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Though they have personal preferences like anybody else, political reporters cherish their neutrality in news stories as the cornerstone of their credibility. But credibility suffered a serious setback two weeks ago when Newspaper Guild President Charles A. Perlik Jr., 48, mounted a chair at George McGovern's press headquarters in Miami Beach to proclaim: "McGovern sounds the beat we can march to. Let's fall in line behind him." The executive board of the journalists' union had endorsed a presidential candidate for the first time in the Guild's 39-year history. It was an extraordinary...
...greeted Perlik's pronouncement, mostly from the working journalists, who now form a minority within the 33,000-member union; the rest include such noneditorial employees as secretaries, business-office personnel and maintenance people. Petitions were quickly circulated to condemn the leadership's "outrageous, arbitrary action." The Guild's Minneapolis and Washington-Baltimore units disavowed Perlik's action...
...more esoteric or historical films. In May, the Film Studies Council drafted a set of Ground Rules, delimiting student operations to "films of a more educational or experimental nature." Several of the commercial societies helped draft the guidelines, but two societies showing the most commercial films--the Quincy Cinema Guild and Films across the River--did not participate...
...sassy reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Then he was fired for having written a piece in Evergreen Review that criticized his paper, himself and all others concerned with the merchandising of Ronald Haeberle's exclusive photographs of the My Lai massacre. * Eszterhas, backed by the American Newspaper Guild, protested the dismissal, and the case went to Arbitrator Calvin L. McCoy for judgment. In ruling against Eszterhas, McCoy asked: "Can you bite the hand that feeds you and insist on staying for future banquets?" Eszterhas, now writing for Rolling Stone, maintained that the Plain Dealer "hired...
...appointed day I showed up at the Herald Traveler plant in the South End and was introduced to the Shop Steward of the American Newspaper Guild and to the City Editor. Then I was given directions to the men's room and to the copy paper cabinet, advice on how to use a telephone headset and was placed at an old green desk not far from the tables, phonebooks, radios, tvs, and telephones called the City Desk. It was very quiet in there that Sunday afternoon. I was putting all my new toys away and was wondering to whom...