Word: news
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...NEWS ANALYSIS...
...read with interest Monday's article entitled "The Harbus News-How to Make Enemies and $5000." Mr. Goldhaber, the author, has done an outstanding job in selling CRIMSONS, but has missed the mark in his interpretation of our interpersonal relationships. We are not, as he portrays us, Machiavellian hatche-tmen. Instead, we are entrepreneurs experiencing the traditional operational and organizational problems of running The HarBus...
Newsmen are particularly sensitive to the use of subpoenas calling for their unedited files. They fear that they will be hampered in their work if confidential sources are betrayed. Hence the Justice Department has customarily negotiated the scope of subpoenas for the news media. Mitchell insisted that there had been no change of policy under his direction but conceded that "unfortunately" some subpoenas had been issued without prior negotiation. Among the most recent: one ordering New York Timesman Earl Caldwell to produce notes and tape-recorded interviews on the Black Panther Party acquired since January last year...
...Fishing. Mitchell's move came in the face of united uproar from the press. Individual newsmen and major news organizations, including CBS, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Newsweek, made it clear that they were prepared to help serve justice but were equally determined to protect confidential relationships. Hedley Donovan, editor in chief of Time Inc., declared: "Should we believe that there is no immediate relevance and that a law-enforcement body is on a 'fishing expedition' for information, we will take appropriate legal action to contest the subpoena...
...years, received only two weeks' notice that he was to be retired. More disappointed than bitter, he said: "It seems to me that I deserved more than that-at least two or three months." The question of sufficient advance warning bedevils the executives who have to break the news. Some officers insist that short notice is better than several months because the presence of resentful early retirees might affect the morale of other workers...