Word: medias
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...American Bar Association approved the recommendations of its Advisory Commission on Fair Trial and Free Press last week, no one expected the decision to slip by unnoticed. The Committee-headed by Justice Paul C. Reardon of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court-advocated restricting the information given to mass media during criminal procedings on the grounds that publicity often prejudiced jurors' decisions. There is probably no perfect solution to a conflict as fundamental as the clash between freedom of the press and the right to fair trial. But the loud indignation of the great majority of media representatives seems unjust...
...American Society of Newspaper Editors wanted the ABA's House of Delegates to postpone decisions so that the media could study how jurors are influenced by publicity. But the ABA rightly decided that their committees three-year study justified immediate action. The committee injury documented a problem even media representatives acknowledge is critical: far too often, defendants, are convicted on the basis of what jurors read in newspapers or hear on T.V. instead of what happens in court. Some of this information is never intended for jurors-such as pre-trial hearings on the admissibly of evidence-and none...
...media have focused their ire on the ABA recommendation that judges use the threat of contempt rulings to enforce restrictions on pre-trial publicity. The media have charged that such judicial interference would be a blatant violation of the first amendment...
...JANE BATTEY Media...
Avatar overflows with paranoia in reacting to its oppressor, "the establishment," and hurls hackneyed epithets ("mass media," "dying already half-dead social order") at whoever. "the establishment is." Even WGBH is part of the tyrannical "commercial complex." A column by "Jeremy" carries this irrationality to the extreme, blaming the war rhetoric of General Westmoreland and the new Defense Secretary, "Clark M. Gifford" (sic), on the Record-American...