Word: printings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JUDGING BY THE PANIC surfacing in newspapers and magazines across the country, the press and the public face the gravest threat ever to the right to print and the right to know. Part of this panic is based on illusion: part is grounded on dangerous truth...
Newspapers face a threat not to their right to print, but to their right to get facts otherwise hidden from the public. If newsmen must step before grand juries, and newsmen's sources know that these journalists can be compelled to divulge their sources' identities, those sources will no longer be available. To argue that the names of reporters' informants are needed for the pursuit of justice obscures the facts: unless confidential sources believe their anonymity is guaranteed, the information they provide will not be available to any reporter, much less to the courts or to the public...
...decided not to print the whole story, we would have engaged in a subtle and dangerous form of self-censorship and only allowed the rumors to continue. Instead, we decided not to withhold information from our readers and left no more room for rumors...
...nicotine and tars, they can be just as dangerous, the Government agencies contend. Therefore the FTC recommended last week that little cigars be treated like cigarettes under the law. If Congress agrees, television and radio advertising for the little cigars would be banned, and manufacturers would have to print a health-hazard warning on each package...
...among other things, that the Parliament provide for a question period, so that Common Market Commissioners might be grilled, and set up a committee to seek advice from national parliaments, universities and other sources on how to reform itself. The standing committees, he suggested, should stop scrutinizing legislative fine print and assay instead the long-term policies of the Commission and Council of Ministers. Professing himself "astonished at the latent powers" already available. Kirk proposed that Parliament use its limited authority to question the EEC budget and set up a permanent commission to examine the accounts of all Common Market...