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USE OF CRIMMINS VIDEOTPAES IN NEWS APPROVED BY JUDGE

Date: 05 May 1981

By E. R. Shipp

E. Shipp

Once videotapes have been admitted into evidence in the trial of Craig S. Crimmins, news organizations can make reproductions of them for later rebroadcast or publication, Acting Justice Richard G. Denzer ruled yesterday in State Supreme Court in Manhattan. The ruling came at the beginning of the second week of Mr. Crimmins's trial for the murder and attempted rape of Helen Hagnes, a violinist, at the Metropolitan Opera House last July. The decision, which relied upon Federal Court determinations in the Abscam cases, was the first of its kind in a state court. Two videotapes made last August, including one that the prosecutions says is a confession, are expected to be shown to the jury of seven women and five men during the presentation of the prosecution's case later this week. The videotaped recording that reportedly contains incriminating statements by Mr. Crimmins was said to be ''the most crucial piece of evidence'' in the case.

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NEWSPAPERS FIGHT TO BAN A.T.& T. FROM ELECTRONIC NEWS OR AD MARKET

Date: 04 May 1981

By Jonathan Friendly

Jonathan Friendly

The nation's newspaper industry has stepped up efforts to persuade Congress to keep the telephone company out of the business of providing news and advertising to readers at home. The focus of the publishers' unusual and in some cases reluctant lobbying is a bill before the Senate Commerce Committee to widen the developing field of telecommunications. While the bill would encourage competitors to challenge the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, it would also let the phone company move into unregulated areas from which it has long been barred and which the newspapers are themselves exploring, such as the distribution of information to customers by television set or personal computer. 'A Full-Court Press' The publishers have won some Senate assurances that the bill will not allow the Bell system to provide ''mass media'' services, such as news updates, over its wires. But the newspaper owners and officers are waging what a committee aide termed ''a full-court press'' for language that would keep the phone company from such moves as expanding its Yellow Pages directory into electronic classified advertising.

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Actor Sounds Warning About Television

Date: 05 May 1981

By Laurie Johnston and Robert Mcg. Thomas

Laurie Johnston

He could be out of a job if his fans took his advice, but Robert Walden says he wishes people would read more. Mr. Walden, who plays the part of a newspaper reporter, Joe Rossi, on the television series ''Lou Grant,'' said some people took his character a little too seriously. ''Suddenly people have a tendency to believe more what we say than what's on the news,'' said Mr. Walden, who made his remarks in Albany while in the area for a college lecture.

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DOW JONES EXPANDS ELECTRONIC CAPABILITY

Date: 04 May 1981

By Andrew Pollack

Andrew Pollack

Dow Jones & Company started nearly a century ago by delivering handwritten financial news reports by messenger. It evolved to deliver news via the nation's largest circulation newspaper, The Wall Street Journal. Now Dow Jones is again expanding and modernizing the way it delivers business and financial news with an aggressive push into electronics. Besides its electromechnical news ticker for brokerages and business, Dow Jones already provides information on demand to 17,000 subscribers with access to computer terminals. In two Dallas-area cities, the publisher is providing information to about 30 homes via two-way cable television. The company and Knight-Ridder Newspapers Inc. have also bid $264 million to acquire UA-Columbia Cablevision Inc.

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Yellow Pages and a Fearful Press

Date: 04 May 1981

As their careful readers may have noticed, newspapers have a direct interest in the growing debate about the future of American communications. It arises from the simple fact that technology is eroding the distinction between messages that are printed and those that are telephoned or broadcast. Words can now be written in electronic impulses, transmitted by air or wire and then reproduced as oral or written texts. No one knows, therefore, whether newspapers will always be dropped at the front door or be replaced one day by news and ads printed on screens, or even paper, in the home. What newspapers most want now is not a guarantee of survival in their present form but a public policy that recognizes two vital public interests: that the information business remain open to the largest possible number of practitioners and that the advertising revenues so essential to independent news-gathering not be siphoned off by other enterprises.

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AWORD FROM THE SPONSOR; Conference Call

Date: 05 May 1981

The National Journal is a weekly magazine about Federal policies, bureaucracies and the business of Government. It also runs a conference service that brings paying customers into contact with prominent officials.

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NEWS AS ROUTINELY RECONSTITUTED REALITY

Date: 05 May 1981

To the Editor: The real lesson to be gained from Janet Cooke's fabricated story of an eight-year-old heroin addict (news story April 16) is not that infrequent miscarriages of truth need to be eliminated from newspapers but that news stories themselves are inherently ''fabrications'' and ''constructions.'' he raw material of any news story is an occurrence.

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News Analysis

Date: 04 May 1981

By John Vinocur, Special To the New York Times

John Vinocur

A little more than a month ago, a member of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's Government told a visitor that one of the Chancellor's concerns in trying to set up a weapons deal with Saudi Arabia was the effect the failure of such an effort might have on perceptions of his ability to make West Germany an influence in world affairs. The problem, as seen by the associate of the Chancellor, who flew home Friday from talks in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, was that judgments would be made not only by Saudis and Israelis but also by Americans and Russians. On Tuesday, when Mr. Schmidt announced in Riyadh that a weapons sale to Saudi Arabia was ''not feasible at this time,'' the associate was reminded of the earlier remark and asked what he thought the reaction would be in those places where West Germany wanted to maintain its influence. The answer, in a sense, was a recognition of concern that Mr. Schmidt might be seen as a man so weakened over the last six months that he could not do all he seemed capable of from 1977 until after his re-election last fall.

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News Analysis

Date: 04 May 1981

By Walter Sullivan

Walter Sullivan

The introduction by anti-abortion Senators of a bill that would define the legal commencement of human life as the moment of conception has given new urgency to a debate among scientists that began in July 1978, after the birth of Louise Brown, the first person born after being conceived in a glass dish. The discussion has focused on defining the extent to which a newly conceived embryo enjoys ''human rights. '' According to the Senate bill, proposed by Senator Jesse Helms, Republican of North Carolina, and Representative Henry J. Hyde, Republican of Illinois: ''The Congress finds that present day scientific evidence indicates a significant likelihood that actual human life exists from conception.'' Last week, at the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences, some 150 academy members, representing the nation's scientific elite, debated how to respond. They then passed a resolution, almost unanimously, that said such a statement ''cannot stand up to the scrutiny of science.''

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Company News; Chrysler Increases Engine Production

Date: 05 May 1981

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The Chrysler Corporation has increased production of its 2.2-liter, 4-cylinder engine by 25 percent with completion of a $30 million expansion of its Trenton, Mich., engine plant, the auto maker said.

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