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...public-trial guarantee belongs only to the criminally accused, wrote Stewart, not to the public itself. He specifically refused to concede that the press or the public possesses a constitutional right, under the First Amendment, to attend criminal trials. Even if such a right of "access" did exist, Stewart went on, it would have to yield to a defendant's guarantee of a fair trial...
...what counts, and the balance is tilting against the press. As a result, a backlash against the courts has begun in Congress, with the introduction of many bills designed to shore up the rights of journalists. That is a mixed blessing. Spelling out rights that were assumed to exist under the general protection of the First Amendment may very well result in limiting those rights. Most of the press would much rather not run to Congress for protection against the courts. Yet if the courts continue on their present course, journalists will have little alternative...
Ultimately the question of freedom of the press comes down to the question of freedom, period. Freedom exists both for good and bad, for the responsible and the irresponsible. Freedom only for the good, only for the right, would not be free dom at all. Freedom that hurts no one is impossible and a free press will sometimes hurt. That fact must be balanced against the larger fact that this freedom does not exist for the benefit of the press but for the benefit of all. In the majority of countries, judges are in effect only executioners and journalists...
Brennan did not address the issue, but it is clear that the EEOC can obtain court-ordered affirmative action, including quotas, if it proves past discrimination. Most affirmative-action programs exist because employers cannot get federal contracts without them. Last week the Government said it would no longer buy from Uniroyal, charging that the company had balked at setting up an affirmative-action program for women. Uniroyal is only the 21st company to be so penalized in 15 years, but it is the biggest-with $35 million in outstanding Government contracts...
...same window, clean." Soundstream's enthusiastic president, Thomas G. Stockham Jr., who has been working on the process since 1958 and may be called its U.S. pioneer, puts it simply: "Digital recording to sound as writing is to language. A thousand years from now, digital recordings could still exist in their original quality...