Patrick Rastner Anniversaire, Date de Naissance

Deluge of Press Releases Splits the P.R. Industry

Date: 01 July 1991

By Randall Rothenberg

Randall Rothenberg

Touching off a debate more typical among sports fans, a small public relations newsletter has accused the industry of doing too much pitching and not enough hitting. The result is the sort of donnybrook that businesses often hire public relations experts to quell. The newsletter, The Bulldog Reporter, asserts in its current issue that mass mailings of press releases and story proposals by public relations people are damaging the industry's reputation and alienating journalists. The criticism has brought both indignant denials and sad agreement in the industry.

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'No Harm Was Done'

Date: 30 June 1991

By Erwin N. Griswold

Erwin Griswold

The Pentagon Papers case resulted in a sort of phantom decision by the Supreme Court. The case "decided" was not actually the case before the Court. The Government's basic concerns were legitimate, because Government officers, including myself, assumed that the Papers given to The New York Times were the same as those deposited in Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNarama's Pentagon safe. This was not exactly so. Dr. Daniel Ellsberg, at a Harvard seminar last April, said he never gave The Times the most troublesome part of the Papers: the four volumes relating to the "negotiating track." Dr. Ellsberg also said he had blocked out footnotes on pages he delivered, thus withholding important information such as names, places and dates.

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Headliners; No Such Thing?

Date: 30 June 1991

For six months, Benjamin Rodriguez poured out his 18-year-old heart to a reporter from The New York Post: Benji, as he was called, described his workaday world as a mugger, telling in sometimes gory detail how he committed up to 30 armed robberies a week. When the reporter poured out his story in several installments last week, Police Commissioner Lee P. Brown said he was outraged. He demanded, "Did the newspaper even consider the fates of the victims in waiting, the people who would be beat up, carved up, shot up while The Post perfected its story?" The Post's executive editor, Jerry Nachman, said it was not his newspaper's job to collar criminals and that that Mr. Brown was simply embarrassed at the authorities' inability to stop "people like Benji." After Mr. Rodriguez was arrested, charged with attempted robbery and other crimes, Mr. Brown said that the youth might be less of a terror than The Post reported. He said that Benji confessed that "he fabricated most of the stuff."

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Pentagon Papers, 20 Years Later

Date: 30 June 1991

By David Rudenstine

David Rudenstine

Twenty years ago today, the Supreme Court rejected the Nixon Administration's attempt to stop The New York Times and The Washington Post from publishing parts of the Pentagon Papers, the top-secret Pentagon history of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia. It was the first time in U.S. history the Government went to court to try to stop the press from publishing documents for reasons of national security. Today, the significance of the case is being lost at a time when the Government is withholding information for reasons less substantial than those at stake in the Papers case.

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Stamps

Date: 30 June 1991

By Barth Healey

Barth Healey

Who's Who Collectors wondering who's who on United States stamps can now find the answers in a useful book by Richard Thomas. Published by Linn's Stamp News, its title is, not surprisingly, "Who's Who on U.S. Stamps." Many of the personalities on stamps are obscure: Who, for example, was Philip Mazzei, who appears on a 40-cent airmail stamp issued in 1980? (He was an Italian-born aide to Jefferson, and he was chosen as the subject for a stamp under pressure from the Italian Government.)

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Current Law Protects Postwar Environment; Censored Casualties

Date: 01 July 1991

To the Editor: Further on the subject of managed news in the Persian Gulf war:

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 01 July 1991

INTERNATIONAL A3-7 The Prime Minister of Yugoslavia and the leader of the breakaway republic of Slovenia announced that the army had been ordered to withdraw in an effort to ease the country away from the edge of civil war. Page A1 News analysis: A crucial question in the Yugoslav crisis is whether its army is exerting undue control over events, or being buffeted by them. Partly, the crisis bared some of the army's inherent weaknesses. A6

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 30 June 1991

International 3-11 An ultimatum by the Yugoslav army was issued to the secessionist republic of Slovenia, saying that unless it agreed to a cease-fire the army would take "decisive military action." Page 1

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Good News About Native Dogwoods

Date: 30 June 1991

By Joan Lee Faust

Joan Faust

THE dogwood has been magnificent this year. Especially beautiful was the May-blooming native dogwood, which belongs to the Northeastern woodlands, where it is an understory tree. Woodlands are often polka dotted with the white of its magnificent splendor. Another distinction is its horizontal branching, which makes the tree look as though it is growing in layers. Gaining in popularity is the kousa dogwood, which has just finished blooming. Unlike the native species (Cornus florida), which blooms before the leaves come out, the kousa dogwood blooms in June, and the somewhat larger flowers sit on top of the foliage. The kousa's popularity is for good reason.

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When Congress Wrote the News

Date: 30 June 1991

By George F. Will

George Will

PRESS GALLERY Congress and the Washington Correspondents. By Donald A. Ritchie. Illustrated. 293 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. $29.95.

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