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Television journalists Frank Reynolds of ABC, Roger Mudd of NBC, Bruce Morton of CBS, and Robert MacNeil of the MacNeil-Lehrer Report, will probably attend. ABC news president Roone Arledge and former CBS news president William Leonard are also expected...
Conditions vary from city to city, but the main problem is the same everywhere: readers and advertisers have trooped off to the suburbs. Says Publishing Analyst John Morton: "It's not that newspapers are dead. It's just that readership has been redistributed." Over the past two decades, for example, the News lost more than half a million readers while Long Island's Newsday upped its circulation 59%, to 507,000, and the Bergen County (N.J.) Record registered a 46% increase...
...magazine article dredges up a little noted 1978 California Court of Appeals decision called Tresemer vs. Barke, which involved the notorious Dalkon Shield intrauterine device. Within two years after Donna Sue Tresemer had a shield inserted in 1972, researchers were learning that the device could be dangerous, but Dr. Morton Barke never contacted Tresemer to warn her. When she finally did have it removed in 1975, she suffered complications that, her lawyer claimed, entitled her to damages from the doctor. A California appeals court endorsed the theory and ruled, apparently for the first time, that a malpractice suit could succeed...
Skull volume and brain weight provided much of the data for intelligence determining scientists in the 1800s. Samuel George Morton, who died in 1851 having collected more than 1000 skulls, tried to prove that a ranking of races could be established objectively by head size. By measuring the volume, which he assumed was directly correlated to intelligence, he hoped to show that Caucasian naturally should be the brightest of all races. He succeeded in his era; however, as Gould clearly demonstrates, Morton used his preconceived notions about race like any high school lab student, using only the data that fitted...
Advertisers, not readers, have placed this unhealthy emphasis on dominance. Morton is convinced that the Washington Star and the Chicago Daily News need not have folded, and the Philadelphia Bulletin and Cleveland Press would not be in such difficulty if their share of the city's advertising was as large as their share of the city's circulation...