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A meriea's media have crcat ed a st iclry sit uation for
zAthetnstlvcs.
JLTlu Early in the president id c&npii;:i, thry por
trayed Democratic challenger Walter Mondale ts a per
ennial wimp, A loser from start to finish.
They may have been right But now, faced with the
prospect of having to generate Interesting stories, the.
media are trying to generate a race whtt-e there isnt
one.
Bonald Reagan will defeat Walter Honda!? on Nov. 6,
end he will win easily. In the words of Joe Namath, I
gu grantee ft.
Ci:2 lCIC at the kval and national newspapers
srtd broadcast media and you'd swear Walter Idondale is
about to pass a sagging and agmg president.
First, i!onda3e oatdchtted the Great Communicator
in a ore- hot &xir Oct. 7 in Louisville. A CB3 News New
York Times poll taken nht iSlcr the debate showed that
the American puhSe thought Mondale had barely edged
the president. 43 to S4 portent Another pc2 had l-on-daie
wmning by 1 percent.
The next day. the national media showed pictures of
UrecUle mare hing triumphantly through New York Cty
as iffce had just taken Troy. They described his victory as
Astounding'' and Verw helming
Eeagn was pictured at a speech with a bumbling
balloonist in the background. Commentary framing his
speech used words like lioundenn" arid "defensn.?,"
Nobodyjaded the debate that way except the media.
'fe Q"SS Nens New York Times poll said Heapn's
margin before the debstevias 59 to 33 percent-After the
debate, it was 53 to 33. Mondale gained, but Reagan
didnt lose much. Only 4 percent of those polled were
undecided
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aI!nt te president b old, really eld the media
whines to nt e"ery dzy. Su re, the nun is prcb ably incap
able cf ct.kirg coherent decisions as to what to est
toly, k! alone atout the future of this country.
Bat it Lint the president who attracts today's self-
centered yuppies and college students; it's his economic
policies. And those economic po!ick3 wont chanjs
whether the president can tie hb shorn or not.
As long as there is a Republican in tha Vliite House,
the suburban upper middle cbss-will prosper. They
wont vote for Mondile just because Beagan played the
senile old fool on television Oct. 7.
By the tune the msdia were through butchering the
results of the first debate, Americans, by a 63 to 17
percent margin, thought tlondale had wen the debate.
Those figures are a for cry from the public's first
instincts.
Still. Eeagan has a lead in every state, a wide lead in
most states. The lead will be more than solidified by the
ti.T.3 the second debate encb Sunday evening in Kansas
Citj, Ho.
In Kansas City, Reagan will be tha reasscrfeg grandpa
vreVe come to know and lecthe cr tenv. Hall chuckle
here and chortle there and all doubts about him will
vanish into the Elissouri air.
Should Rca;;n Ixe the debate, thcr-'h, no matter
what tle raedia says, the Araerkaii public vote for
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Useless facts' test TV viewing time, not IQ
In vw cf ir.creasd restrie- fact, is the narr.e of a red wine science
ead, but I like to
the national con-
now and asain. I
ten into the game, I admit Tve
tried a little Trivial Pursuit myself
135 million years because
the Earth's cliinsle changed."
tions on the bringing of alcoholic produced in the region of Spain tapped in the other day by watch'
bTrsirtoMonal&Miunx, also called Eiqja. While we enjoyed ing a TV show and reading irq
surprised to see the the Spanish raus3C provided by evening newspaper, menoa, iv
d prosnotinj? wine to the band daring the half time got to teHvoti, I got this uneas
out of intellectual curiosity, of Vvhew! I wondered why I hadnt
course, If you try it, remember seen any pterodactyls lately.
seorebor3
Bii? Bed fans at last Saturday's how. we beliew that the next feeling that we know mere than
fvxtball game. Xk Be-eeg Hieja time an attempt is made to put we should know for our own
read the scoreboard during half something on the scoreboard in a gooa
iaitgaage other than Lnsh, it
wuld be wise to cens- scme-
A pitiful attempt at Spanish, to one wii adequate knowled :e cf
time.
intended, to imi'xre a. Spar-ish-
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Set about presidential candi
dates, the eectiamy or anything
that raatters. X'e dent seem to
know the rst thing about that.
Bat we can answer the touh
C-estksns, the ones that barn
deep a the back efcer minds
Toa know wbdah of the AEmatt
bnxhers did Cher walk down the
aaale with? .at kid sister did
battel give Barbie Do3? Who are
ATter rra yaass of Trivial Bur-
SKtX decades w&h the Guineas
Ekxi cfWerld Eeccrds, countless
call-in contests, and a gire of
gaane &h.7s-s, cur minds areawaah
ta.B-t we lenre it All
"WeVe eisi gat a trivial prrsi
crrt Brcrnt tr.er brans about
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tr.rt he can name the f.-.-e
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that this game tests our trhta IQ
only, not our actual IQ. The two
are lt years apart. .
-After missing three straight
questions from a sample cf the
Baby Boomer edition pulled from
& woman's magaaine, ray wife,
Susan, got a little down in the
mouth. I caat play this game'
she declared in disgust, i assured
her that not knowing the name of
the actor who played Ozzie and
Harriet's next-door neighbor, or
what tetcrgsHactic hh school
Supergirl attended had no bear
ing whatsoever on her totellgertce.
In fact, I said, 1 might befjn to
wonder about her if she dl i"know
the answers. These questions
dont test your !Ch they test how
mud tclr.lsien you wat ch.
And that's the hidden attrac
tion cf these games. Eight-year-old
Tora mte ben an equ al foot ing
with mom and dad on some of
the questions. Aflrr all dad may
know who Konrad Adenauer ls
but Tcmmie's got il all ovtr him
when the questions turn into
something like "Describe the
Thompson TwmV or "What the
coler cfCyCiii Super's hair?
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A slow dnp can waste up to
1 5 to 20 gallons a &zy, an d a toilet
can leak up to 100 gallons daily."
Now this kind cf information
loosed on an mnocent American
public could kad to some pretty
ridierJeus converssiions at your
local cocktail party. -
"Big Bea, known as a huge
dock in London's Westminster
Palace, is a name Cat actually
refers to the bt3 in the tower,
nam? a tcr t-r L.r-irrn xiaj, iae
cfwcilJ when the
bc2 to nrttZrJ in ICCl" Now
The LV.rrcrJry cf Al Aahar
wai found :J in Ccir rjjpt, in
t he year 72 ar d : rJTrs decrees
Li areai ra t!i it Llt::.?e La.v, bus
inesiS ar.d itwwi Tha s n-ii.-ul:::s.
Ci:t here's rr j favorite,
'AecrrJIrg t. c,Ires Politi
cal Bletiontiy, the raare recent
team fr egthitJwlJth refers to
an tr.t:.:r-f::X is cH;te snob."
f aT e is t ..: .:hd to hu cp inion, of
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Junlaf h s f.:hr:!:r n-dng his
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