Word: gordon
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...will decide what shows win Corporation funds. Questions of balance and objectivity in programming will be resolved by a joint CPB-PBS committee. The Nixon administration did not run PBS out of business, but it now controls public television and inhibits innovation to an unprecedented extent. Says Barbara Gordon of New York's WNET "Now in management meetings you hear people saying, 'Oh we can't do that program--we won't get money from CPB next year...
...GORDON LIGHTFOOT--Lightfoot is a fine old folkie getting better with age. An excellent guitarist, he also has a deep, hypnotic voice which fits his Canadian lumberjack image. He gives concerts in Boston all too rarely...
...GORDON LIGHTFOOT--Sun. Dec. 3 at Symphony Hall...
These are only a few of the lesser-known cases. Elsewhere, numerous reporters have been jailed. Others, like Joe Kraft, an eminently respectable columnist, have had their home phones tapped and been followed by the FBI. For a scary few minutes, Watergate conspirator Gordon Liddy thought he was under orders to kill Jack Anderson (he had only been told to "get" him by non-lethal means) and was ready to do the 007 thing for dear old CREEP...
...newspaper not to publish any news items, and the newspaper must obey that gag for as long as it takes to appeal. By that time the item may no longer be newsworthy." The dispute's background bears out that bleak interpretation. In 1971 Federal District Judge E. Gordon West ordered journalists covering the public hearing of a conspiracy case against a local civil rights leader not to write about he proceeding. West fined Adams and Dickinson $300 each when they ignored his directive, issued, he said, "to avoid undue publicity...