News Agencies' Work Assailed at UNESCO Session; Advisory Group Suggested
Date: 25 April 1978
Delegates to UNESCO meeting in Stockholm on flow of world news disagree sharply on now internatl news agencies cover developing nations and how their reptg can be improved; 4-day session opens with news execs and govt officials from 43 countries speaking before 16-member UNESCO comm; Saad Mujber, head of Libya's JANA news agency, accuses Western news agencies of distorting news from 3d World; comm is headed by Sean MacBride, who suggests that internatl advisory group might be established to examine performance of news agencies; other speakers include Claude Roussel (Agence-France-Presse), Joe Rodrigues (Nairobi Daily Nation), D R Mankekar (India) and Max Snijders (Utrechts Nieuwsblad) (M)
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GUILD'S SECURITY CLAUSE IS VOID, THE POST ASSERTS
Date: 25 April 1978
NY Post tells Newspaper Guild that union-security provisions of guild contract are no longer in effect, nor are arbitration procedures for any grievance since mgt statement on April 14; guild exec vp Harry Fisdell insists that contract remains in effect during negotiations under clause that says 'until or unless negotiations are terminated in writing by either party'; Martin Fischbein, special asst to publisher Rupert Murdoch, says there is no immediate action planned, such as layoffs (S)
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THE TIMES IS CRITICIZED OVER ABORTION STORIES
Date: 26 April 1978
By The Associated Press
Natl News Council upholds 2 complaints against CBS News story on abortion and dismisses 6 other complaints (S)
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TIMES CO. EARNINGS UP 32% FOR QUARTER; Profit Rises to a Record $7.1 Million as Revenues Show 19% Gain From Year-Ago Period Need for Productivity Stressed $3.7 Million Operating Profit
Date: 26 April 1978
Special to The New York Times
NY Times chmn and pres Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, at annual meeting, says in response to question from stockholder Frank Eleazer, that premature release by Washington Post of H R Haldeman book The Ends of Power should not materially affect co's revenues; says controversy over unauthorized publication of excerpts from book has had 'some impact on the Nixon memoirs' and 'is probably going to change the co's syndication business all around' (S)
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Publishers Criticize The Times; News of Haldeman Book Pays 'Open Line' Rate
Date: 25 April 1978
Roger W Straus Jr, pres of Fanar Straus & Giroux, int on Dick Cavett Show, says that in its ads NY Times favors books published by Times subsidiaries, which include Times Books and Arno Press; Simon & Schuster pres Richard E Snyder and Alfred A Knopf pres Robert Gottlieb agree; Straus cites ads for H R Haldeman book The Ends of Power published by Times Books and also Arno Press's scholarly reprints; Fanar Straus & Giroux also reprints scholarly books through Octagon Books subsidiary; Snyder says ads for Times books in newspaper are predatory practice under antitrust laws and that his attys had so informed Times by lr last wk; Gottlieb also questions coverage of Times books as news; Thomas H Lipscomb says under affiliate-ad policy of Times, Times Books pays as much as any other publisher for space it buys; Times exec vp Sydney Gruson also comments (M)
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