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...handful of Washington-based journalists with a law degree, Beckwith regularly covers the Supreme Court and the Justice Department for TIME. The assignment led him to Sirica's courtroom a year ago, and from there to a close association with the judge. "Sirica has always been accessible to newsmen," Beckwith says, "but he has a highly developed sense of decorum, and is well respected by the press for his discretion." Beckwith spent hours with the judge: in his chambers, in his car and in his den at home. Says Beckwith, who graduated from the University of Texas Law School...
...guilty and remain silent"; 2) perjury masking the motivations of the defendants had occurred during the McCord-Liddy trial; and 3) "others involved in the Watergate operation were not identified during the trial, when they could have been by those testifying." After he had read the letter and watched newsmen rush for telephones, the import struck Sirica again, almost like a physical blow. He felt pains in his chest, ordered a recess in the proceedings and retired to his chambers to rest...
...your article "The Great Slap Flap" [Dec. 3]: I am disgusted and angered by the press and its apparent personal feud with President Nixon. What gall TIME has to say that the White House attempt to use this story to discredit press criticism seems heavyhanded to most newsmen...
Dawn is still some time away when newsmen in radio stations across the country begin to comb the wire-service bulletins and newspapers for the makings of their early programs. Their reach is enormous,* but the product is generally predictable. At its frequent worst, radio news consists of clatters and bleeps strung together by an announcer who has learned to rip and read wire-service copy. Even the morning shows of larger independent stations and network affiliates rarely rise above an intelligent presentation of the moment's headlines...
...city rooms of many American newspapers are cousins in dishevelment: battered typewriters, mounds of gnawed pencils and crumbling gum erasers, a perpetual blizzard of paper. Nor would turn-of-the-century newsmen have any trouble recognizing many contemporary composing rooms with their mastodonic Linotype machines (first used in 1886) that engorge hot metal and spit out lines of type at a lumbering pace. Of all commercial activities, few have seemed more immune to technological progress than the production of daily papers. But the pace of change is now accelerating. In a small but growing number of offices, reporters are writing...