Word: broadcasts
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...detests leaks, journalists live by them, and press conduct is the other great issue of the Jewell affair. Is it right to print in every newspaper and broadcast on every television station in the world the name of a man who anonymous sources have said is the subject of an investigation but who has not been arrested or charged? Is it right to explore every aspect of his life, to sit outside his home with TV cameras for weeks on end? Is it right to sacrifice an individual's privacy to the abstract principle of the public's right...
Jewell may have a hard time winning a libel suit, because he would have to prove that something written or broadcast was false. If a court decides that Jewell is a public figure, he will also have to prove that the falsehood was intentional or made in reckless disregard of the truth. This issue of whether Jewell is a public figure is "a tough borderline case," says Vincent Blasi, a First Amendment expert at the Columbia University School...
...Sending 6,000 students the same message is not the function of e-mail. This is a broadcast," he said. "While an occasional short message sent at low use times may not harm the system, increased broadcasts of longer messages will bring it down so that...
...rates in the nation. After its 1980s slump, Iowa lost one of its congressional seats--the five it now claims are the state's smallest delegation since the 1850s. A politically conservative state, it is perhaps no coincidence that John Wayne was born in Iowa and Ronald Reagan once broadcast from there. And its overwhelmingly Republican delegation in Congress could become more so if Jim Lightfoot can unseat native Hawkeye and lone Democratic Congressman Tom Harkin...
BORN: Sept. 30, 1943, Bessemer, Mich. EDUCATION: Gogebic Community College, A.A., 1963; Northern Michigan U, B.A., 1965; Michigan State U, M.A., 1970 FAMILY: Wife, JoLee; two children RELIGION: Presbyterian MILITARY: Army, 1966-68 OCCUPATION: Broadcast journalist POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: 417 Pine Street, Green...