6 mei 1978 was een zaterdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♉. Het was de 125e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was Jimmy Carter.
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Date: 06 May 1978
ITU Local 6 pres Bertram Powers repts dispute between NY Times, NY News and NY Post and printers' union seems likely to go to arbitration; NYC Publishers Assn exec dir H J Kracke says assn seeks to change some econ provisions of contract (S)
Date: 07 May 1978
By RICHARD ZOGLIN
Richard ZOGLIN
Richard Zoglin article on 'confrontation journalism,' involving use of element of surprise during TV int in order to elicit information that more traditional reptg has been unable to unearth; question of journalistic ethics noted; cases detailed (L)
Date: 07 May 1978
Testimony before Sen Intelligence Com shows that US journalists and news execs do not agree on need for law to curb CIA and other agencies in contact with media; legis opposed by AP pres Keith Fuller; backed by Milwaukee Journal ed Richard Leonard; CBS News correspondent Mike Wallace holds legis would not pose threat to press freedom in US; Washington Post ed Philip Geyelin opposes barring all links between agencies and media (S)
Date: 07 May 1978
By ARNOLD H. LUBASCH
Arnold LUBASCH
US Appeals Ct for 2d Circuit (NYC) endorses strict standards for jury deliberations in ruling that stresses defendant's right to verdict based solely on evidence presented in open ct; criticizes NYS appellate cts for failing to scrutinize case of burglary suspect William Bulger, who had complained that he had been convicted by jury that had considered information from newspaper article; rules that state must grant Bulger new trial within 60 days or release him (M)
Date: 07 May 1978
SOLOMON SIMONSONEDWARD B. FUREY JR.EMERSON R. MARKSEDWARD B. BLACK, M.D.LARRY A. JACKSONOTIS BIGELOWPETER M. GUTMANNDAVID I. CAPLAN
Solomon SIMONSONEDWARD
Prof Peter M Gutmann lr questions justification for air mail rates, which he views as high (S)
Date: 07 May 1978
By FLOYD ABRAMS
Floyd ABRAMS
Floyd Abrams article discusses First Amendment issues of press freedom; notes Sup Ct ruling in April on issue of constitutionality of Mass statute which made it crime for banks to spend money to influence vote on referendums; law forbade such cos to mount publicity campaign for or against laws unless laws materially affected their business; 2 banks and 3 cos wished to spend money to publicize their views that Mass Const should be amended to permit graduated income tax; Sup Ct decided law was not const; article holds issue is likely to be more significant than even result in Mass case: whether fact that 1st Amendment bars abridgements not only of 'freedom of speech' but 'of the press means that press is entitled to any 1st Amendment rights beyond those rights of free speech guaranteed to all citizens; differing opinions of Chief Justice Warren E Burger and Assoc Jusitce Potter Stewart noted; illus (M)
Date: 07 May 1978
ed on Sup Ct decision in 1st Natl Bank of Boston v Bellotti case; holds that decision may have endowed corps with more of civil rights than Const reserved for individuals; holds that to keep augmenting immutable rights of legally corporate body is to ignore wise warning of minority in this case that 'the state need not permit its own creation to consume it'
Date: 07 May 1978
'78 Mike Berger Award goes to Carey Winfrey (NY Times) and Ricki Fulman (Daily News); Columbia Univ Graduate Journalism School dean Elie Abel makes announcement (S)
Date: 07 May 1978
By JOSEPH F. SULLIVAN
Joseph SULLIVAN
analysis of Jeffrey Bell's challenge to Clifford P Case in Repub primary; says Bell is basing most of hopes on issue of income growth,' or cutting income taxes; notes Bell has been endorsed by former Treas Sec William E Simon and Case has rejected as 'unworkable' a tax cut proposal in bill co-sponsored by Repr Jack Kemp (M)