重播 1981年6月20日星期六

FIGURE IN ATLANTA INQUIRY ASKS CURB ON NEWS MEDIA

Date: 20 June 1981

By Wendell Rawls Jr., Special To the New York Times

Wendell Rawls

A lawyer for a 23-year-old man questioned by the authorities in the series of 28 murders here pleaded with a Federal judge today to restrain the news media from publishing or broadcasting virtually anything about her client. The lawyer, Mary Welcome, said there had been ''massive and extensive and unwarranted publicity'' surrounding Wayne B. Williams since he was held in the Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters here for 12 hours June 3 and 4. She said that ''constitutional violations of his rights to a fair trial and his rights to privacy'' had been inflicted by television, radio and newspaper reports. As a remedy, the lawyer, a former city solicitor, asked that the news media be barred from ''disseminating information about this case linking or allegedly linking'' Mr. Williams to the murders unless the information ''originates from an official statement.'' She also asked that reporters be prohibited from mentioning her client's ''background or his prior record''; from expressing an ''opinion concerning his guilt, innocence or character''; from predicting an outcome of a trial; from reporting the findings of examinations or tests performed on evidence or from reporting that Mr. Williams failed or refused to submit to any tests. And she asked that the news media not be allowed to publish Mr. Williams's picture, his name, his address or any other means of identification.

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News Group Corrects Omission In Statement on Press Freedom

Date: 20 June 1981

A May 17 statement on press freedom by leaders of news organizations meeting in Talloires, France, was made public with a sentence inadvertently dropped, according to a spokesman for the World Press Freedom Committee, one of the co-sponsors of the conference. The text of the statement was published in the May 18 editions of The New York Times.

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THE PITFALLS OF MEDIA CRITICISM

Date: 21 June 1981

By Jonathan Friendly

Jonathan Friendly

Late last month, ''Inside Story,'' public television's new program about journalism, was complimenting Bob Pisor, who analyzes newspaper performance for a Detroit television station, WDIV. ''Inside Story'' used as an example of Mr. Pisor's good work a film clip in which he said The Detroit News and The Detroit Free Press had underreported the causes of the city's financial problems. Editors of the two papers say ''Inside Story'' had asked them what they thought of Mr. Pisor's work in general - they praised it - but not what they thought about the specific criticism of their reporting on city finances. With that, they mostly disagreed. Getting the other side of the story is a basic tenet of journalism, but the managing editor of ''Inside Story'' said he did not seek it in this case because the point of using the Detroit item was to praise a local television station simply for having a media critic, good, bad or indifferent.

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South Africans Arrest Black Student Leader And Black Journalist

Date: 21 June 1981

Reuters

Zwelakhe Sisulu, a ''banned'' black journalist, was arrested at his home early today in a continuing crackdown on opponents of the Government. No reason was given.

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45 YEARS IN BROADCASTING

Date: 20 June 1981

Donald L. Kearney, who was in the broadcasting field for 45 years and a former chairman of the Television Bureau of Advertising, collapsed and died Thursday on Fire Island, N.Y. He had been under treatment for a heart problem. He was 63 years old and a resident of Manhattan.

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Koch and Britain Continue Their War of Words

Date: 20 June 1981

By Albin Krebs and Robert Mcg. Thomas Jr

Albin Krebs

Mayor Koch lobbed another volley across the Atlantic yesterday at the British Government and press. The British press has been castigating the Mayor for having quoted his conversation in New York City Wednesday with Prince Charles about Northern Ireland.

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THE PRESS CLUB READMITS AN ANGRY YOUNG MAN, 73

Date: 20 June 1981

By Francis X. Clines, Special To the New York Times

Francis Clines

I.F. Stone has rejoined the pack. Mr. Stone, the premier loner and dedicated maverick of American journalism, was welcomed back into the National Press Club yesterday after having been ostracized by that section of the journalistic Establishment for trying to take a black friend to lunch at the club 40 years ago. ''This town was full of such cowards,'' Mr. Stone recalled of the McCarthyite time 25 years ago when he pressed his grievance and could find only nine supporters in the club of hundreds, when he needed 25. He went over the facts of the incident not for personal retribution but to try to find a historic lesson and caution in them. ''These are not just the peccadiloes of the past; these are the crimes of the future,'' the 73-year-old reporter and leftist -wing social critic declared as an audience of more than 200 reporters and press agents sat and, it seemed at times, squirmed.

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Realty News; Third Avenue

Date: 21 June 1981

Two leases have been signed in the Chrysler East Building at 666 Third Avenue at 42d Street. The Permanent Mission of the Republic of Indonesia to the United Nations has leased the entire 12th floor, which contains about 18,000 square feet of office space for 10 years at an aggregate rent of $6.5 million.

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Follow-Up on the News; Doomed Sparrows

Date: 21 June 1981

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

The dusky sparrows of Florida were down to six known survivors last January - all males. Five were in the Sante Fe Community College Teaching Zoo in Gainesville, each living on what amounted to a $9,200 Federal pension.

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Follow-Up on the News; Pledge to Bikinians

Date: 21 June 1981

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

When American nuclear testing in 1946 made Bikini atoll in the Pacific unhabitable for 100 years, the Government promised the 167 ousted Bikinians equitable resettlement one day near their ancestral island. The natives were placed temporarily on Kili, an isolated island 400 miles to the south, and they suffered periodic food shortages.

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