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This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Judicial Ethics and the National News Council at UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Formation of the National News Council by an authorized administrator of UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. PAGE 4 Sf~~f-Chm,eL r~ ;-'1 London of a society in which all RESIDENT N i x on 's the decent and able people P masterful speech ac ISecretsl and the are in jail, while all the cepting responsibility for scum are their jailers or not knowing anything info rmers. In Solzhenit about the Watergate affair By John Crosby syn's view, Soviet Russia was not published in Great is the opposite of a merit Britain. At least not that It was the Washington print -allegations of down viet diplomat in a moment ocracy; merit lands you in day. No papers on May Post which persisted in right lying ()n the parts of of human pity (a fatal jail or, like Solzhenitsyn -Day. . the face of public and offi British officeholders. The flaw in a Soviet official) himself, in disgrace. Con cial apathy in digging into penalties are too great and tries to warn a doctor of a versely, the bigger the It was a low journalistic the Watergate mess. Two eve n Prime Ministers trap being set fo e him by criminal, the higher the blow against the President young Post reporters, Carl don't hesitate to bring li the KGB (Soviet secret pu o ~fic e he occupies. who has suffered much at Bernstein and Bob Wood bel suits. And OVer here, lice). the hands of journalists. ward, managed to break nobody ever loses a libel Ironic Twist Either they don't publish down aU the formidable suit against a newspaper. He telephones anony There is one other ex what he wants very badly barriers erected by the f mously from a call bo x - ceedingly ironic twist to to be published or they do J ustice Department and In fact, jOlU'nalistic en- -but the doctor 's phone is bugged. (One gets the idea Watergate. Ben Bradlee is publish all the things he the White House and to the executive editor of the very much wishes they bring out the truth in the \ from reading Solzhenitsyn wouldn't. It's very dis that everyone's phone is Washington Post who has face of flat official denials , } unleashed it in the kind of couraging. including the President's. bugged in Russia and the crusading journalism that sheer waste of time by all It was a great speech. I doubt that it could hap threatens to edge out The Mr. Nixon was "ap those KGB people listen pen here. Any British re ing in on other people's New York Times as Amer palled." He thus - follows ica's mO$t respected news porters who tried to pen~ is Agnew who earlier in the phone conversations trate Whitehall's fac3de mind-boggling. ) paper. week was also "appalled." could land in jail for vio This is a British word, ac Bradlee w 0 u.l d never lating the Official Secre1:s terprise is severely Top Soviet scientists - tually. all in prison, naturally - have been a journalist at Act. frowned on when you get all but for another Repub The Post to looking into why or are set to perfecting a sys No British reporter tem that can distinguish lican politico. the late Sen. Until v e l' y recently what officeholders are up Joe McCarthy. Bradlee could conceivably _make to here. - bet wee n voice-prints American politicians were the kind of allegations (something Western scien was on.e of the State DB always "shocked" when against any high British The 'First Circle' tists -found out long ago). par t men t 's brightest they found some other pol official t hat Woodward Oh, the KGB catches the young Foreign Service of itician's hand in the till. and Bernstein were mak It might seem a long poor diplomat and jails ficers w hen McCarthy Then our Presidents st::lrt ing or he'd be up to his jump from Watergate to him in perpetuity. started hlU'ling his smears ed traveling abroad where neck in libel suits. Alexander Solzhenitsyn's at the State Department. they picked up all these "First Circle," but it isn't. But out of this small Bradlee quit diplomacy in un-American linguistic In fact, British newspa The "First Circle" opens framework of plot, Sol dis ~ u st and took up jOl,5/: habits. pers would hesitate to with a bugging. A high So- zhenitsyn paints a picture nalism. , ;; I"_._ _~_~ _ ~._I ___ ~_ .,,__ ~..:~~,~" __---":" =-- ~ .~.a-...o...... AMERICA ;1 Reporting . Wit,h the naming of its 16 mem- NEW YORK, N. Y. " on the Media bers, the National News Council W.93,000 has entered the final . stages of formation. Media analysts and critics, most notably MAY 26 1973
I the Hutchins Commission on Freedom of the Press ---~.----- twenty-five years ago, have long urged the creation of an ' independent review board to process complaints against the press. Last December, the Twentieth Cen tury Fund announced a grant permitting athree:yE"aT ' experilnent. Critics of the plan, like Arthur O. Sulzberger of 1 the New York Times, observe that even a voluntary : review board could create an "atmosphere of regula "\ '\ tion in which government'intervention might gain public I acceptance." Others argue that an independent board , could be as intimidating as the government, if in , touchy times, such as those just past, the industry , would decide to protect itself by discouraging individual , members from dealing with sens.itive matters in a man , ner that could eventually lead to official confrontation. " As might be expected; the American Society of News- paper Editors expressed opposition to the board by a ratio of four to one, and the New York Times and Time stated that they would not participate. These expressions of concern on the part of jour- , nalists are not easily dismissed. Yet the fact remains that the public does have remarkably limited access to the national media. Short of a libel suit, an ag- grieved party can do little to protect himself. In re sponseto critics of the National News Council, its • I newly appointed chairman, Robert J. Traynor, retired Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court, in the May-June issue of The Center Magazine, said : "I can not believe that a council, completely detached from government and without any power to impose any sanctions whatever other than publicity, can in any way be a threat to press freedom or encourage an ' atmosphere of regulation." At the sanie time, an im partial council could restore credibility for the media, which, according to a recent Harris poll, rank only above advertising and labor unions in public confidence. England has had a council for twenty years and Canada and the state of Minnesota for some months. All seem to be enjoying a growing acceptance by the news industries. As it is currently envisioned, the Na tional News Council will cost the press little and couls! i I profit the press handsomely. ~~ _ _ ~-.- , " ~'~"'J. 6 .s w -'l"UDI:tNCEfestimates r resulting from a cial survey conducted in New York and Los ~Angeles indicate-a no ticeable, but not drastic, drop-off of commerical -TV . viewers during the first two days of the Watergate h ear i n g s. The estimated average, level of 13 million viewers per average daytime minute dropped to 9.5 million on the three commer cial nets. On the other hand, the Public Broadcast ing Service coverage which was delayed until 8 p.m . .doubled its average audience the first night and tri . pled it the second night. The estimated cost to PBS: $12,000 a night. The famed Nixon-Agnew charge of a leftist slant by TV news was debunked this week by a sur vey of news balance which has been conducted for --to . the past four years by . alism rofessors Leslie . Moeller of the U i e t e mversity of innesota and W· . mversl of rgia. esults: ""'- Twenty-seven per cent of the material on neW's- :cast& could be considered pleasing to a Nixon sup port1!r, 30 per cent displeasing and 42 per cent neu tral. In the field of news comment, 29 per cent was JI pleasing, 21 per cent displeasing, and 50 per cent \ neutral. \ * * \1-
