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Should television be liable for inspiring such violent crime? Last week the Supreme Court cleared the way for a jury to try an $11 million negligence suit filed by the victim, Olivia Niemi, and her mother, Valeria Pope Niemi, against NBC and the Chronicle Publishing Co., owners of KRON-TV. Niemi's lawyer, Marvin Lewis, charges that by depicting a graphic rape scene in a movie aired at 8 p.m., when many children are watching, the network and the station are responsible for her daughter's rape...
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Even before the Burger decision, the FCC early this year denied a license renewal for Boston's Channel 5 on the ground that the station's ownership by the Boston Herald Traveler created a news monopoly. In San Francisco, KRON-TV has run into license-renewal delays because the FCC is investigating whether its ownership by the San Fran cisco Chronicle constitutes undue concentration of media control. Because of interlocking ownership of professional sports teams by its parent company, and in turn, its owners, WCCO-TV in Minneapolis is charged by its rival station with having a monopoly...
...Rupp. Guard Louie Dampier has developed into a deadly outside shooter (21.5 points per game). Forward Larry Conley has found his calling as the team's playmaker, has 48 assists this season. Forward Pat Riley has boosted his scoring average 5.6 points to 20.8. And Guard Tommy Kron has turned into a tiger on the backboards-thanks to a Rupp-prescribed weight-lifting program to develop his pushing muscles. The big new addition is 6-ft. 5-in. Sophomore Center Thad Jaracz, a local boy from Lexington who put in an undistinguished year on Kentucky's freshman team...
Habeas Corpus. In St. Louis, Mortician August Kron Jr. confessed to police that "relatives would not put out the money for the funeral," led them to the basement where the embalmed body of a woman had lain in an open wooden casket for 40 years...