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...When regional telephone companies began offering Caller ID, a device that displays the phone numbers -- including unlisted ones -- of incoming calls, many people viewed it as an invasion of privacy. Several states have since passed laws requiring phone companies to offer callers a "blocking" option so that they can choose whether or not to disclose their numbers. Pennsylvania has banned the service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cyberpunks and The Constitution | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

...telephoned San Juan International Airport and was put through to the gate where Feldstein was about to board a flight to St. Thomas. The reporter could hear Feldstein being paged on the public address system, but there was no response. A few minutes later, a gate agent took the caller's name and phone number and then checked with a man who sounded like Feldstein. She then came back on the line to say that the gate was very busy and that she would make sure that the First Class flight attendant would get a message to the presidential also...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporters' Notebook Extra | 4/5/1991 | See Source »

...press is catching flak from all sides. While many Americans charge that the media coverage has been too critical, a small but vocal minority argue that the press has passively accepted the Pentagon line and has given short shrift to views opposing the war. A caller on CBS's America Tonight contended that antiwar views are being censored by the media. "If you listen to the radio shows, you'll find people being cut off on a regular basis," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Just Whose Side Are They On? | 2/25/1991 | See Source »

...Caller: I'm an editor and I wanted to know where that bong came from. Do the executive editors have one of their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 2/15/1991 | See Source »

...Caller: That's okay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 2/15/1991 | See Source »

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