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...Later in the day, when the resolution went before the 2,000 delegates to the convention, Hall sat stonily silent through the discussion and the floor vote; the resolution passed unanimously. Since executive sessions are held in secret and only the later convention meeting was open to the press, newsmen did not know Hall's position until the White House singled him out for praise...
Incredibly, most of Washington's newsmen (like the public at large) have greeted these foreshadowings of Chile, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Soviet Russia and diverse other police states with bleatings about how "it can't happen here...
...Watergate's many side effects has been to evict from the public's attention the figure of the beleaguered reporter languishing in jail for refusing to name his news sources. The investigative reporter triumphant has replaced him and the controversy over disclosing confidential information has shifted from newsmen's notebooks to the Oval Office tapes. But this triumph is illusory. Across the country, reporters, editors and publishers still face a variety of judicial and legislative attacks that threaten basic press freedom...
...newsmen appealed, and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals later rapped West by declaring that "censorship in any form-judicial censorship include-is simply incompatible with the dictates of the constitution and the concepts of free press." It also described the conflict as a "civil libertarian's nightmare." Nevertheless, the appeals court refused to lift either the contempt citation or the fine. Reason: the court said that Dickinson and Adams should have obtained an injunction against West's order before publishing their stories. Because of the Supreme Court's refusal to intervene, that West's would...
...humor. Alabama reporters are aghast at a new state law requiring all journalists covering state news to report their personal finances, list their employers and swear that they have no ties with any firm doing business with the Alabama government. The statute was enacted almost by accident; legislators included newsmen in an ethics bill originally aimed at public officials. That addition and others, it was thought, would kill the entire passage. Instead, the measure was enacted. Two Alabama papers are appealing the law, which carries a sentence of ten years in jail and a $10,000 fine for violators...