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William L. Knecht Oakland, Calif...
Often, news executives who might otherwise be restrained rush the news into print to avoid being scooped. The Oakland Tribune, however, chose to run that risk when it learned that Mass Murderer Juan Corona had wanted to enter a guilty plea at his long and costly ($5 million) retrial, but was dissuaded by his attorneys. Editor Maynard kept the story secret until the trial was complete. He explained: "There was no doubt in my mind that if we had printed the story, it would have caused a mistrial, which could have forced yet another trial and the expenditure of still...
...emphasis on conflict tarnished the reputation of the entire profession. Says Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee: "Television has changed the public's vision of the reporter into someone who is petty and disagreeable, who has taken cynicism an unnecessary extra step." Robert Maynard, editor of the Oakland Tribune, agrees: "When people see a TV person shoving a mike in front of a grieving relative, all of us in the press appear to be boorish and ghoulish." TV executives reply that print can get away with more aggressive behavior because it is gray and abstract rather than immediate...
Fred Korematsu was a name that had lived in constitutional infamy. The Oakland-born steel welder refused to obey a 1942 military order banning all people of Japanese ancestry from San Leandro, Calif. As a result, he was called a "Jap spy" in a newspaper headline, sentenced to five years' probation and removed to a detention camp. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld his conviction and the evacuation order, thereby enshrining his name as a legal landmark. Later, when many began to question the internment of 100,000 Japanese-American citizens, Korematsu vs. United States was known to jurists...
...Korematsu, 63, he is now an Oakland draftsman and is "very pleased and satisfied with the ruling. I don't have a criminal record any more." Why had he not sought a pardon to erase that record? "If anyone should do any pardoning," he said quietly, "I should be the one pardoning the Government for what they did to the Japanese-American people...