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...when Wyszynski refused to denounce a bishop accused of political offenses, he was himself arrested in September 1953. In a characteristic gesture, he is said to have delayed the proceedings while he bandaged the hand of a secret police officer who had been bitten by the Primate's watchdog...
...Talloires meeting, sponsored by the World Press Freedom Committee, an international watchdog group, was a direct response to UNESCO's Belgrade conference last October. There UNESCO'S 152 member states (now 155) adopted the MacBride Report. That document, which evolved from a three-year global communications study by a panel of experts under former Irish Foreign Minister Sean MacBride, sought to redress Soviet bloc and Third World complaints of "cultural aggression" on the part of the Western-dominated press by empowering UNESCO to "balance" the international flow of in formation. Among the MacBride proposals: standards for news content...
...press argues that it needs untrammeled freedom to do its job, and that its watchdog reporting has often served the public well. But a public that has grown cynical about all institutions wants no element of society exempt from criticism or, as the Post did when Washington officials questioned whether "Jimmy" existed, complacently defending what cannot be defended. The press, builder and destroyer of the reputations of others, has its own reputation to look after...
...Media Institute, a conservative Washington watchdog of the press and television, believes that the portrayal of corporate leaders on the tube shows television's antibusiness bias. The group, which studied 200 prime-time episodes on all three major networks, this week publishes its findings in a report titled Crooks, Conmen and Clowns. It reveals that two of three businessmen are shown as foolish, greedy or criminal, and that almost half of all work activities performed by businessmen involve illegal acts. For example, in Barnaby Jones, a coffee importer helps a violent revolutionary group. In Vega$, a wealthy hotel owner...
...method goes back to 1977, when the Securities and Exchange Commission began pressing for annual reports that give investors more information about the effects of inflation on a firm's finances. Inflation accounting was finally mandated in 1979 by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, the profession's watchdog. This year the board required inflation-adjusted figures for only the 1,280 largest corporations, those with assets of more than $1 billlion...