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From: las@wnss (root)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: CNN Tapes
Message-ID: <sBTPT4w163w@wnss>
Date: 5 Dec 90 16:36:39 GMT
Organization: We Never Stop Searching, Austin, Texas
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This from UPI - 12-04-90 - 6:11 PM (CST) 

        A federal judge in Miami says the transcripts of the tapes of 
        deposed Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega's jailhouse telephone
        conversations belong to the public and not just ot Cable News 
        Netowrk.  C-N-N had obtained the tapes and said it had exclusive
        rights to the information.  But U-S District Judge William 
        oeveler says the public's right to know should NOT rest on what
        he terms the "whims of C-N-N's programming needs."  The judge 
        did delay the release of the transcripts until Thursday to give
        C-N-N time to appeal.  

I agree on the one hand that the news should be made available to 
everyone, but as a broadcaster does this mean that I must turn my 
exclusive story over to everyone else in town?  It almost seems as 
if the judge is making the programming decisions instead of the 
"professionals" who are "trained" to make those sort of calls.  

I'd be most interested in hearing what others on the net have to 
say in response to this. 


             Lance (Remember, It's ONLY Television!) Spangler
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