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: : . ..'... " ., . /) .. : -:' ", ~ , .. . .. '- · ~P ·· Fights Back'" ..,: We . are privileged to receive the ~tay Sssue :of First Monday, publication of the Republican N ationalCommittee.·As 'might be . expected,:it contains tM official Repub- I : ~can 'answer to the Watergate uproar . . , .' Not : that if makes one single reference U> Watergate. No indeed; What it does is attack ' the credibility of the news media. ; ··· In the •., proce ss the magazU;Ei endor'ses lh e Twentieth: Cent lJ-ry· Fund's ' propo ~~d National ' News Council to mOniU:lrthe per fo.rznailce ' of .. news setvices,:radio and tele 'Vision : " networks '~ and nationally distributed newspapers. . . · In ·. fact, "says : First Moriday,"Let ;;',a thousand ·press councils. bloom ... . With friends liRe First Monday , ~ the . news'council proposal's opponents'will soon t' have the field all to themselves. I - I
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'. ' MAY 17 1973 ~ -John P. Roche A Good· Case for a Report I Recently a Twentieth Century Fund Task Force proposed Moreover, what can a public figure do if he has been "that an indepenaent -and private- national news council be tagged on say the third bounce by hearsay? A number of established to examine, and to report on complaints concern· figures , have been fingered on roughly this basis: McCord . ing the accuracy and fairness of news reporting in the United says Liddy · said Dean said I planned the whole affair over States." ' . lunch. It may be true-I am not arguing the merits-but The more I walch the torrent of hearsay and speculation the beh·avior of the press has to be understood against an about the Watergate Affair, the better I like this idea. As interesting legal background: as far as anyone in politics , a civil libertarian, and a scholarly specialist on civil rights or public life is concerned, there is no such thing as the in America, I have been simply appalled. Of course I want. law of libel. In a series of decisions, the Supreme Court to get to the bottom of the Watergate business, but indictment has eviscerated the traditional protection against libel. by grand jury and tlial by jury is the technique for that-not . trial by allegations in the press. As usual, \ it all began with a bad case: The state of Having been abroad for a couple of weeks, it came as Alabama went after the New York Times for rUIDling an a shock tome to climb on the plane in Paris, open the advertisement that allegedly libeled some public officials. This latest issues of Time and Newsweek and discover that (with was patently a bum rap: sheer harassment in defense of admittedly superb investigative ' reporting) a whole cast of white supremacy. But the Alabama courts found the Times characters has been indicted, given a fair trial, and convicted. guilty and the Supreme Court had the unenviable job of From the way the stories were written one might suppose getting the paper off the ,hook. that the grand jury was meeting before television cameras It did, but in the process cOnstrued the Constitution's rather than in ".secret." guarantee of freedom of speech and press as being a hunting (In fairness to the press. it should be noted· that this license. If you don't like heat, stay out of the kitchell. The . passion for hearsay tips from informed sources arose in large fact that an individual of his own free will decides to be c orn~ part from the benign neg lect of Watergate by the Dept. a public figure, eliminates most of the protections of the of Justice. Since there seemed to be no point in tipping law of libel. (Technically speaking, jf one can demonstrate off the attorney general. the next best bet was to hit page malice, he still has .a chance. . one of the papers.) . The net result of this destruction of tra'ditional protections But civil libertarians are not concerned with issues of is that anyone can, if he is so motivated, call a press con that order. They are troubled by such questions as: "With ference and tell the world that John Roche stole the Wn ite all this trial by newspaper. will it be possible fo r any ultimate House silver. Or that I was a Communist dupe, a Zionist defendants to get a fair trial?" Presumably the venue could agent, an Irish Republican Army spy. My only recourse would be changed to Alaska and the jury box populated with be to laugh it off-as President Eisenhower did when the Eskimos, but aside from such a drastic tactic now in the John Birch Society uncovered his supposed Communist COII world can 12 good persons and true be found who do 1I0t nections. have a preconceived verdict? King Features Syndicate ,....-... - lz. (!!!1irann IDrihutt~ :rHE WORLD'S GREATEST. NEWSPAPER D. 767,W3 ~UN. 1;016,275
I MAY 1 5 1973 .J
Blue-collar views Press council ignores workers
By Mike Lavell'e -black and white-and they generally hillside and started walling out. Found get a very bad rap from the media, THE McGOVERN reform movement seven bodies- in the' bottom. Every which is overrepresented by ultraliber where we looked we seen bodies. This is alive and still sick in the newly al types who couldn't be fair even if formed National News Council created they wanted to. The Gage Park cover- could ·have been prevented. They and fronted by th~ , .20tlt..cent l!!Y_!E!.!L ' age is a ,good example of that. A more know'd it was critical. We sit pumps In the mines. Why couldn't they drain off and seven other foundations. telling one is their nonresponse to the some of .the water? Makes you mad The council's role is to be that of Joe Yablonski murder. ombudsman in investigating complaints when you watch 23 years of your life Perhaps I've got a warped sense of go floating down the hollow. A man of inaccuracy and bias in the national values, bu:t the murder of Joe Yablon works his lifetime in the mines and it's news media such as the wire services ski means a hell of a lot more to me and the TV networks. gone in five minutes. I figure it like than Watergate . does. And so does a this: If I build a dam and it breaks and Its 15-member board consists of two dam burst at Buffalo Creek, W. Va., on kills people, they'll put me in the pen. ex-politicians, now businessmen; two Feb. 2kl, 1972, which took the lives of What makes Pittstown any better than black leaders; it feminist; a university 124 people and left more than 4,000 me? They ought to be punished. They dean; a college professor; a public tel homeless-mostly miners and their broke every law in the books." evision official; a former chief justice families. I'm not surprised that much of the of California; and six representatives The dam was owned by Pittstown news media and its corps of investiga of the media. Company, a holding company ,that tive whiz kids or our ivy-league college owns 76 coal mines and turned a profit NOT ONLY are there no members students didn't get excited about the of $44 million in 1971 and $28.5 million from labor on the council, but, to add tragedy of Buffalo Creek. L€t's face it, in 1972. According to the United Mine insult to injury, one of its members is miners in West Virginia are just not Workers Journal of March' 15, 1973, chairman of the board of a coal compa chic enough and certainly don't set off ny. Pittstown Company attributed its 1972 any vibrations among apathetic college Needless to say, his judgment on ac drop in profits to health and safety students. curate reporting of mine disasters laws, tho it had been cited many times might be a bit suspect, along with the for violation of such laws. AS FOR the sick, sick, sick film in publisher of an ultraconservative week Following an investigation of the dam dustry, their contribution as part of our lyon the council They both should burst, Gov. Arch Moore of West Vir entertainment media is a, vile, one-di have a lot of fun checking out the accu ginia, said, "Pittstown Company thru mensional idiocy called "Deliverance," racy of media reporting on strikes: its officials has s.hown flagrant dL~re which is an Appalachian "Joe" com "Hey! That miners' strike was re gard. for the safety of residents of Buf plete with the most evil stereotypes ported as a threat to public order. Does falo Creek." imaginable. that sound fair to you?" But let Robert Bowens, a Buffalo If you don't .believe me, ask Appa "Not really! They forgot to add un Creek miner, tell it: "We was on the lachian white Iberius Hacker, a com" patriotic. munity organizer in Uptown who pro "Our nation needs that coal." tested that film. Recently in a discus- "You're right. I'll get the board on . sion of . "Deliverance," some left-wing, that right away. We'll h&ve to tell the sociaJ-activist .types defended it and I feminists, one of the blacks, and those attacked it. I was calJed a racist for academic types that adding white male defending "those people." Later I was chauvinist, racist, Fascist threats to called a Trotskyite. public order is just a bit too much." You figure it out. My fear is that Bearing the brunt of much of our , those people would fit right in on the social change are the blue-collar workers I board of the National ,News Council._ I! )2..'1
