Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mayor Fasi of Honolulu, a dedicated public servant battling an impacted Establishment. These days, Frank Fasi, 49, is easier to talk about than read about: since last July, the mayor has barred all interviews between his administration and the reporters from Hawaii's largest newspaper, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin...
...feud began in the fall of 1968, when Fasi, a onetime junk dealer and perennial political campaigner, was making his fourth attempt to win the mayoralty. Both newspapers, the morning Advertiser (circ. 72,000) and the evening Star-Bulletin (circ. 123,000), endorsed his opponent. In one issue, the Bulletin ran a photographic view of Honolulu's memorial to the battleship Arizona, marred by junked automobiles on property incorrectly identified as leased to Fasi. The candidate seethed. He seethed again when the paper enjoined its readers to "Wake Up Hawaii-Vote Republican" beneath a full-page advertisement for Democrat...
Banned Reporters. The feisty mainlander (born in Connecticut) won the election by 16,000 votes. By March, after the Bulletin criticized several Fasi proposals, the mayor went on TV to denounce the paper and urge his constituents to read the Advertiser, "if you want the straight reporting." In June, the mayor barred a Bulletin reporter, whom he considered hostile, from his office. A month later, after a Bulletin series implied collusion between Fasi and a contractor who had won city permission to advertise on the envelopes of civic-center tickets, Fasi banned all Bulletin reporters from all administration offices...
...Advertiser sided with the Bulletin, saying that the ban "interferes with the public's right to know." The American Civil Liberties Union and the American Society of Newspaper Editors, among others, objected on the same grounds. Unfazed, Fasi departed on a worldwide good-will tour, refusing interviews to Associated Press reporters along the way, because the Bulletin subscribes to that wire service. "I was elected to represent all of the people in the community," says Fasi, "not just the chairman of the board or the editor of the Star-Bulletin...
...dropped Y. & R. for Keye, Donna & Pearlstein, council members observed that the new agency was too small for an account that had been given $25 million worth of media placements. The council thereupon shrank Keye, Donna & Pearlstein's new plum by reducing Peace Corps advertising from "major" to "bulletin" status, on grounds that the council had higher-priority campaigns to handle. This action meant that the account was no longer eligible for space or time from the council's pool and that the agency would have to scratch out free media placements on its own. The agency...