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...should be a good match," Co-Captain Maia Forman said. "I think our hitters are stronger and quicker...
...this prediction proves correct, nobody will be quicker to sound the alarm than Congress. Both Houses passed legislation earlier this year to "codify" the fairness doctrine, but President Reagan vetoed it as "antagonistic to the freedom of expression." Congressional backers of the doctrine are preparing to try again, and one of them, Democratic Senator Ernest F. Hollings of South Carolina, denounced last week's FCC action as "wrongheaded, misguided and illogical." They face an uphill battle, though, against both the Administration and the press. As the Washington Post pointedly editorialized, "The FCC has done the right thing, and Congress should...
...potentially quicker and better way to achieve all that is arbitration, now being tested in a Libel Dispute Resolution Program at the University of Iowa, run by three professors, including Gilbert Cranberg, a former editorial- page editor of the Des Moines Register. In some 30 cases to be handled over the next two years, both sides must waive the right to file suit. In exchange there are supervised negotiating sessions, a possible factual hearing on whether a statement was false and damaging -- without considering whether the error met the legal "malice" standard -- and ultimately arbitration. Remedies imposed against a media...
Arbitration is quicker and cheaper than a trial or settlement out of court. * It is structured to focus on questions of fact and, potentially, fairness, rather than legal subtleties. Thus it offers all parties, including the public, a chance for meaningful judgment about the validity of important disputed news coverage. Still, some worry. Without litigation as an effective means of redress, warns Attorney Goodale, "pressure would build in the social system and backfire against the press...
...appreciative SRO crowd. Later this year PBS will air a tribute to him staged at the Wolf Trap music festival and featuring Vocalist Carmen McRae and Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. The jazz legend still wails on his trademark bent-up horn, because, he says, "you hear the sound quicker. I never blow straight at anybody unless it's an angel up in the heavens...