--' K 4 Srmday,May13,1973 THE WASHINGTON POST
I V I P I Just ·Words Between Friends
~ By Maxine Cheshire tpyism be stomped out wherev~ it appears in our political life-above all in our newsp,M>.el'$?" ~ The words were Clare Boothe Luce's own when she Referring to- tlie President, She said "one must not ;:. spoke here recently to 1,000 of the nation's editors, (arbitrarily) assume gullt." ;- but some of the thoughts were those of USIA director Although Mrs. Luce deplored the Watergate affaJr :.: James Keogh. in her speech to the American Society of Newspaper ~ . Keogh, who was President Nixon's chief speech Editors, she reproved the press for drawing a ''fear · ~,. writer in the White House before leaving to write a some amount of blood from the President" and in 'I!! '1iighly critical book on press coverage of this adminis some cases of "joyfully licking their chops of the rich _ tration, provided Mrs. Lues with a memo on the "re- blood they have drawn." ·sponsibilities of the press in handling stories" like the She asked, "Is the pleasure of soaking the captain Watergate. worth the price of sinking the ship?" Though he is prohibited by law from engaging in If this is not to happen, she concluded: "The preas, ) anything that could be Construed as propagandizing at its responsible best, must handle this delicate and within the United States, Keogh said last week that painful question in the best interests of the nation. he does not see any conflict ·in contributing to Mrs. It must move the political dialogue to a higher and Luce's hard-hitting speech. safer ground for America." --rghe is an' old friend," he said. According to Mrs. Luce, Keogh's contribution to her Keogh is a former editor of the Luce magazi'ne, Time. remarks was "only one page long" and consisted of He is author of two books, "Thi'S Is Nixon," written in "one or two questions he asked me to raise." 1956, and "Nixon and the Press," published early in "The rhetoric," she said, "was entirely my own." 1972. . She had prepared an entirely different speeCh before Keogh said Mrs. Lues telephoned him to seek his coming to Washington, she explained, one that had advice on what questions she should raise on the taken six weeks to write. But she decided after arriving role of the press in regard to the Watergate. At her here that she must address herself to Wau.gate. She request, he followed up the conversation with a written also asked former New York Times columnist Arthur memo. Krock and a former editor of Fortune magazine, It dealt, be said, ''with the very serious problem Charles Murphy, to give her memos. rters have in distinguishing between speculation, She defended the propriety of Keogh's involvement. : ors, hearsay and fact . . . trying to avoid the "In suggesting that there is anything wrong with it," I harge of 'McCarthyism' ... and 'guilt by association.' " she said, "you are indulging in exactly the kind of ~In Mrs. Luce's speech, whi~h she and Keogh insi'st reporting that drives people up the wall." was her "own ianguage," she asked, "Must not McCar- @ 1973. The Washington Post/Chlealo Tribune-New York News Syndicate. Ino. - . ...!..to _~_ ~ _._ 125"
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MAY 13 \973 ~ Ross Cunningham: ' Council to audit
the .press has its \ . work cut out y sheer happenstance, the newly ' formed ' National Thus the· whole business of press handling or the BNews Council .has come into being at a most appropri national administration's scandals seems bound to fall un ate time-'-':"'- cbnsidering the controversy [hat is rising over der the scrutiny of the new press-watchers. the role of the press in exposing the White House-Water gate scandals_ WITHIN THE PRESS FRATERNITY, the Watergate Sponsored by the prestigious Twentieth Century Fund, expose is regarded as a croWning achievement and a reaf the purpose of the 15-member counCif is -tolllonitdr the firmation of the essential role of a free press in a free pre.ss on a nationwide basis to look into complaints about society. \' . fairness and accuracy. ' . The Nixon-White House hierarchy has been crumpled Without doubt, the council is likely to be dubbed the by public disclosures that surely would not have been "committee to watchdog the press." . made if matters had been left to Congress or federal . "Fair enough," welcomers of the cowlcil already are investigative agencies. Untouchables who may have felt saying. "The press looks dmm everybody else's throat. themselves beyond the reach of corrective action have Now the 'press will have someone looking down its throat." been exposed to accountability, . The notion of this sort of reverse-Iookino- isn't exactly However, do the results justify the means? Would the popular in our profession and most of us have been op means have been applied so extensively if it had not been posed to past efforts to establish such organizations - the 'Nixon administration in the White House, tIle long seeing them as potential hazards of censors11ip and an vel1detta between the working press and Mr. Ni xo n, Spiro infringement on the constitutionally protected freedom of Agnew's criticism of the press, and the administration's the press, You never know when one of these thinos gets policies aimed at turning around many of the so-called started where it is likely to lead. b Great Society programs?
NEVERTHELESS, IT LOOKS as though the press is ALL OF THESE ELEMENTS surelv bore on the situa ~oin,g to have to . live with this one - 1;vhich is likely to tion in one way or another - and. as Senator Proxmire (a mspJre a flurry or local press-watcher councils around the nonadmirer of Ni xon policies) , spoke out to say, some of country, the tactics smacked of the "McCarthyism" much of the Political fi gures, by and large, tend to like the idea of press deplored so lusti ly in the early 1950's, when it was p!'ess-watchdog councils because at' the lumps which politi liberals who were under attack. cIans take - many of which they consider to be biased Out of it all, it must be suggested, the press as a whole and unfair and often incomplete accounts of news~makillg as well as the Nixon administration has come out with events in which tbey are principab. . more than wounded knees. Both have suffered further in . Equally galling to most politidans has been their belief public esteem in degrees which only the professional poll- that - mainly because of the so-called "Sullivan vs. New . takers can measure. York Times" decision by the United States Suprenie Court So the National News Council seems to have its work ~everal years ago -. they have virtually' no legal recourse cut out. A great deal of linen needs to be washed. And III the face of damagll1g and untrue press coverage. It isn 't indeed it will be interesting to watch and see whether the that bad, but most of them seem to think 60. - press can take its lumps aswell as it can deliver them.
