ITALY'S NEWSMEN START A WALKOUT; Nationwide Strike Issues Are Pay and Decisions Press Freedom Cited
Date: 14 December 1974
Special to The New York Times
Ital journalists on Dec 13 hold nationwide strike that will leave country without newspapers for much of next wk; decision to strike follows breakdown in negotiations between journalists and publishers over renewal of contracts; journalists are demanding across-the-bd increase of about $35 a mo and greater participation in making decisions on their papers; have expressed concern that press freedom is threatened by fact that more big indus concerns are buying controlling interests in newspapers; cases involving Il Messaggero, bought by Montecatini Edison, and Corriere Delia Sera, bought by Rizzoli, noted (S)
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'The Ablest Mind...'
Date: 15 December 1974
ed on death of Walter Lippmann
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TODAY AND TOMORROW
Date: 15 December 1974
By WALTER LIPPMANN
Walter LIPPMANN
reprint of column written by Walter Lippmann for defunct NY Herald Tribune; J Reston, in preface to column, notes that Lippmann regretted not having written column for NY Times
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Headliner; Walter Lippmann, An Appreciation
Date: 15 December 1974
Richard H Rovere appreciation of long-time friend Walter Lippmann; illus
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Washington Post to Reduce Its Mechanical Work Force
Date: 15 December 1974
Washington Post Co, citing drop in ad lineage for newspaper, announces on Dec 14 2-% reduction in number of guaranteed jobs in its press room; says reduction from 180 to 144 jobs is scheduled to being Dec 29; co officials rept that for 3 mos that ended Nov 30 total lines of ad printed in paper dropped 4% compared with total 1 yr earlier
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Newspaper Strike Continues
Date: 15 December 1974
Members of Newspaper Guild unit at Cleveland Plain Dealer on Dec 14 vote to reject contract offer for 2d time and continue newspaper strike entering its 44th day (S)
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'WE DEAL WITH EMOTIONAL FACTS'; TV news: visual newspapers or entertainment shows?
Date: 15 December 1974
By Robert Daley
Robert Daley
Article on differing news formats employed by CBS, NBC and ABC in NYC area to raise their ratings; viewers reptdly are mainly attracted to news program by face and personality of its anchorman: Channel 2's Six O'clock Rept with Jim Jensen, Eyewitness News on Channel 7 with Roger Grimsby and Bill Beutel, NCB's NewsCenter 4 with Chuck Scarborough and Tom Snyder; news dirs Ed Joyce (Channel 2), Earl Ubell (Channel 4) and Phil Nye (Channel 7) comment; illus (L)
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His Thought and Writings Are Very Much Alive Today; A Terrible Irony
Date: 15 December 1974
By JAMES BESTON
James BESTON
James Reston appraisal of career of late columnist and author Walter Lippmann
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Ideas & Trends; School Files: The Law Went Too Far
Date: 15 December 1974
Comment on new copyright agreement signed by ASCAP with USSR (S)
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