Word: monitoring
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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...
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...
...response was unlikely to mollify congressional critics like Ohio Democratic Senator John Glenn, who sponsored a proposal to appoint a civilian panel to oversee safety at DOE facilities. A watered-down version has become law, but it allows DOE leeway to monitor the network. "There is no evidence the DOE can police itself," says Michael Clark, president of the Environmental Policy Institute in Washington. The agency's weapons-production personnel, he adds, "are a rogue bureaucracy that is out of control...