COVERAGE AND INTERPRETATION of the White House-Watergate scandals have emphasized anew the de vice of the press in quoting unidentified "sources" in bringing out hidden and obscw'e information .. . So perhaps even President Nixon himself and some or . all of the deposed princes in the White House hierarchv are s!lently cheering the Twentieth Century Fund fo~ beardlJ1g the press at this opportune time. ' TIle initial targets of the press-watchers it has been ~ . Ilnounced, will be the wholesalers of news, ~r wire serv Ices, which serve the nation and the world - the Associat ed Press, United Press International and others which include the services operattd by The New York TiJ;les and The Washington Post - the latter two being the primary tormentors of the Nixon administration, tullUIt & rut)LI.:lntn ., " NEW YORK, N. Y. W.24,000 .; May 12, 1973 v !. ( ..( t , . . ( E&P MAY 12 \973 Every Saturday Since 1884
Science Monitor and Kenneth MacDonald, I Editors split over need of the D es lIIoines R egiMe /' c\: T ·ribllne. Justice Traynor said it was essential "to be clear about what the Council is and what it is not." It is, he said, "an appro ~ f'or absolute shield law priate media to insure informed objectivi I ty" and is concerned with "the accuracy By Luther A. Huston and fairness of news, not with editorial opinion. It is not a business bureau or Although the American Society of interview by a member of the Times staff style center for critiques of budget colum Newspaper Editors has endorsed legisla with a man who figured in the \Vatergate nists or column-crankers_ Neither is it a tion that would afford r eporters absolute invcstigation. whitewash or a gloss center for t he protection against forced di sclosure to Chades Bennett of the OklnllOman media." The Council is chartered, he said, grand juries, judges or other investigato and Tim es. was not co nvinced that a "to serve the public interest in preser ving ry bodies of confidential information and federal shield law was necessary and freedom of communication a nd advance sources, the editors attending the Society's pointed out that investigative r eporters accurate and fair r eporting of the news; 197:1 convention wer e divided as to the had exposed the Watergatc scandal with to aft-inn the values of freedom of expres need for enactment of a federal shield out protection of shield legislation. A fed sion in a democratic society" a nd to "pr o mot e public under standing of t hose r oilles la~v. eral shield law, he feared, mi ght open the After a panel had discussed the ques door to some form of government r egula and the responsibility of the public as tion , President J. Edward :\Iurray called tion of the press, such as li censing of well as the media for their preservation." for a show of hands by some 500 editors newsmen a nd censor ship. Roscnlhal objet·l, on three questions, namely, those who fa Charles Bailey, of the Minll e (/p o li .~ vored an absolute bill, those who favored T1'ibllne, said he was not impressed with Rosenthal disagreed as to the need or a 'qualified bill, and those \\-ho preferred the argument that the press could r ely on val ue of press councils. Editors should I no bill at all. the First Amendment and the courts to think of it he said, not as a council , but a s i 'The hands '\-ere not counted but it ap protect freedom of the press a nd their press prosecutor, a pr ~s s judge, and a pear ed that about 25 per cent favored an confidential relationships with news sour press jury all in one_ What proponents albsolute 'bill and an apparent equal num ces. He didn't li ke the proposal of Her were saying, according to Rosenthal, is ber a qualified bill. A preponderant num Railsback but favored a qualified shield. that the press cannot be fail' and accurate ber of t hose who raised their hands. how Ba iley was insistent that even if no f eder and sen-e the needs and demands of the I e\-er, indicated that they would be happy al law was enacted, ASNE should contin public's right to know. That is not tru E'_ with no bill. ue to press for shield laws in the states. The press co uncil, the Times manal!in g A leading ' speaker on the panel, the Senator Ervin has railed shield legisla ed itor asser ted, could lead to staJl(lardiza moderator of which was Hobert Fichen tion the most complex he has ever had to tion of the press and is antithetical to 1 berg, of the Knickerbocker Neil'S and Selze deal ,,-ith and Fichenberg agreed_ One of the ,,-hole concept of a free and indepen 'I'Lec/ady Union-St(/?" and chairman of the the complexities, he pointed out, was dent press_ If the press accepts " tllis kind ASNE's Freedom of Information Commit defining "newsmen" and whether the of intermediary," said Rosenthal, it is ac tee, was Senator Alan Cranston, of Cali definiti on should includE' authors, pam cepting the idea that the pr ess is a public Iornia, co-author with Senator Edward phlet eer s, E'tc. Hi thard NL Schmidt , Jr., uti lity, subject to official r egulation. Kennedy of the strongest absolute protec attorney for the A SNE 'iyondered if the Hughes favored an impa r tial judge of tion bill yet int roduced. definition should be broad pnough to coyer t hc performance of the press and thoul!ht Senator Cranston said that the Water " co rporations," that is pul;iishel's. as well the press ~': o ulC\ gain a lot from an inde g.ate case demonstrated the need for an as indiyidual ne\\-S mE'l1, so that bosses pendent nwnitoring of its performance, absolute bill and urged the media to con might, in some case, go to jail instead of The Co uncil, he said, would not act as a tinue to press for enactment of his bill. thcir r eporters. "twentieth centun- star-cha mher" but He said that he and Senator Kennedy would support edi t~ r s more often than it, w ere working on Senator Sam J. Ervin, Coundl o bjcl:li",' s I)ullillcd would criticize them_ ThE' credi hil ity of the :.J r_, chairman of the Judiciary Subcommit press, he thought, "-ould be str engthened tee which is considering the dozen or more The primary objecti,'e of the 1'wentieth by cooperat ion \\-ith the CounciL bills that have been dumped in the hop Century Fund's National Xews Co uncil, is Hughes wasn't sure that the Twentieth "to open up a trustworthy line of commu per, to report out their bill, instead of the <::e ntUl·~' Fund's Council is the right ilgen nication between the medi a and the puhlic one Senator En'in himself introduced_ Hp cy to make the appra isals necessary to on their common right to know," Justice said Senator Ervin had r ejected their str engthen credihility but said "I 'm for Hoger Traynor, chairman of the Council , suggestion, and asked the editor s to con giving it a fair try." tinue to press for his bill and r eject the t old the editor s. ::IlacDonald did not think press council s Ervin measure. "The Council is not Congress and it can Representative Tom Railshack , Illinois make no law," he said. " It has no power would co nstitute a danger to press free Republican, t he r anking minority member to r egulate. It has no sanctions except dom. The first amendment gua rantees a of the House Judiciary Subcommittee, publi city, for which it must depend on the f r ee press but not a r esponsible press, he calied Seantor Cranston's bill unrealistic media. Its yen- lack of ties ",ith offi cial said , and the press ('ounc'il mi~h t di sarm critics of press irresponsibility_ He :a:nd said that Congress was " not going to dom should a ll·ay the fretfulncss of those b uy it." He favored a bill which the mi who imag ine that it could possibly create thought that there is a t hreat to press freedom today but it did not come primar Ill o~itv member s of the Kastenmeier sub an atmos pher e of public watchfulness t hat ily from Administration critics 0 1' press com l~it tee have sponsor ed which would would in time r ender the public r eceptive odTord what he called "two tier" protec to government r egulation of the media." "('ounl'il proposals. "r think the primary t 'ion, namely absolute protection from (lis Justite Travnor , former Chi ef Justice threat stems from the di safrel'tions and dosure to grand juries or co ngressional of the S upren-1 e Court of California and sus picions of r eader s, many of whom qucstion whether we are gi\-ing them f ai r , c ny e~ tigator s , and qualified protection in now a , t eacher at liastings Co ll e~e of acc urate and significant ncws cove ra~ e . If j ludicial proceedings. Law, was thc speaker at a panel t itl ed t lw r c wer e not this hackg round of reader I .Journalist s who appeared on thc panel "National Press Cou ncil: Th rcat 0 1' Oppor tunity_" Eu~ e n e Patte rso n of lhe Sr. j> ,, di saffection, ther e would be littlc t o fear '1' ",',ere also dh-idecL J oh n La\\TenCe, h E' at! of from go\'ernmental critics and th(' re t he 'Washington hureau of the L o~ !l11rJ1'- tp.rsbllry Tim e., was mod erat or and mem would be litlle public support for judges les 1'illl e .~ , strongly favo r ed the ahsolute bers were A. III. Hoscnthal, managing edi who s(,IHI l'Pportel's to jail fOl· perform ill)! s hield. Lawrence \w~ n t to jail for a few tor of the 'Y I' IC Yo/'/.- Tillles. ,\nthony Day their historic duly." 1 hours last F ehruary when' he r efu sed to editorial page cditor of the L os A l, .qeles h un over to a court tapes of a rpcorcled Tilll es, John Hughes of the Christi(/n ( Colliil/I/ (' d on Jlll rJl' 10) .. en fared better on small newspapers than Wald said that greater opportunity, larger ones and reflecting optimism that rather than more money, was a primary ASNE progress on smaller papers might lead to r eason for many repor ters leaving jour (Continued from page 9) more progress on larger ones. About 44 nalism. He also mentioned things the per cent of the women executives believed copy desks do to drive some reporters I there is less discrimination in journalism out of journalism, and said others left MacDonald didn't know whether the because the journalism of today lacked proposed press council would prove benefi than in other professions. On the panel, Juanita Greene of the the romanticism of ea rlier eras. cial to the public and the press but saw no reason why "the experiment should not be lI1'iami H e'rald said that she was "bothered by the suspicion that she hasn't ever been What's wrong with press' made" and he thought a "continuing pos involved in management decisions" be ture of refusal to cooperate" was not in Ben H. Bagdikian and Gloria Steinem , cause she is a woman. She was certain it the best interests of the press. frequent and persistent critics of newspa was sex discrimination. She said that she :Tony Day, however, thought the press pers and editors, told editors to t heir had seen men less capable than she was faces that they were not doing a good job council "would do some mischief and we appointed city editor while she was should oppose it." He named three pre and consequently were losing favor in the passed over. "I don't want to be a man," eyes of the public. mises on wh'ich arguments in support of she said, "but it would have been nice to councils are based and said all three are "Unfortunately," he said, "there isn't be an editor." much reason for most of t he American wrong. Ellen Goodman of the B oston Globe and press to congratulate itself about Water One false premise was that the chief Sally Bixby Defty of the St. LOllis PO,qt gate and associated crimes. This adminis failing of the American press is its reck Dispatch, were panelists with somewhat tration, or a t least its highest staff mem lessness. The opposi te was true, he divergent vie,,'s, Miss Goodman said that bers, knew how to use the big li e and maintained, and the press suffers "more in order for women to be successful in precious fe"; newspapers had the desire from timidity than r ecklessness, more ne',·s rooms they must be "defeminized." or the competence or the guts to do any from inhibition than extravagance." She said that newspapers r epresent the thing about it. The average newspaper . A second false premise Day said, was "white male establishment" in which including most of the big ones, did pre the idea inherent in press councils that women and blacks are the outsiders and cious little for their co untry when it "there is some set of clearly defined and they should "break out together." Miss counted, which was during the campaign agreed upon standards by which the press Goodman is editor of the Globe's Home before people voted." can be judged." The press, he said, Furnishings department. There are 2200 accredited correspon doesn't work by rules and "you can't codi Miss Defty, the first woman city editor dents in Washington, Bagdikian said, but fy our craft. You can't regularize it or of the Post-Dispatch, said that her news no more than 14 r eporters ,,·ere put on regulate it. paper did not have women in management Watergate full time fo r any substantial "The third false premise," Day said, is positions and that the problem of female period during the fall presidential cam "that somehow the press needs some kind reporters was that they get "all the junk paign. of institutional defender to defend it assignments" while the men get the good " Armies of r eporters, sometimes in against politicians and the public. We ones. She thought this system should be hundreds, practiced herd journalism pick don't. We are a part of politics; we are a revel·sed. ing up every trivial detail and repeating part of public life. We don't want to be it a thousand times on the standard, stere protected from either. ' Talent drain otyped surface events of the campaign, .-\ "We need all the help we can get from "Why Newspapers Lose Top Talent" baker's dozen covered the biggest political the public and politicians to defend our was the subject of a panel, moderated by story of our time." seh·es against official arrogance Gene Roberts of the Philadelphia In Ms. Steinem sounded something of the executive and judicial-but if we need the quire?