Networks Reviewing Policies on Paying for Exclusive Interviews
Date: 02 April 1975
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
CBS, NBC and ABC are examining their policies regarding exclusive ints as result of controversy over televised int with H R Haldeman, for which he was paid $50,000; networks profess to be against paying for ints but there have been number of recent instances of it; persons such as Sirhan B Sirhan, William L Calley Jr, John W Dean 3d, G Gordon Liddy and Aleksandr I Solzhenitsyn have recd money for network news appearances; number of cases of paid access to newsmakers in relatively brief time has caused concern among network officials who fear that activity could lead to checkbook competition, with dangerous implications for quality of journalism; concern is heightened by fact that several of persons paid have been convicted of crimes; mail recd by CBS indicates that payment to Haldeman angered many viewers, but 2 competing networks are displeased with CBS for what they consider breach of ethics; accuse CBS of streching its policy permitting news figures to be paid only for memoirs, book rights and equivalent of magazine articles; ABC News pres William Sheehan calls int 'outright buy of a news exclusive'; NBC News exec producer Reuven Frank, NBC News pres Richard C Wald, CBS pres Arthur R Taylor and CBS News sr vp Bill Leonard comment (M)
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Overseas Press Club Gives Photo and Reporting Prizes
Date: 02 April 1975
Overseas Press Club names winners of '74 awards: Robert G Kaiser (Washington Post), W Eugene Smith, Lou Cioffi (ABC), John Palmer, Tom Streithorst, Phil Brady and Liz Trotta (NBC), Ovie Carter (Chicago Tribune) and Phillip W Whitcomb (Christian Science Monitor) (S)
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TV Study Unit Told State Suffers Split Personality
Date: 01 April 1975
Camden, NJ, Mayor Angelo J Errichetti on Apr 1 says that NJ is actually 2 states, North Jersey and South Jersey, and that no increased news coverage would alter situation, hearing by NJ Sen Comm on Adequacy of TV Coverage of NJ; defends news coverage of Camden and says that geographical div of state is illustrated by fact that State Sen John M Skevin mispronounced Errichetti's name when he was called as witness; comm is mandated by Sen resolution to investigate quantity of TV news coverage allotted to NJ by NY and Phila stations; Skevin and com co-chmn Sen Joseph A Maressa agree with Errichetti that state is handicapped by sharp North-South distinction, but both insist that improved TV coverage could help; reprs from Phila stations WCAU, KYW and WPTZ defend adequacy of their coverage of state; illus (M)
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State Urged to Curb Eavesdropping by Employers
Date: 01 April 1975
By WALTER H. WAGGONER Special to The New York Times
Walter WAGGONER
NJ Assembly's Dem majority leadership urges investigation into possible need for curbing or regulating growing practice of 'eavesdropping' on employe phone calls by private cos in NJ; Assemblyman William J Hamilton Jr to propose action at NJ Sen Judiciary Com hearing on Apr 3; com, under chairmanship of Sen James P Dugan, has a been hearing testimony from governmental, private and legal-profession witnesses with view toward writing 6-yr amended extension to NJ's '69 wiretap law; NJ Atty Gen William F Hyland is pressing for extension (M)
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Notes on People; Ford Photographer Is Shot at in Vietnam
Date: 01 April 1975
Lew Scotton makes 20-day, 115-mi snowshoe trek across Yellowstone Natl Pk; Scotton and Ralph Jenkins photographed wildlife; Scotton, member of Explorers Club, recieved $500 grant for the trip (S)
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Sports News Briefs; Allen, Without Team, Star Nominee Israel Five Self-Proclaimed Champion Swedish Team Takes Africa Rally Brown of Lehman Heads CUNY Stars Trout Season Opens Today
Date: 01 April 1975
Swedes Andersson and Arne Hertz (Peugeot) win 5-day, 3,557-mi East African Safari auto rally (S)
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