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...office. Last week the high court ruled 6 to 3 that newsmen must answer questions about what they were thinking when they prepared reports that resulted in libel suits. "The courts can take your notes, the Government can take your telephone records, and the police can march into the newsroom," said Jack Landau of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. "Now libel lawyers can go into your brain. I'd like to know what's left." Landau's fears were widely shared by journalists. But this time, their outcries may be unwarranted...
...contended that only lies would be "chilled." Though they dissented, both Justice William Brennan and Justice Thurgood Marshall said they did not understand how a journalist could be prevented from thinking. Their concern was that journalists would be reluctant to discuss stories openly and frankly among themselves in the newsroom. Brennan would allow questions about these conversations only if the plaintiff could first show that he had been harmed by a false story; Marshall would ban them altogether...
...frowns on those familiar television faces? In Howard K. Smith's case, it's because the venerable newscaster is piqued that ABC News under Roone Arledge seems less and less interested in the learned commentary that Smith delivers. As a result, he tacked a bull to the newsroom bulletin board announcing an abrupt resignation from "a job without a real function...
...save the Star, but he did not want to impose them arbitrarily and risk alienating the wary staff. So he borrowed from a successful participatory management scheme introduced in 1972 at a car-mirror plant in Bolivar, Tenn. Isaacs set up eight committees (there are now eleven) composed of newsroom volunteers and usually a management representative. The committees suggested ways to improve the Star's design, writing, editorials, special sections and allocations of manpower, space and money. A strategy committee considered the paper's overall position in the market. Says Reporter Frank Allen, 32, chairman of the strategy...
When the Stanford University Daily went to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1977 to challenge a surprise police raid of its newsroom, the Carter Administration supported the local police. A Justice Department brief argued that the First Amendment did not protect a newspaper from unannounced searches, even if the paper's reporters were not suspected of any wrongdoing. By a 5-to-3 vote, the high court agreed in a decision that outraged editors and publishers...