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...concerning student expression. While the school must tolerate student expression, it is not required to promote it. The media's abhorrence of the Fairness Doctrine stems from a similarly negative reading of the First Amendment: just as the state has no right to prevent the expression of views on televison, it should have no right to require their expression. But in this instance, suddenly the enemies of a positive interpretation of the First Amendment demand that news deemed unfit by the owner of a paper (the school board) be forced into publication by the courts in the name...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: Freedom of the Press: For Whom? | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

...this age of televison--where style dominates substance, where winsomeness covers for winlessness--a coach must be prepared to perform a song and dance. Getting the win is as easy as baking a cake. Describing it is as hard as eating it with your hands tied behind your back...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: The Post-Game Speech | 12/15/1987 | See Source »

Which brings us to the case of Bernard Kalb. The lesser known of the two televison correspondent brothers, Bernard has suddenly found himself a cause celebre among political journalists across the country. Kalb resigned a week ago after it was learned that the Reagan Administration had intentionally planted false stories about increased tensions with Libya to scare Col. Muammar Khadafy...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: An Unimpressive Showing | 10/18/1986 | See Source »

Later Sunday, Holmer told Swedish televison the bullets were 357-caliber Magnum projectiles, and that police believed they must have been fired from an American-made Smith & Wesson revolver, a powerful handgun...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Killer Surveilled Palme Before Shooting | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...Quickly slipping out of the hands of the British Foreign Office, Kimberly goes on to search for the document. Enter Admiral Scaithe, played by Laurence Oliver, Kimberly's successor in British intelligence and the man assigned to track down the supposed defector. Having watched Kimberly's supposed funeral on televison, Scaithe does not immediately suspect that his former colleague and friend is back in town but when fingerprints from the Forcign Office reveal that the two men are the same, the affair takes on a heightened sense of emergency Scalthe now recalls the legendary lost documents and correctly deduces that...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: A Dull Puzzle | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

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