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This statement set the problem, "to whom and what are newspapers responsible," before the group: Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor, Bob Eddy, telegraph press editor of the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Nieman Fellow, Hugh Morris, state capital reporter for the Louisville Courier-Journal and Nieman Fellow, and Douglas M. Fouquet '51, ex-president of the CRIMSON...
...Hutch Forum Committee will present Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor; Robert Eddy N.F. of the St. Paul pioneer Press; E. Hugh Morris N.F. of the Louisville Courier Journal; and Douglas M. Fouquet '51, ex-president of the CRIMSON...
Should newsmen be licensed as lawyers and doctors are? Proposals to license them are pending in Belgium and The Netherlands, and in Italy journalists must now register with the Ministry of Justice. Last week in Rome, Editor Erwin Canham of the Christian Science Monitor warned an international congress of journalists against the "tragic disaster" of licensing...
Said Editor Canham: "Close parallels have been drawn between the newspaper profession and such other registered and carefully qualified professions as medicine. But the parallels were false and dangerous: "Ideas must always be free, Tney must never be licensed . . " It made no difference, he added, whether licensing was by a government agency or by a self-regulating body of journalists. Said Canham: "Consider the great martyrs in the battle for freedom of the press. If their right to express their great ideas had depended on the vote of their own colleagues, many of them would have been voted...
...defense matters. Under its "right of correction," a signatory country that feels a correspondent has distorted the news can send its own version to his government, which must release the correction to all news agencies but may not require its publication. All in all, U.S. Delegate Erwin D. ("Spike") Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor, thought the treaty a beginning step that would strengthen "agreed principles based on the right of the people to know...