Word: farbers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mighty New York Times has been a melancholy place: its presses stopped by a strike, its newsroom empty; one of its reporters, Myron Farber, yo-yoing between jail cell and court hearings on contempt charges; the paper itself hit by a $100,000 fine for contempt and a $5,000-a-day fine for every day it continued to defy a New Jersey court in the same Farber case. To top it all off, in its legal difficulties, the Times seemed to be losing public support and press sympathy-partly because of "terrible coverage," says A.M. Rosenthal, the paper...
...Farber case is a complicated legal tangle that lends itself to tendentious simplicities. In lawyers and journalists alike, it seems to bring out the worst in exaggerated rhetoric and absolutist moralizing...
...Farber maintains that he has not revealed the identity of any confidential sources to his publisher (or anyone else). He also believes that the manuscript, like his notes, should be privileged. Arguing that the book is simply a red herring, Eugene Scheiman, one of his lawyers, insisted: "Authors have First Amendment rights. Woodward and Bernstein were not required to turn over their manuscripts. No one would argue that they would have to reveal the identity of Deep Throat...
With the issues becoming tangled, Farber and the Times last week seemed to be losing friends even in the press. Washington Post Columnist Haynes Johnson wrote: "All those high-sounding statements about journalistic integrity and courageously protecting news sources in defense of the Constitution now appear compromised." Warned former Wall Street Journal Editor Vermont Royster: "Not the least of the risks we run in raising the banner of the First Amendment on every occasion is of appearing arrogant to the people...
Choosing discretion over valor, Farber and his paper finally decided to hand over the manuscript to Judge William Arnold, who is trying the Jascalevich case. Arnold accepted the book, commenting that it might make "interesting reading." Surprisingly, Jascalevich's attorney, Raymond Brown, initially objected to Farber's offer, saying that he is after the notes, not the book. But some wonder about his motives as well. It has been suggested that Brown does not really want to see Farber's notes, knowing that they are actually useless to his case. He just wants Farber to refuse...