Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then-previous positions and wrote, in sorrow and in anger, editorials calling for Nixon's resignation or impeachment. In a column published by all of the Hearst newspapers, Editor in Chief William Randolph Hearst Jr. said that the President "seems to have a moral blind spot." The Omaha World-Herald saw him "as a man incapable of providing the moral leadership which the United States is entitled to expect from its President." The Chicago Tribune deplored his "lack of concern for high principles" and "lack of commitment to the high ideals of public office." (See box page...
...affair was a landmark event in our struggle against the American imperialists who were waging the cold war. My visit to the United States the preceding fall had seemed to herald a promising shift in U.S. policy toward our country, but now-thanks to the U-2 -the honeymoon was over...
...current case resulted from two Miami Herald editorials in September 1972. Both acidly criticized Pat L. Tornillo Jr., a teachers' union executive and then a candidate in a legislative primary."We cannot say it would be illegal", the Herald advised, "but certainly it would be inexcusable of the voters if they sent Pat Tornillo to Tallahassee." Tornillo twice appeared at Herald offices with rebuttals and asked that the paper print them or risk violation of Florida's 1913 right-to-reply statute. Herald editors refused...
...lower court had erred. The majority opinion stated that "to assure fairness in campaigns, the assailed candidate has to be provided an equivalent opportunity to respond; otherwise, not only would the candidate be hurt, but also the people would be deprived of both sides of the controversy." The Herald appealed...
...comments and questions from the U.S. Supreme Court Justices last week were any guide, the Barron argument will be rebuffed. Chief Justice Warren Burger asked rhetorically: "If Tornillo goes out and hires a hall to castigate the Miami Herald, should the newspaper get half his time?" Justice Harry Blackmun remarked that the First Amendment was designed to protect press freedom, not to compel full debate on all issues: that is, a free press has a right to take stands that some people might consider unfair...