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...June executives of the Procter & Gamble Co. in Cincinnati complained to police that company information was being illegally leaked to a reporter. To identify the source of the leak, Cincinnati Bell, acting in response to a grand jury subpoena, searched the phone records of every one of its 655,000 customers in the 513 and 606 area codes. P&G executives later conceded that the investigation was an error in judgment...
Capitalism has hit home in Czechoslovakia. In fact, it has hit the President's house. VACLAV HAVEL's Prague neighbors were startled to see an end wall of his apartment house blossom overnight into a colorful mosaic of Procter & Gamble billboards. Havel, who hopes to use the billboard fees to restore the building's crumbling facade, has shrewdly insisted on veto power over the content of the ads. P&G happily obliged with a politically correct mix of environmental messages that stress the company's commitment to cleanliness. Got any wall space in Kennebunkport, President Bush...
Five months later, Dilenschneider, 47, was stripped of his day-to-day duties at Hill & Knowlton, whose list of blue-chip clients ranges from Pepsi to Procter & Gamble. Last week he suddenly resigned as chief executive, still denying reports that he had been shoved out. For Dilenschneider, it was a . heartbreaking fall, 24 years after he began to climb the company ladder. The man seemed to have a tragic flaw: the more powerful he became, the more he believed in his own greatness...
Maybe it wasn't such a good idea after all. Procter & Gamble brass thought they had a right, based on an obscure Ohio law, to use local authorities in their hunt for corporate leaks. What they didn't foresee was that the company would come out looking so bad. After two insider-sourced stories saying P&G's food division was troubled appeared in the Wall Street Journal last June, P&G complained to Cincinnati police, who examined hundreds of thousands of local phone records to see who called the home and office of Alecia Swasy, who wrote the articles...
...public doesn't know about.' " That is the deal every reporter makes. The real danger in the rush to subpoena reporters is not that news organizations will face expense or inconvenience but that stories that used to be hard to get will become -- as Procter & Gamble so plainly hoped -- well nigh impossible...