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...pressure from Washington. The emerging tactic of the Nixon Administration against the free flow of information is not one of the attacking journalists in the courts, but a policy of wooing the businessmen who head media corporations with promises of economic security. This strategy is most evident in the Whitehead bill for Federally-licensed television stations, where local channels are offered longer five-year licenses in exchange for an end to "ideological plugola." The press is not immune from such Federal pressure. Many hard-pressed dialies would like to see the passage of the so-called Newspaper Preservation Act. Given...
...February, the President has decided to carpet-bomb the Federal budget, demolishing nearly every major social program inaugurated since the Eisenhower administration. Simultaneously, the war on the First Amendment continues, with newspaper reporters the first major casualties, but more on the way if Clay T. Whitehead, Director of the White House Office on Telecommunications Policy, makes good his rhetorical attack on "ideological plugola" in the network news. If Whitehead has his way, the airwaves will soon hum with Richard Nixon Thought...
...must say that your article "Restrained 'Freedom' " [Jan. 1] clearly shows another attempt of the Nixon Administration to manipulate the attitudes of the press. Clay T. Whitehead. as director of the Office of Telecommunications Policy, outlined the ultimate extinction of the fourth estate. The quarry, of course, is the national networks, who have been a target of criticism since the day President Nixon was inaugurated. Why doesn't the President let the Federal Communications Commission act as it was intended to. as an independent agency of the Government, assigned to regulate radio and television in this country...
...also a devious, and sometimes petty one. He retaliated against the long-critical Washington Post by granting an exclusive interview to its rival, the Star-News, and the Post's society reporter has been banned from covering White House social functions. Nixon's telecommunications director, Clay Whitehead, has attacked the "elitist gossip" in network news and proposed that local stations be held accountable at license-renewal time for any unbalanced news programming. Suddenly, three groups of Republican businessmen, some with close ties to the Administration, have challenged the licenses of two Washington Post-owned TV stations in Florida...
...some small comfort to remember that Whitehead's proposal is not an executive order, but a piece of legislation. In Congress, Senator John O. Pastore is developing coolness toward Whitehead and Senator Sam Ervin's strenuous opposition to any infringement of press liberty should dampen whatever sparks of enthusiasm which may exist for Whitehead's plan. For the networks, solicitous of their fragile relationships with their affiliates, the threat of regulation may itself be sufficient impetus to change. Whether it succeeds or not, Nixon's proposal blows a chill wind across freedom of the press...