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Last week, in a dramatic example of this conflict, Christian Science Monitor editor Katherine Fanning, managing editor David Anable and assistant managing editor David Winder all resigned. The immediate cause: the announcement by the managers of the 80-year-old church-owned paper of plans to reduce the Monitor's size, run less breaking news and cut the staff by one- fourth. Earlier this month, Atlanta Journal and Constitution editor Bill Kovach quit in a dispute with owner Cox Enterprises over the control of budgets, staffing and Washington reporting. Although the two cases differ in specific respects, both boil down...
...financially troubled Monitor, which has spent millions in recent years developing a radio service, a worldwide shortwave operation, a cable TV program and a monthly magazine, the editors were shocked when a cost-cutting proposal they had developed at management's behest was rejected outright in favor of a vastly different plan that would eliminate some of the paper's prized international bureaus. "No self-respecting editor could accept such a downgrading of the importance of the daily newspaper's content and such a compromising of its editorial control and integrity," wrote Anable of the new plan in his letter...
Executives at both Cox and the Monitor deny that they have compromised the hallowed division between editors and publishers. Indeed, they argue that they were simply doing their jobs: serving the interests of readers. John Hoagland Jr., manager of the Christian Science Publishing Society, says the paper's more than $200 million losses since 1961 represented a commitment that could not be maintained indefinitely. "It may be the jewel in the crown of the church," he says of the paper, "but you have to have a crown to have a jewel." The more the Monitor diversifies into other media, says...
MORRIS' activity is only the latest in a long line of problematic events which point out the gaps in fully understanding technology. Are computers private? In the newly computerized business world, it depends on who you are, according to current laws. Employers who regularly monitor employees, retrieving even information which has been eliminated from its creator's files, seem to say the answer...
Thompson also spent $750 consulting attorney Alec Gray on ways to monitor Graham's campaign. On Tuesday night he said he feared election officials might count ballots whose stickers had fallen off, and that there might be "violence at the polls" as a result of Graham's campaign...