Word: printings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Legal attacks on rights previously taken for granted continue. The Supreme Court last week turned back one of the most serious of these?a suit to compel Florida newspapers to give equal space to political candidates who have been criticized in print. By a vote of 9 to 0, the court ruled the Florida statute unconstitutional because of "its intrusion into the function of editors." Decisions as to what is or is not published, the court said, cannot be dictated by Government. But other legal problems persist. This spring a committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors warned that...
...newsmen would prefer to identify their sources in print rather than mask them. It is often all too easy for sources to talk without having to take full responsibility for what they say. In many cases, however, attribution is impossible because people who possess highly sensitive information cannot be expected to sacrifice their careers in order to divulge it. A Capitol Hill staffer or an FBI official, for instance, may have evidence of serious abuses that should be aired. If he cannot get a hearing within...
Should the press have refused to print these leaks and waited for the Judiciary Committee's own report? Few editors would think so. The President put the original transcripts out as part of his defense, along with other statements and documents at various times. He was appealing to public opinion, which is his right. It is the press's right?and obligation?to explore the truth of his appeals...
There was no such hesitancy after the McCord milestone. Now more and more print and TV reporters fastened on the story, and the intensely competitive character of U.S. journalism came to the surface. Exclusives received wide replay. On April 30 Nixon, after stating that he had fresh information about the scandal and announcing the departure of Dean, Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and Richard Kleindienst, saw a few reporters in the White House press room. "We have had our differences in the past," he told them, "and I hope you give me hell every time you think I'm wrong. I hope...
...recipients of the phone-tap transcripts that Baldwin had delivered to the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. The names were picked up by other publications, but it turned out that the Post reporters had grabbed some raw, garbled FBI data. "The decision to rush into print was a mistake," Woodward and Bernstein wrote later...