·" with Gay Talese, author of "The same keynote, declaring t hat newspapers help of a press council to defend ourselves Kingdom and The Power" and "Honor should r eform the system of political re we are already lost." Thy Father," J oe McGinnis, author of porting. She criticized the judgment of "The Making of a President," Gail Shee editors in the way campaign and other Women in journalism hy, contributing ed itor, New York Maga news was reported and displayed. zine, and Rich:u·d Wald, President of Bagdikian sa" · the fact that the "news , The question of whether women jour paper industr y is t he third most profitable ~BC News as participants. nalists can expect a fair and equal chance category in the country" as affecting atti at executive jobs in editorial departments T alese said that if he had stayed with tudes toward investigative r eporting, im was discussed in a committee report and the New York T imes much of what he did plying that publishers had an eye on by panelists at the convention. The con would be repetitious and, by inference, profits rather than service to the country, census appeared to be that while equality boring. Also, at 32, he r ealized that news " Two-thirds of the countries n e \\' ~ pa had not been completely achieved preju paper reporting "'as a young man's game pers," he asserted, "have corporate rea dices were breaking down and prospects and that youngsters should have a chance sons to fear a President who is ready to of the feminine sex wer e looking up. to do their stuff, use his Department of Justice for political The report of the Women's Rights in Asked by an editor how much ego r easons," r eferring to the fact that news Journalism Committee, of which Clayton figured in his decision to leave active jour paper mergers need the approyal of the Kirkpatrick of the Chicago T?·ibllne was nalism, Talese acknowledged t hat it was a Attorney General to avoid antitrust chairman and Judith W. Brown, New B?·i factor, but Wald told the ed itors that "if charges. tain (Conn.) Hemld "vice-chairlady," you don't have ego in city rooms you are Ms. Steinem, who was called a female disclosed some results of a survey, com in trouble." chauvinist by one editor, 5aid that news prised of questionnaires sent to 1,649 dai Gail Sheehv said that the 'limitations on papers should reform their policies about ly newspapers. personal styl~ and expression of points of r eporting on such issues as abortion and One questionnaire asked editors wheth view was often a reason for top talent the equal rights amendment. er they thought women should be ad leaving the city room. Editors won't let On the panel with Bagdikian and vanced to top executive positions. Approx reporters write their stories the way they Steinem was J oseph H. Weston, ed itor, imately 500 male editors answered that want to, cut their leads and. mutilate their puhlisher, a nd di stributor of the Sha rp they believed women have the ability to journalistic prose, she said, while maga-. Citizen, described as "a journal dedicated fill top ma nagement positions and 62 of zines encourage writers to write their own to the destruction of tyranny and the per them indicated plans to promote women to style and come up with a different point fection of democracy," published at Cave such positions. Only two niale editors said of view. City, Arkansas. Weston's major complaint they did not think women should be so McGinnis said that the basic function of was that newsmen "arc too damn b zy to promoted and 444 said they had no plans newspapers is not conducive to the desires do your own work." Newsmen accept sto to promote them to high level, manage of writers and that people just happen' to ries from government offic es, he said, and ment jobs. like writing books more than writing for "operate government propaganda sta A second questionnaire, directed to newspaper s. He said he felt he had gone tions" instead of exposing the crimes, women who have attained management as far as he co uld in journa li sm so he quit inaccuracies and malfunctioning of gov jobs, brought replies indicating that wom- and became an author. ernment agencies and bureaucrats. 10 EDITOR &: PUBLISHER for May 12. 1973 THE WASHINGTON POST
By Mike Causey
\ The taxpayers are financ -to the tune of $5,~ ~1i1l.-special toll-free te,le ... ne lines over which the of Living Council sup· lies daily news stories. to Pundreds of radio stations around the country. federal a encies now er " e for radio statiOl\s 0 call tape and rebroadcast the ~iest official word from Washington. But most of t'he ncies at least make,'e '0 stations pay for the ~ I le. one calls. I COLe, however, has wo ephone lines that can be ~~ed direct (800-424-8830~. '"'e lines cost $2,2110 each .a ~~nth. Added to this cost. IS e price tag of the recordmg fpr coptept" ~pment ,used to ~ve out The Defense Department tlle news stories, bringmg the also has a news broadcast ~ce tag for the "free" · news numbei' that radio stations and CULl,; ottlclalS say the ~on.· /lervice to between $4,800 and some out-of·town newspapers free information is proVlded $5,000 monthly. . as a public service to keep , No y&t knows 'ust also call to find out what is happening at the Pentagon. voters in the know, and ~ ow many t e coun s Last Friday, the day after Mr. tihere is '0 attempt to sp ! ear r Nixon named a new !Secretary feed ra~ 0 stations with go ~ governmen -supplied it~ of Defense, callers to the OX ernmentl news. Incident , f pAl of regular newsoo&1s 7-6161 number wa-e treated to alficlOlsf" W A VA, a looal • aslllers. a recorded message that said: news st~on, sa;y they've · HbWevet, an indication of "There are no Depadment of asked by agencies what th~y !the popularity of free govern· Defense audio releases at this can do to get more of theU' ment-supplied news comes time." items on the radio. . ~ the Agriculture Depart· Rep. Lionel Van Deerlin (D The all-news 'Operation says ment, which operates a servo Calif.) iIS condUICting his own it rarely, if ever, has us,ed similar to that of the probe into the goverJlLlllent "canned" government ston~s LC, except that it makes news broadcasting business. and when and if it does, 11s d10 statiol1l!l pay for the Van Deerlin is concerned teners will be ~dvised th,at th:e ~lephone calls. about the way such news is source of the inf'OrmatIOn . IS '!'wo weeks ago, when the ng used by some radio sta. the government, . ' grieulture Department - had I Cost of Living Counell has only one "spot news" tele ns-which pass it off ~ i ms dug up by their 0; nominated 36-year-old program phone wire, it got between 75 orters-and also about 1 e and 100 calls a day, most analystjger L. Kruezer 8t to ·the taxpayers of t e the Oon 'essional Fellows i from radio stations who either ~$5,000 a month Cost of Li~ g grllill1. nners serve a ye , broadcast the recorded in· Council telephone line. usually jl a key staff spo~ formation straight from the ...... - the Hou or Senate operati lephone or taped it for lal e. Agriculture has si e 'tched to a number of tel ne lines, which sup~ y ews tailored for various g aphical regiODi and a con· sumer information telephone recording. \ \ The Federal Diary THE WA~HINGTON POST Saturday, May 12, 1973 . I Prob~ Set of Packaged Radio ~News ture and half a dozen other Travel Allowances: General Nixon an excellent opportu agencies, without labeling or Servi~es Ad~nistration . is nity to open up, using new identifying them - as govern- studYing a possIble .upgradIng faces "the long clogged chan- By of the present per dIem allow- ' ment repor~s. ance of $25 for most federal nels of communication" with Mike The chaIrman. w.ants the workers. A change, when it the career civil' service. F~de. ral commum~abons C~m- comes,. would have to be ap- NFFE chief Nathan T. Wol mISSIon to momtor stab on proved by Congress,omlr which is k ' says s 0 me 0 f th e PreSI- - Causey b d t d al t d t roa. cas'f " s, an dso " .0 ee er- itself getting flack from staf-· d en t' s recentl y reslgne. d aide s mine I propagan a 1S cr ep- fers who say $25 isn't enough t d dbl k t ing into the canned . news re·. . . . ac e as roa oc s 0 career I. d th In many clbes to cover food bureaucrats trying to gain Mr ports. H e h as a 1so as",e e and lodging . ' , . The head of the H~se Com· National Association of Broad· ' . NIxon