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...TIME story last spring that provoked White House consternation. The background: On Feb. 22 Correspondent Sandy Smith filed an exclusive report stating that three years earlier Attorney General John Mitchell had authorized FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to place taps on the phones of a number of Washington newsmen. Two days later, Smith discovered that phones of a number of White House staffers had also been bugged, apparently in an Administration effort to trace leaks to reporters...
Mitchell's attorneys have since vowed that they were meeting with both Mitchells in their apartment at the time of the call to Correspondent Angelo. The real Martha was inimitable herself last week, as always. Irked by the hordes of newsmen frequently hovering outside her Fifth Avenue apartment, Martha emerged twice from the building Tuesday night, and was met both times by Associated Press Reporter Judy Yablonky. The second time she grabbed the doorman's hat and threw it, striking Reporter Yablonky in the face. She then struck the newswoman twice on top of the head and threatened...
...been paid out of tax revenue to improve President Nixon's home at San Clemente, Calif. The money, the Government spokesman explained, had been spent, for the most part, on security measures requested by the Secret Service. Two and a half weeks later, under pressure from inquiring newsmen, the White House dug further and reported a fresh figure more than ten times higher-$456,352. But West Coast reporters remained skeptical; there still seemed to be improvements that had not been accounted for. Lo and behold, last week the White House came up with a revision of its revision...
...fast that liberal or conservative commentators do not have time to slant the news. Quite obviously, the kind of nervous system that used to be attracted to city rooms in The Front Page's era now finds its true home in TV control booths. The keyed-up newsmen working for CBS are good at their jobs, at least in part because they are juiced by the constant demand to make decisions at speed. Yet within the inevitable limits of time, this documentary shows, they did a reasonable, balanced news report of the convention...
...News Story never directly responds to that anonymous delegate's injunction merely to cover, not create, news. There is no need to do so. The program simply and quietly accepts the fact that such neat divisions of function are no longer feasible. Hearteningly, it also implies that TV newsmen are acutely aware of the dangers this new situation presents and, even in the most heated moments, do their best to guard against them. Anatomy is neither self-critical nor self-congratulatory. It is, rather, what any good news story ought to be-a cool, objective, craftsman-like report...