Privacy vs. the Press: The Issue Remains
Date: 06 March 1975
By MARTIN ARNOLD
Martin ARNOLD
Analysis of various ct rulings on issue of privacy vs press; Sup Ct recently ruled in suit brought against Kansas TV station WSB by Martin Cohn, father of rape victim, that newspaper was within law printing victim's name; held that once true information is disclosed in public ct documents open to public inspection, press cannot be sanctioned for publishing it; 2 broad categories of cases involving privacy v press's right to know are discussed; 1 concerns depicting person in 'false light' and other involves public disclosure of private facts about private persons; aim of press and its attys is to get cts eventually to apply 'Sullivan Standard' to privacy cases involving people who are not public figures; in landmark case of NY Times v Sullivan, Sup Ct held that public figure could not recover damages from newspaper in libel case unless plaintiff established 'clear and convincing' proof that statement published was false and that publication either knew it or that it acted in 'reckless disregard' to what should have been its 'high degree of awareness of probable falsity'; Ct ruled last Dec against press in 'false light case' involving Cleveland Plain Dealer's int with widow of W Va construction worker killed in bridge collapse; paper argued that it had right to rept freely about people involved in such dramatic event; but ct ruled that family was subjected to 'calculated falsehoods'; other privacy cases pending include that of Houston Chronicle which has sought state injunction against police dept's selectively denying news media access to both formal and informal arrest records and offense repts; police contend that they may deny access because it involves unjustified invasion of privacy; Sup Ct has not answered in gen terms question of which is more important, invidivual privacy or privilege of press (M)
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Daily News Is Laying Off 2,500 in Delivery Strike; NEWS LAYING OFF 2,500 IN STRIKE
Date: 05 March 1975
NY Daily News on Mar 4 announces it will suspend publication on March 5 and begin laying off more than 1/2 its 5,000 employes as drivers and deliverers continue wildcat strike that has halted paper's operations for last 3 days; NYS Sup Ct Justice Hyman Korn finds Deliverers Union guilty of contempt of ct and fines union $100,000; deliverers' unit chmn Carmine Batista repts News officials refused to meet with union leaders; union pres Carl Levy says union does not have funds to pay fine; Korn says evidence fails to sustain allegation of News that Levy was personnally guilty of contempt; News pres W H James says dept heads are sending furlough notices to more than 2,500 employes who have no necessary work to perform while strike continues; News controller Robert C Schneider testifies that paper suffered net loss of $241,000 on Mar 3; says net loss on Mar 4 was $264,000; Korn is critical of failure to use arbitration machinery to resolve dispute; text of News's furlough notice to employes (M)
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. . . Overtime Strike
Date: 05 March 1975
ed condemns strike called by NY News deliverers; says that strike over issue of overtime while thousands of others are unemployed is unjustified
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Colby Oral Fill-In to Ford On Assassination Reported; A Colby Oral Fill-In to Ford Is Reported
Date: 05 March 1975
CIA Dir William E Colby written rept to Pres Ford allegedly contained widespread and almost routine surveillance of Cuban refugees in Miami (S)
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Bitterness Erupts Over News Layoffs
Date: 05 March 1975
By MARTIN ARNOLD
Martin ARNOLD
NY Daily News employes, who have been furloughed as result of wildcat strike called by deliverers, comment on their plight; drivers' union chapel chmn Carmine Batista says he has been attempting to get drivers back to work (M)
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Daily News Strike Ends With Accord; Accord Ends Daily News Deliverers Strike; Furloughs Canceled
Date: 06 March 1975
By DAMON STETSON
Damon STETSON
NY Daily News on Mar 5 reaches tentative agreement with leaders of striking deliverers union and resumes publication; cancels staff furloughs after settlement is announced; 1st 2 editions of Mar 6 paper are not published because presses started late; impartial arbitrator Herbert L Haber says agreement will provide News with economies it seeks; union pres Carl Levy repts that News, in attempting to institute new work schedules, had predicted that no deliverer would lose more than 3 1/2 hrs of overtime, but men feared they would lose more; News labor relations dir H J Kracke comments; Levy says that News will go back to ct and attempt to have fine set aside in view of deliverers return to work; News had already obtained another show-cause order citing union for contempt for its failure to comply with preliminary injunction signed by Justice Korn; order, signed by Justice Nathaniel T Helman, is returnable on March 6; officials of other unions angered by deliverers' action (M)
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Haldeman Said to Get $25,000 For CBS Interview by Wallace
Date: 06 March 1975
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
H R Haldeman grants extensive int with Mike Wallace of CBS News for fee reptd to be 'in the neighborhood' of $25,000; CBS News says news special will include amateur movies shot by Haldeman of White House events and Pres trips; sources say that if CBS decides to use 2 programs for int, Haldeman's fee will be larger; ABC News pres William Sheehan and NBC News pres Richard C Wald deplore practice of paying for exclusivity with news figures; CBS News argues that int with Haldeman comes under series of personal memoirs it has been doing over yrs and is not in strict sense a news int; CBS News vp Robert Chandler says Haldeman will have no control over program; denies CBS is engaging in 'checkbook' journalism (M)
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Rockland to Fight TV Licenses Here Over Local News
Date: 05 March 1975
Rockland County Legis votes to challenge license renewals of NYC's 6 local TV stations on charges that they do not provide adequate news coverage of county (S)
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