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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1976
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street, Bennington Vermont 05201.
Editorial urges Mt Anthony Union High School to publish voter comments on the controversy beginning with assurances by officials that these remarks would be public. The piece argues failing to release them harms credibility and fuels claims the board won t listen to the public. It notes some comments may be cryptic or obscene but stresses openness.
A long opinion piece critiques government secrecy over school comments and urges leadership in Mt Anthony to settle the issue, then shifts to a Keynesian/GNP critique. It cites Ford administration optimism about 7.5 percent quarterly GNP growth and economist Robert Lekachman, who argues GNP masks who benefits or pays the costs, calling economics the dismal science.
The piece revisits Robert L. Heilbroner’s three approaches topically attitudinally and civilizational to the human prospect, warning that growth-driven consumption risks population squeezes and resource depletion. It cites looming population surges, potential wars, famine, plague, and environmental damage, arguing that without radical change the standard of living will decline and technological shifts are unlikely without effort and will.
The Banner notes an amusing incident as a staffer asked Democratic National Headquarters for press credentials for the July national convention. The reply was a polite form letter saying no decisions had been made about press credentials for college newspapers.
Letters to the editor defend and broaden balance after Tom Braden’s Nuclear Power Ugly Facts column. Morton Goldman and A Parks Honeywell rebut Braden and caution against anti nuclear scare tactics. They urge consideration of peer opinion, safety analysis, and democratic process in energy policy debates.
To the Editor of The Banner, on Town Meeting Day Vermont’s 70,000 voters chose Ford and Carter with strong showings in their parties. The letter urges timely reporting of Thursday caucus results and the names of delegates bound or uncommitted to state conventions, noting public interest in delegate commitments.
The piece weighs The Post’s Watergate legacy against a backlash to investigative reporting. It argues journalism errs publicly and stresses the need to weigh whether private facts serve the public interest. It notes three cited Post stories and urges reporters to ask whom the truth matters to before publishing.
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