A U.S. Commission has recently recommended that mass news media pay more attention to the views of minorities and that the government provide some means where minorities can bring their grievances to light.

      About 22 years ago the president of the University of Chicago stated that the practice of excluding the views and aims of minority groups from mass media was the direct cause of violence, riots and civil commotion.

      Examining this idea we see that the news media does not neglect to report the violence and reactions of minorities but almost never fully reports the actual ideas and real grievances of various groups, churches or minorities. We see reported violence against students such as their being banned or the subduing of riots.

      We are reading in essence what one might call fragmentary reports. The whole story isn't there.

      Nobody has really asked either side what ideas are in conflict.

      The Establishment has no mediators one can approach so as to talk it over or who have the power to get things straight.

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