Word: code
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent months, the newspapers' owners have discovered that the regular diet of sex, scandal and sensationalism has resulted in parliamentary dyspepsia and growing public outrage. With the threat of government press curbs looming, 20 of the country's leading newspapers last week signed a broad code of ethics, which includes the hiring of mediators, ostensibly to slap down editors and reporters who place exploitation before fairness...
...code, which carries no penalties, was written by the Newspaper Publishers Association, a group that includes both tabloids and the so-called qualities, like the Times and the Guardian. It was formulated, admits Arthur Davidson, legal director of Associated Newspapers, because of a belief that "legislation of some sort would come about." The British press, which lacks the protection of a constitutional right to free expression, is already being constrained by a law, passed in May, that sharply restricts what it can print on national-security matters. And a government-appointed group is to report next year on what additional...
...Wisconsin, Delgado helped draft part of an administrative code under which "demeaning" remarks directed toward individuals or members of a group can be punished with measures ranging from academic probation to expulsion...
...panelist Charles Baron, who heads the CivilLiberties Union of Massachusetts, said that theWisconsin code is unconstitutional because thedisciplinary action taken hinges on the content ofthe derogatory comment...
...Sally Greenberg, civil rights director ofthe New England Anti-Defamation League, criticizedthe Wisconsin code as being "over broad...