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However, the agreement was only tentative and not binding. Several film societies--each as the Quincy Cinema Guild and films Across the River which show popular classic--did not even participate in drawing up the guidelines...
When Media General, Inc. bought out the Scudders for $24 million in 1970, it found the News overstaffed and losing money. Media General sought to fire 50 editorial employees for economy reasons, and the newly organized Newspaper Guild unit at the News called a strike in May 1971. It was the following April before the company could resume publication...
...base for a sizable army of political reporters who feel they will now have to cover the coming campaign under something of a partisan cloud, their neutrality compromised in the eyes of a skeptical public. The endorsement, complained Chairman Ronald Sarro of Washington's Evening Star-Daily News Guild unit, "gives ammunition to those looking for an excuse to attack the press on any grounds." It bothered even those who, while not at all anxious to belabor the press, feel that it should not only be fair but should also be seen to be fair...
Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona observed on the Senate floor that the Guild action "does not surprise me one bit," and reminded his listeners that "many times I have referred to the liberal leaning of some sections of the American press corps." Republican Campaign Director Clark MacGregor thought the Guild "illadvised in openly abandoning the time-honored objective of the American press to confine partisanship to editorial pages...
...dedicated Democrat who learned his labor-union politics in Buffalo, Perlik managed a backhanded mandate for endorsement at last month's annual Guild convention in San Juan. Beaten in his effort to get the convention to endorse McGovern outright, he later won permission for the union's 15-member international executive board to "consider endorsing a candidate for the presidency following the national conventions...