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Since the New York Times two months ago announced that movie ads it deemed unfit to print would be restricted to 1-in., unillustrated notices of time and place, the urge to purge has spread. The Seattle Times, Sacramento Bee, Fresno Bee, San Diego Union, Long Beach Independent Press-Telegram, and various lesser papers have either banned sex-film display ads outright or placed so many restrictions on them that advertisers have taken their trade elsewhere...
...past year, and the New York Times grossed $750,000. But publishers are growing weary of watching their entertainment pages become newsprint versions of Times Square, and of being constantly outsmarted by porn princes. "They brought it on themselves," says C.K. McClatchy, editor of the Sacramento and Fresno Bees. "We tried to police them, but it got too tough. They always had a gimmick." One theater, McClatchy recalls, submitted an ad featuring a woman singing into what appeared to be a microphone; it was a cleverly disguised penis...
Michael Woolf Fresno, Calif...
...hire a competitor's employee than to train someone new, and that the easiest way to win accounts from a rival is to hire the brokers who service them. Even the firms that count themselves aggrieved may be wooing away employees from rivals. Only a month before its Fresno office defected, Bateman Eichler hired five members of the trading department of Mitchum, Jones & Templeton Inc. And Loeb Rhoades, in response to the Bache complaint, asserted that Bache two years ago had lured away its entire foreign institutional department. Loeb Rhoades did not sue, says a spokesman, because "those...
...World readers-which means that, because Western news organizations dominate the international flow of information, such news often goes unreported. "If a new steel mill is built in Mexico, that fact is very newsworthy in Mexico," says Roger Tatarian, professor of journalism at the University of California's Fresno campus. "It is not necessarily of much interest in Peoria...