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...Equal Employment Opportunity Commission chairman for the Atlantic. In recent TV appearances Williams suggested that Hill's charges against Thomas, who is now a friend, were baseless. Shortly after he wrote his op-ed-page piece, Williams was told by Post assistant managing editor Tom Wilkinson of the newsroom-harassment charges, which Williams claims involved only a few innocent "jokes." In what the Post admits was an administrative lapse, Meg Greenfield, who edits the op-ed page, was not informed by either Wilkinson or executive editor Leonard Downie of Williams' potential conflict. That his piece ran with no mention...
James F. Hoge did some despicable things as publisher of the strike-ridden work for compromise. He stationed guards in the newsroom. It's said that he even brought in some guard dogs to keep Daily News employees away from the printing presses. Pretty fascist for a newspaper publisher...
What you see often depends on where you sit. If it is in a newsroom, you probably believe what democracy needs most is to protect the free flow of information. If it is on a judicial bench or in a prosecutor's office, you probably focus on respect for the rule of law. In truth, free press and fair trial are both important values. But they can collide, and increasingly journalists lose. News organizations find themselves ever more under court order to reveal confidential sources and sometimes to hand over notes en bloc -- often to a lawyer on a fishing...
Many journalists hoped the case would simply go away; the prospect of juries setting limits on the work practices of reporters was a newsroom nightmare. But last week the Supreme Court decided otherwise. It unanimously overturned the decision of a federal court and ruled that the discomforting case of journalist Janet Malcolm, accused of libeling her subject by fabricating his quotes, should go to trial. Nevertheless, the reaction from most reporters, though hardly unanimous, tended toward a collective sigh of relief that the decision showed a subtle sensitivity to their craft...
Amid the Crimson newsroom's frenzied, Thursday night, pre-scoop atmosphere, a reporter telephoned the Wayland home of Barbara Ebert, a particularly enigmatic employee of the governing boards who is known to frequent its super-secret 1000 Mass. Ave. satellite office. A man who identified himself as Ebert's husband said she would be home soon but that the couple would be going out to dinner to celebrate her birthday. When the reporter called back later that night asking for Ebert, the story had changed...