MINE UNION EXCLUDES TWO MORE REPORTERS; Official of Newsmen's Group Calls Convention Action a 'Classic' Violation of Constitution
Date: 28 September 1976
By BEN A. FRANKLIN Special to The New York Times
Ben FRANKLIN
United Mine Workers conv on Sept 27 excludes reporters Frank Martin of Workers League pub Bulletin and Mark Lantz of Workers Vanguard of NY, raising total of excluded newsmen to 9; Reporters Com for Press Freedom exec dir Jack Landau says action appears to violate 14th Amendment (M)
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Editors Differ on Ethics of Using Political Candidates' Paid Articles
Date: 27 September 1976
By DEIRDRE CARMODY
Deirdre CARMODY
Finding by Nashville Banner that 13 of 22 wkly Tenn newspapers do not rept candidates running for office unless candidates pay for article or pol announcement spurs controversy over how widespread practice is; Mo Press Assn exec dir William Bray calls practice unethical, but says assn cannot dictate newspaper policy; eds of many weekly papers defend practice; several other newspapers execs comment; James E Charlet Jr, gen mgr of Clarksville Leaf Chronicle and 13 other wkly Tenn papers, says he ordered papers still charging for announcements to separate news and ad; ANPA gen mgr Jerry Friedheim comments; Natl Newspaper Assn exec dir Theodore A Serrill defends practice (M)
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Ford Says He Finds No Bias in TV News
Date: 28 September 1976
Pres Ford, in int with TV Guide (pub) released on Sept 27, says he has not found any bias in TV news and believes medium's news coverage of his activities has been 'very fair and very broad' (S)
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Schorr Denies He Tried to Link Colleague to Printing of Spy Report
Date: 27 September 1976
By ROBERT McG. THOMAS Jr
Robert McG
Schorr denies he tried to implicate Stahl, int on TV program 60 Minutes; denies that he had told Duke Univ audience that CBS had instructed certain correspondents to go easy on Richard Nixon on night he announced resignation and that correspondents had complied with instructions (S)
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Nixon, Aides Named In a $22 Million Suit
Date: 28 September 1976
Columnist Jack Anderson files $22-million damage suit on Sept 27 in which he accuses former Pres Nixon and 19 subordinates of conducting 5-yr campaign to destroy Anderson's credibility and take away his 1st Amendment rights; suit cites 17 different allegations of harassment, investigations or surveillance by CIA or by Plumbers (S)
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