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Continued from p. 6
"I think of myself as an activist journalist," he
says. "I think any good journalist is interested in
truth, Truth is an absolute. You can't destroy the
truth. So as long as truth is your goal, all that
stuff about advocacy and objectivity becomes
moot."
In an attempt to abide by this advocacy
journalism,' Rivera says he tries to do many
things.
Me tries to highlight realities that need some
attention. .
He tries to do what other shows are not doing,
not in an attempt to "be offbeat, but just to
cover necessary corners that aren't being
covered."
He tries to do what he does best.
And what Rivera says Rivera does best is to
report about real life.
Real life
The real life of Lenny Bruce, independent of
the Dustin HoffmanValerie Perrine image,
accompanied by a film, documentary of Bruce
and his problems with drugs and the police, and
complete with Bruce's 19-year-old daughter
Kitty as a guest.
The real life of drug abuse and poverty in
Harlem.
The real life of the Oifford Irvings.
Rivera and his staff dedde what topics Good
Night America will feature, from "the super
frivolous to the heavy and profound." This range
is a legitimate one, he says, and one on which he
hopes he. can expand so that Good Night
American does not become a New York -based
program.
"We know the things that are of interest to
use, just the six of us. We try to project from the
theory-hopefully the correct theory-that we
are representative of a large segment of the
population and the things that are of interest to
us are of some interest to the people who are
watching the program."
Letters Rivera receives from readers seem to
agree with him, he says, because they represent a
variety of reasons for watching the show.
Positive feedback
"The range we get in letters-and that's really
the only positive feedback I get the live
audience isn't really representative of the
television audience the letters indicate a broad
spectrum of reasons and that's cool," he says,
"that's cool. I just hope that people take a little
away with them. I hope that in some way the
show is educational or informative aside from
being educational."
If, on the Good Night America, he does
anything differently than other talk or news
show hosts, "it's just maybe to look harder for
those kinds of topics that I think 1 can, in some
way by presenting to the American people, prick
their consciences and cause some kind of
movement, some kind of change on that issue,"
says Geraldo Rivera, the man who was a
storefront lawyer before becoming a broadcaster.
The man who says big breaks don't exist, but
if they did, his would be being hired by WABC in
1970, because before that he never had any
intentions of being on television.
The man who believes that, in television
journalism, "if you think you can gimmick your
way through or think you can dazzle them with
your style or your footwork, you're just real
wrong because you can do that maybe with one
shot, if you're on television once', or five times,
or ten times. But when, it's your life, when it's
your career, that's what you have to do, I mean
you have to work hard or people will see right
through you."
The man who can end an interview by saying:
"And. . .1 think I'd better go to work now."
The man who is Good Night America.
Professor
criticizes
Exon's
tax policy
Continued from p.l
He said some incentives, such as tax rebates for users of small
amounts of fuel, should be instituted into the income tax system.
Evans said federal officials could devise more imaginative tax
incentives to curb energy consumption.
"A junior or senior-level class could come up with better ideas
about how to conserve energy than what the President has done,"
Evans said.
'Enlightened' aid
Evans also was critical of U.S. foreign policy.
"Our policy should be more toward enlightened assistance
rather than a policy of paying off local dictators," Evans said. "We
spend aii too much in guns rather than in feed and other aid."
Evans also criticized Exon and his state tax policy. He said local
and state taxes, as they stand now, are unfair.
Evans told of a friend who lost about $10,000 in farm revenue
last year. He paid $3,000 in property taxes, Evans said. He said
Exon has not introduced the legislation needed to standardize
taxation.
Evans, an army veteran, ran for the House of Representatives in
the old third district in 1 958.
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