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...develop it did. Two newsmen turned up the fact that Carswell had made a white-supremacist speech 22 years ago; Carswell recanted. Then it became known that he had been an incorporator of a Tallahassee golf club that went from public to private status in an apparent attempt to avoid desegregation; before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Carswell obfuscated the issue, bringing his candor into question. Critics pointed out that his decisions had frequently been reversed on appeal; there was little to be said in rebuttal. Some of the nation's leading legal scholars and practicing lawyers questioned his judicial skills...
...court that there is "a compelling and overriding national interest which cannot alternatively be served." Judge Zirpoli acknowledged that the issues before him have not yet been fully explored and decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. But for now, at least, the Caldwell case provides some relief for newsmen served with subpoenas...
...government's recent penchant for probing into newsmen's confidential information last week produced a court showdown in San Francisco. Reporter Earl Caldwell and his employer, the New York Times, had challenged two subpoenas ordering him to testify before a federal grand jury investigating Black Panthers. The result was a clear victory for Caldwell and other newsmen determined to maintain the trust of their sources...
...Black newsmen often get black stories that a white reporter simply cannot get. For instance, some black militant groups refuse to talk to whites. And it is doubtful if any white reporter could have got the chilling interview obtained by former Los Angeles Times man Ray Rogers in Detroit in 1967 from a sniper who offered to take him up on a rooftop and "show him." But black newsmen, too, do not always have easy access to black stories...
...demonstrations, and not enough effort to explain the causes of dissatisfaction. As a result, when a black reporter for a white-controlled news organization goes into a black community, hostility toward his employer sometimes rubs off on him. He may be regarded, in the phrase of some black newsmen, as a "Ghetto Sniffer," an Uncle Tom who has sold out to the "honky" press...