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Twentieth Century Fund backs press freedom safeguards
A background paper from the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on the Government and the Press argues the First Amendment is not a blanket shield for press freedom. It urges legal action to defend reporters notes and sources, promotes model legislation for newsmen privilege, and highlights police posing as journalists and underground press pressures as key issues.
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New York
Twentieth Century Fund
Fred P. Graham
Supreme Court
New York Times
Graham
Task Force
Fund
Department of Justice
Lawrence K. Miller
Pittsfield
Mass
The
Banner
Twentieth Century Fund Board of Trustees
Robert Williamson
Maine Supreme Judicial Court
Jack Bass
Charlotte Observer
Thomas King Forcade
Underground Press Syndicate
Bert H. Early
American Bar Association
Norman Issacs
Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
LF. Palmer Dr
Chicago Daily News
George E. Reedy
Roger Rook
Clackamas County
Oregon
Mike Wallace
CBS News
Howard Woods
St. Louis Sentinel
Ralph de Toledano