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To: elpolvo who wrote (101623)	6/7/2020 8:55:17 PM
From: Ron	2 Recommendations Recommended By abuelita Glenn Petersen Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 104216

In the summer of 1968, just before I got drafted, they held the first big student protest of the War in Vietnam. I was the only member of the media who covered it, because I had inside info.. many friends were in it, fellow students. However, the Chancellor of the University declared that university media would NOT cover anti-war protests. Keep in mind this is the home of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, KOMU-TV, newscasts produced by professional and student journalists, the Columbia Missourian a general circulation newspaper and an affiliated radio station. Needless to say, the journalism people were outraged. But I was a part-time employee of a nearby radio station which was not university affiliated and I made 5 bucks every time I fed a news story to the AP and UPI in Kansas City. Heck I needed money. So I covered the protest, fed the story to the wires. The chancellor, and my department chair blew a gasket because the byline was - KXEO Radio. I am told my department chair said, "What the hell is KXEO doing covering a university protest 40 miles away- and we didn't cover it!" Naturally since it was on the wire, the university media picked it up, so it got covered anyway. I made ten bucks, and the university honchos never found out who fed the wire services the story. A year later, the protests got huge, the students blockaded the chancellor's house for awhile... and they were widely covered. And I got to read about it when a friend sent me the clippings to my barracks in the US Army. This was the equipment I used to cover the protest: The times, my friend, how they have changed. And I don't have the wire story either, printed on paper, ink faded long gone. Tape audio gone too... now they send kid reporters out as multi-media journalists, armed with a smartphone. It would be tougher now, I think.