s ear . and themselves ' ~tt -h casters to use its code board Defense Job Placements: "rode roughshod" over various m mca I ~mml- ee as to warn stations against using CIVIl. . ServIce . CommIssIon . . has agenCIes. . " There could be no o~t ered a probe of n~ws pro· government news without acted to help the 26,000 civil- more graphic example of the . grams packaged by the gov· identifying it as such. ians displaced by the lat.est me'aning .of ,~erit in t~e f~d ernment and submitted over Ge'neral Accounting Office round of base closures find eral serVIce, Wolkomlr Said, the telephone to willing radio has .been ordered to provide other jobs. "than the manner in which ca stations around. the country. data on the extent of a&fDcy CSC and the Interagency reer workers have fulfilled Rep. Torbert H. Macdonald radio broadcast services "UIeir Personnel Group are working their duties . . . at a time of (D-Mass.) fears that the dial·a· cost and "on the cont~' n t of to set up assistance programs critical emergency almost une !l.torx system, where,by 'raa!O the programs." This column channeling the surplus work· qualed, in Our history ..." stthons telephone federal reported that early this year er~ to other federal agench!s, Joseph Califano, former top agencies for recorded news newswriters at Interior were prIvate employers and local aide to President Lyndon B. "spots" could result in satura- under pressure' to producf! governments. CSC is also Johnson, will talk about the tion news management by go v- radio stories that reflected checking agency hiring plans presidency and the Congress ernment, with the cooperation favorably on Mr. Nix.(Jn's bud· for the coming year, and will May 17 at Sodety for Public of low·budget, understaffed get and knocked congressional arrange for meetings between Administration's luncheon at radio stations. plans for increased spending. prospective employers and the George Washington Uni- Macdonald acted after this "This kind of partisan' pro· workers. versity Club. Call 785.3260, on column reported May 10 that paganda has no place be'ing Defense has won approval Monday, for reservations. many stations are presenting marketed as objective news to issue advance layoff notices David Winterhalter of go rnment news items that reporting," Macdonald said. He of up to one year, to permit NASA's Space Shuttle pro ar!!. assed off, by accident or said he would withhold 'a de· employees time to hunt up gram leaves soon for an aca inte. t, as information gather· cision on whether' to have full· other work or mesh into fed· demic year of study... made pos ed fi om ~exist!}n.t..JAT.ubing. scale heaTings on the matter, eral placement programs. sible by an Alfred P. SIOal fel ton __~~us . He wants pending the report from GAO National Federation of Fed- lowship in advanced mal! age to lnd out how Ipany stations and the FCC, and a response eral Employees says the ment techniques at the M ssa are using the new~ items, f~om from th'e private broadcasters "changit;g of the guard at chusetts Institute of Tecl nol- Commerce, InterlOr, Agrlcul· gro·up. the WhIte Hou~"''' l'!ives Mr. ogy. ; . ._ I
EDITOR & PUBLISHER NEW YORK, N. Y. W.24,Ooo
MAY 12 1973 Press Council • announces 15 appointments . I I ! Th . . Media members- e compositIOn of the fifteen-member Loren Ghiglione, editor and puhlisher of National Nell's Council was announced the SOlltlilwici.ll e (Mass.) El'ening News; May 8 by its chairman, Roger J. Traynor. Mary Ivins, co-editor of the Texas Ob- Of the fifteen members, nine are public ! se1'ver; Ralph Otwell, managing editor of members, and six are representatives of the Chic((go Sltn-Time,q ; Ralph Renick, the news media. vicepresident and news director of .WTVJ The Council's establishment was urged tv Miami' William Rusher, publisher of last. Novcmber in a unanimous report by N~ltional Re1'ietv; and R. Peter Straus, an \Ildepe~dcnt task forcc appointed by president of Strauss Communications, Inc., the Twcntleth Century Fund. The Fund is which operates radio station WMCA in one of thc eight foundations that will provide financial support to the council New York. for a trial period of three veal's. A Twentieth Century Fund spokesman , The National News CoZmci! will be con said that to date donations and plcdges totalling $800,000 ha\'e been received. A ce~·ned. initi~lly' with national news sup p!Jers mcludlllg, wire services, news maga goal of $1.2 million has been sct to cover zmes, network tv, and public tv and radio. the Council's first threc years of opera It w'ill attempt to fulfill the role of "om- tion. The Twentieth Century Fund \\'i.1I : budsman," investigating complaints contribute $100,000 a year to the Council. '---...., brought by both the public and news :------..~a, and issuing reports on matters afTecttng-the-J1atio.nal-press~It--wiILhave no cocrcive pOII· er. - The members, apart from Traynor, whose appointment was previously an nounced, are: Public sector- Joan Ganz Cooney, president of Chil (h'en's Television 'Workshop, creators of "Scsame Street;" Thomas B. Curtis, former Missouri Congressman and now vicepresident and general counsel of En cyclopaedia Britannica, recently resigning as chairman of the Corporation for Public Bro:idcasting; Irving Dilliard, former edi torial page editor of the ."'t. LOllis Post ])i' CHICAGO SUN-TIl'.lES D. 536,108 SUN. 709 ,123 ~, 1 MAY 1 0 \973 Assessing --the press , Colu~nist David S. Broder com press in serving as the public's proxy. mented in ' Wednesday's Sun-Times Britain has a national press council. about imperfections in the perform- There have been such groups locally in .ance of the press, the need for more the United States, and lVIinnesota has energetic assertion of the right to a statewide press council. The new gather and disseminate news - and the group, however , is the first in the facl ~; uch press assertiveness requires United States of national scope, and a degree of public support that still its work will be admittedly ex must be earned. It ca n be earned, in perimental. There is even disagree the view of Pulitzer Prize-winner Bro ment among the niedia as to the del', t h r aug h honest comm unicat.ion National News Council's worth and .\\lith readers "about onr profession, its goals, The Sun-Times is among news value to them - alidits limitations." papers that have agreed to co-operate It ' i$ significant thal the same edi with the counciL Its managing editor, tions of The Sun-Times carried an an Ralph Otwell, will be one of the six nouncement of the formation of the media representatives on the l5-mem Nationa l News Council. The council, bel' board. Neither the New York finan ced by the 'Ilvent.i eJJJ_~e n tlJiL_ Times nor Time Inc., on the other Funcl,.l!l1c1 other foundations, has set hand, endorses the council. - for ilself a task parallel to that pro Such a division of opinion is healthy, posed by Broder: It will examine pub of c:0urse, and should heighten interest lic complaints concerning the accura in the news council's performance. cy and fairness of news presentation. That performance will be best tested At the same time. it will seek to fore by how well the council communicates. stall [lilY efforts at governmental or with both public and press on matters private infringement of First Am end affecting a free and accurate flmN of ment freedoms which could limit the information. NEWPORT, R. I. NEWS D. 14.500 . j MAY 1 01973 7fT~ ... ' ~ 01 . - •• - 0------.