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...mark his birthday last year, friends roasted Allen Harold Neuharth, 56, with a bogus interview printed under the logo of the Cocoa (Fla.) Today, a newspaper he helped launch in 1966. "We're pushing for a Pulitzer this year," the fictive Neuharth remarks at one point. In what category? "Profit. Er, make that 'progress...
...service." Last week the Gannett News Service, which provides national reporting for the 82 Gannett-owned dailies, won the prestigious Pulitzer Gold Medal for its investigation of financial improprieties committed by the Pauline Fathers, a small order of monks in eastern Pennsylvania. The award was sweet vindication for Al Neuharth, Gannett's chairman and president. Best known for making the chain the largest and most consistently profitable in the U.S., Neuharth has lately been on a tireless campaign to make it one of the most respected as well. "The Gold Medal," he says, "is gratifying recognition of the pretty...
...steered clear of big-city competition. Instead, Gannett has concentrated on small-and medium-sized towns with only one daily. The stereotypical Gannett paper has a circulation of 40,000, profit margins that dazzle Wall Street and a reputation for editorial lassitude. Defending his preference for local monopolies, Neuharth once said: "I don't dislike fighting, I just like winning...
...journalism professor emeritus Fred Friendly. New York Press Lawyer Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr. called it "outrageous." Fumed Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe, an expert on the Constitution: "There will be no need to gag the press if the stories can be choked off at the source." Said Allen Neuharth, chairman of the Gannett newspaper chain that brought the suit: "This decision is a signal that those judges who share the philosophy of secret trials can now run Star Chamber justice...
Most journalists would not yet agree with Allen Neuharth, head of the Gannett newspaper chain, that in this respect, the Supreme Court has moved "above the law." But the trend is clear and alarming, from the denial of confidentiality of sources to surprise newsroom searches (see LAW). Not only the press is affected. The search decision can send the cops into psychiatrists' or lawyers' offices as well. The latest court ruling that pretrial hearings and possibly trials themselves may be closed to press and public is reprehensible, among other reasons because it could lead to collusion-behind closed...