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...same day that the Times saw fit to print, 17 newspapers, magazines, TV and radio networks and professional news organizations filed a joint friend-of-the-court brief on the Nebraska gag order, which is now before the full Supreme Court. The press brief concedes that pretrial publicity can compromise a defendant's rights. But it argues that a judge has other ways to protect those rights; such methods have included ordering jurors not to read or view news accounts of the trial, sequestering the jurors, and delaying or moving the trial if the pretrial atmosphere in a community...
...Estate, a Washington-based group dedicated to exposing covert U.S. intelligence activities. Colby favors a law that would make it a crime for a former CIA employee to reveal secrets he learned at the agency. But liberals in Congress and most journalists are certain to oppose any such sweeping gag rule...
Have you heard the one about the dog with a bucket of hot water who chased two people riding on a tandem bicycle? Do you know why Lucky Pierre is a sui generis joke in English-language humor, or why the gag whose punchline is "Don't make any waves" is one of America's favorites...
...reunion is viscerally revealing. The humor, and there is quite a bit of it, is abrasive, anal, ethnic and sexually slanderous. One running gag is about the diminutive genitals of the bartender, whose nickname is "Biggie...
...final deadline, and refused to share with his editors his knowledge of any FBI disclosures. Though KQED-TV Reporter Marilyn Baker talked regularly with him on his private home phone, Examiner staffers on the story were routinely denied access. Says Examiner Reporter Carol Pogash: "There was a gag on us. We were told to cool it, not to pursue our leads...