-.-- ,Medias Said Too Sensitive -T~ ,News Coun'cil Scrutiny SOUTHBRIWE, Mass. (AP) "People in the newspaper The council's only influence, - News organizations are over- business have been quick to Ghiglione said, will be in the sensitiveClbout threats to their suggest threats to freedom of publicity it receives for its rec freedom, In the view of the the press when anyone suggests ommendations. youngest member of the newly scrutiny of their operGitions," The council will "provide a formed National News Council, Ghiglione said in an interview. place where members of the a private media watchdog "I can't say definitely and fi- public can go with complaints group. nally that there isn't a potential about the accuracy of the na Loren F. Ghiglione, 32, editor ' for that. But I don 't think it ex- tional news wholesalers," as . and publisher of the South- ists in the structure of the well as "respond to attacks on bridge Evening News, was one council." the media by government," he of 15 named Tuesday to the . Ghiglione said the council, said. council. The council, set up to which was recommended by the receive and evaluate public Twentieth Century Fund, is not Although the tasks are equal complaints about news bias and a government organization and ly important, he said, "the sec inaccuracies, has been criti- has no real power. It is funded ond function has been carried cized as a source of po tential by Twentieth Century and seven on quite eloquently by the press censorship. other foundations. on its own." QJ4r iUu5Ilitt!Jtl11t Vng! WASHINGTON , D. C. II. WO.US SUN, 657,550 MAY 9 1973 ~NetV Group ~ To Monitor /Ne'tu ,~ ~eport~ . I . i '.j~, I . 1- ' _ NEW YORK, May 8 (UPI) , joan Ganz Cooney, 43, presi· Th,e "National News Council," dent of the Children's Televi· a 11ew gr,oup cre.ated to 1l10ni sion \\'orkshop; Dorothy R. .{or' the fairness and accuracy Height, GO, director of the ot" news reporting, announced YWCA's Racial J'ustice toiay that a former U,S. sena tenter; the Rev. James 1\1. tOt:, a former congressman. Lawson .Jr., 44, pastor of Cen· 'two black leaders, a feminist .tenary United lVlethodist 8,n(1 six re'presentatives of the Church, Memphis, Tenn.; Syl· me.cti'a will be among its 15 l'ia. . Roberts, 40, a Baton luembers. I 116u ge, L'a., attorney; Robert Roger J'. Traynor, 73 ,. f,ormer B. McKay, 53. dean of the New / chief justice of the California . York University law school; sugreme court, said the coun· ; 'l1:ving Dilliard, 68, former edi· eil·would also work for protec- ; tohal page editor of The st. tion of the press against gov· j Louis Poost·Dispatch. . ernment ,or private infringe· I . The six media members arc: ments of its freedom. I l ... oren G. Ghiglione, 32, editor -'Jihe council said it would ' lind publisher of the South. ta-k'e on an "ombudsman" role, bridge (i\'Iass.) Evening News; including the ·investigation of Mary T . (l\1olly) Ivins, 28, co· complaints brought by bo th the . editor of The Texas Observcr; Pllblic and the news media. HaJph 1\1. Otwell, 46. managing Supported by the Twentieth e:cIitor of the Chicago Sun· Century Fund, and seven Times: Ralph Renick, 44, news other foiindations, the council ,' dIrector anti vice president of said it would concern itself in· , WTYJ', Miami: William A. Wally with these major na· Rusher, 49. publisher of The tienal news suppliers:' i National Review; R. Peter I 'United Press International, .Str~u s. 50, presidoot of Straus tHe ·Associat.ed Press, the Los I Communications, Inc. Angeles Times·Washington , Post News Service, the Kew ' Yod{ Time~ l\J~w s Service, Newsweek Time The Chri s· · ti;ln' Scie~ce 1\ionitor, The Wall Street J'ournal, and net· ,,'ork news progl'ammin5 of the Amcrican'-- Broadcastitlg CO.. Columbia Broadc a~t in g System, National Broadcasting Co. -and public television and l:a.cIio. . "'\ -.The eight "public" members of the ('ouncil besides 'Traynor are _Albert Gore, 63, former U,S. senator from Tennessee. now chairman of the board of Island Creek · Coal Co., Cleve· land. 'and Thomas B. Curtis, 61, former congressman from Missouri, now vice president and grneral counsel of Ency· cLopedia Brittanica. __----~--:..L ~ - . -_ . ... ----._.... The eight "public" memoers of the council ijJqt I Etumtttg ~trn~ besides Traynor are: tHE WASlIlNGTONDAIU NE\~S • Albert 'Gore,' 63, former WASHINGTON, D. C. senator from· Tennessee , D.. 303,506 SUN. 338, 862 now chairm an of the board . of Isla nd Creek Coal Co., Cleveland. • Thomas B . Curtis, 61, , MAY 9 \973 ~p.. former congressman from 'Missouri, now vice pres i :dent and general counsel /New Group 'of Encyclopedia Brittani ·ca. Curtis resigned recent :To Monitor 'Iy as chairman of the Cor poration for Public Broad casting. The Media • Joan Ganz Cooney, 43, , NEW YORK tJPI)- A president of the Children's IS-member "National Television Works hop, News Council" has been which created "Sesame created to monitor the Street. fairness and accuracy of • Dorothy R. Height, 60, news reporting. It will be director of the YWCA's composed of nine public Racial Justice Center and and six media members. · president of the National The group will include a 'Council of Negro Women. , ' former senator, a former .• Rev. James M . Lawson congressman, two black Jr., 44, pastor of Cente- leaders, a feminist and SIX .nary United Methodist representatives of the Church, Memp his, Tenn., . media. · and civil rights activist. , Council member Roger • Sylvia Roberts, 40 , a "J . Traynor, 73, Former Baton Rouge, La., attor- chief justice of the Califor · ney; president of the legal nia Supreme Court, said defe nse and educa tion 'yesterday the council also · fund of the Nationa l Orga will work to protect the nization 'for Women and press against infringe head of the committee on ments of its freedom. : rights for women of the The council said it would American Bar take on a n "ombudsman" Association's section on role including the investi individua l rights. . gati'on ef complaints • Robert B . McKay, 53, brought by both the public :dean of the Ne\v York and the news media. Uni ;ersity law school . ' . Irving Dilliard, 68 , for SUPPORTED by the mer editorial page editor Twentieth Cent ~ ~ L y~ .nd , of the St. Louis Post-Dis whi'ch- -re-commended its patch, now ferris pro!.es creation in a report in sor of journalism at Prin November, and seven oth ceton University, Prince er foundations, the council ton, N.J. said it would concern itself The six media members initially with these major are : national news suppliers : • Loren G. Ghiglione, 32, United Press Interna editor and publisher of the tional, the Associated Southbridge 6Mass.) Eve Press the Los Ange le s ning News. , Times'-\Vashington Post • Mary T . 6Molly) Ivins, News Service, the Ne w 28, co-editor of t he Texas York Times News Service, Obse rver. which also carries stories .• Ralph M. Otwell, 46, from the The ~t a r-N e ws, managing 'e ditor of the Newsweek, Time, the Chicago Sun-Times. . Christia n Science Monitor, • Ralph Re nick, 44, News the Wall SU-eet Journa l, director and vice presic and network news pro dent of WTVJ, Miami. gramming of the A'm~ri • William A. Rushe r, 49 , can Broadcasting Compa publisher of the National 'ny, Columbia Broadcast Review, . ing System, Nationa l • R. Peter Straus , SO, 'Broadcasting Co mpa ny president of Stra us Com· and P ublic Televis ion and munica tions , Inc . , whic h radio. operates '¥MCA Radio in New Yorl<-