinem said, was the
purging of the "wrong sex"
label attached to women,
especially in relation to
women in the labor force
"The minute it's
discovered (a certain kind
of) work has too many of the
wrong sex, it's devalued,"
she said. "Clerical workers
used to be all men, and they
were fairly well-paid. Now
it’s 96-percent female and
not as well-paid."
Steinem said the "wrong
sex" label can also apply to
families in which women
hold "inferior positions.”
“If we believe in our own
family that some people are
worth more by birth, that a
brother deserves more
money for education, we will
believe anything," she said.
"We curtail our own
natures."
The women's movement is
a means through which all
people can grow, and it is
inching toward an ultimate
goal, Steinem said.
“At each step we are
gaining part of ourselves,"
she said, “in that we are
becoming men and women.
No matter how long it takes,
there will be no turning
back."
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with the major television
networks.
“I've always been a good,
fair competitor in my
competition with the net
works But the networks are
bad. They don’t care about
this country. They know
they're putting on trash,” he
said. "They’re really con
cerned about me blowing the
whistle on them. I’ve got
them dead to rights, and
they can't deny it.
“They should be patrious
and love their country, and
they don’t. As far as I’m
concerned, they should be
put in jail. This is too great a
nation to go down the drain
because of a few executives
..."Turner said.
Turner added that the
major news networks
distorted reality by
programming only bad
news.
"I was in Israel for a week,
and I never saw a terrorist,"
he said. "I haven't been in an
airplane crash, and I fly a
lot."
Turner also said if he were
to merge WTBS with another
network, as was proposed
with CBS-TV earlier, he
would vastly change the
programming to "promote
my view of what
programming should be,” —
indicating more wholesome,
family oriented programs.
He said, for instance, he
wouldn't cancel “The Dukes
of Hazzard" but would use it
to teach a lesson.
Turner said he would like
to see an episode in which
the normally reckless stars
"wrap their car around a
tree" and after recovering,
run for political office so
they could improve their
town.
“Confused kids don't know
whether to be good or bad,"
he said. "I believe the less
TV you watch the better you
are. But you should watch
my networks because at
least it’s better than the stuff
on those other jerk-off
networks."
Turner, who was often
quite brash and almost
abusive, much to the delight
of the audience, also ex
pressed his views on world
peace and national
problems.
“I believe in a world of
peace and brotherhood and
kindness where the battles
are fought on the playing
field and the losers buy a keg
of beer," Turner said.
“Does anyone know a
Russian? Then why are we
getting ready to nuke these
people?" Turner asked. "If
we're going to nuke anybody
let’s make it the Japanese.
When was the last time you
saw a Russian car or TV
set?"
Turner answered several
questions on his ambition
and beginnings in the
communication field. He
said his motivation was
"sort of a combination of
being born with it and
learning it," adding that he
may have too much am
bition. Turner said the most
important decision in his
career was deciding to head
the advertising agency left
to him by his father instead
of selling it.
"That launched me on a
career working instead of
sitting on my butt cashing
inheritance checks."
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