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...light aircraft from major airfields. It now seems likely that there will be more such bills, and they may get more serious consideration. Some safety experts support such a segregation of aircraft. "You just can't have complete freedom of movement for all and total safety," contends James Gannett, a senior engineer test pilot for Boeing. "You've got to put the big guys in one place and the little guys in another." Most airline pilots, unwilling to bully their lesser brothers, are not necessarily in favor of an outright ban, but they do want the private pilots...
...contributions do not appear to have affected news coverage of the casino gambling. One small exception: participating papers neglected to reveal their financial stake until forced to by last month's disclosure of campaign spending. Still, the Gannett Co.'s four Florida dailies declined to contribute, despite a personal appeal from Askew to chain President Allen Neuharth. The Miami News last week printed a letter from 47 employees objecting to the paper's contribution. "Nobody is censoring our copy," says Miami Herald Reporter Pat Riordan, "but this whole thing raises the appearance of a conflict of interest...
...Udall, whose home-town paper in Tucson was sold to a chain last year, wants the Government to give local owners special tax breaks and begin a three-year study of the effects of concentrated ownership. This seems a very bad idea to Allen Neuharth, the head of the Gannett chain, which bought the Tucson paper and owns more dailies (73 in 28 states) than anyone else. Udall's proposal has not got far yet. Perhaps concentrated control over newspapers is not the dramatically fearsome thing it once was, before television and radio news coverage and the growth...
...chains all defend as wholesome diversity rather than cynical moneymaking indifference at headquarters. In the 1976 election, one of Knight-Ridder's Southern papers endorsed Gerald Ford instead of Southerner Jimmy Carter, while the Detroit Free Press in Ford's home state chose Carter. On the Gannett papers-"without any guidance at all from corporate headquarters," says Neuharth-endorsements went about 60% Ford, 40% Carter. The well-managed, publicly owned Gannett papers have been described not too unfairly by a critic as "one of the largest, most profitable and least influential journalistic enterprises in the country." Gannett papers...
...community, who had the power and the disposition to blow the whistle on the people in that community." A crusty editor willing to risk all for what he believes best for his town is an honored American institution. Such paragons still exist among local papers, agrees John C. Quinn, Gannett editorial director. But Quinn knows others where "the editorial position is discovered after the publisher comes back from lunch," presumably after consulting the local fat cats...