Sunday, February 11, 1973 THE MICHIGAN DAILY page Seven THE MICHIGAN DAiLY Page Seven IF~ I i--. ------ _ -_ __ __ - - _ _ - -__ U-M DANCERS IN CONCERT AT POWER FREEDOM OF THE PRESS LSA Branzburg: Reporter under, fire l ! 401 Ever TOFFEE -IQU R TUESDAY 3:00-4:30 ebruary 13 Featuring works by: Doris Humphrey, Lucas Hoving, Vera L. Embree, Elizabeth Weil Bergmann and students. Fri.-Feb. 23: 8 P.M./Sat.-Feb. 24: 2:30 & 8 P.M./Sun.- Feb. 25: 2:30 P.M. Evenings: $3, Matinees $2 Adults, $1 Children. Tickets on Sale at Stangers: 307 S. State Street. sponsored by U-M Department of Physical Education (Continued from Page 1) fective news gatherers would be destroyed if they betrayed confi- dential sources by testifying. They also claim disclosure of news sources made them agents of gov- ernment investigator. Although Branzburg still faces extradition back to Kentucky to serve his six monthasentencerhe continues to work at the Free Press as an investigative report- er. Only recently he completed a story made possible by a confi- dential source. The work led to an expose' of a re-zoning of property initiated by the mayor of Taylor, Michigan. Branzburg said without the source, the information regarding the mayor's involvement as a sec- ret partner in an organization in- terested in the rezoned property I' Office of Financial Aid Announces . . Applications For Aid Will Be Available As Follows: Spring-Summer 1973-February 12, 1973 Fall-Winter 1973-74 FIRST-TIME STUDENTS-February 12, 1973 RENEWALS (for people who have aid now)-March 1, 1973 Foreign Students for 1973-74-February 12, 1973 1 gy Department 1 C.C. Little ryone Welcome APPLICATIONS DUE NO LATER THAN:I Spring-Summer-March 1, 19731 Fall-Winter-May 1, 1973 Foreign Students-March 31, 1973 if you need assistance for these terms, please apply through our office.I You may be eligible for loans, grants, or Work Study employment. 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He feels the media's reaction is particularly incensed with the "I was talking to a middle-level was due more to ignorance than recent flurry of subpoenas, grand heroin dealer in Detroit. I needed disinterest; they just didn't know juries, and contempt charges. some information for a story. The what the decision involved. "Freedom of the press just dealer said you've convinced me "It was an abstraction, and the doesn't mean the freedom to pub- you're not an undercover cop, and press tends to cover events. So lish, it also means the freedom to you're a reporter who has a his- when Peter Bridge went to jail, gather the news; what's the free- tory of not talking, but that's not that was an event, you can take dom to publish worth if you can't good enough for me. a picture of it, something hap- gather the news? I can't gather Because you don't have any right pened, it's a story. the news unless I have confiden- to refuse to talk to those guys, and The press goes for that, so it got tial sources," Branzburg said. they might put you in jail, and you a lot more attention in the papers He said the Supreme Court's de- might get raped, you might get rather than the Supreme Court de- cision in his case last June was an beaten; who knows what's going to cision which put him in jail. "uIt' n cson.because I disagree happen to you in that jail. The major failing of the Aei- wIts threultb because ofdis te You just might not like cock- can press as Branzburg sees it is with the result, but because of the roaches and want to get out of that that it's not aggressive enough in way they come to the conclusions investigative reporting. To him, na they did - it wasn't a sound de- zoo,kand then you might start t vestigative reporting im na- Y tional investigative reporting is the cision. It said that judges don't thinking of snitching. I'll know if Journalistic pinnacle something really understand what the needs you start thnuki ed befo e you ean he'd rather do than be the publish- of the press are. They don't under- I' et out er of the New York Times. stand how many stories are basedg g "I've been told by reporters in on confidential information," said I don't want to have tohkill you, Washington," he said, "that the Branzburg. So why should I take the risk of ' whole Bobby Baker scandal was "The court's decision discour- you having to go to jail?" Branz- known to Washington reporters ages investigative reporting. I had burg added this was a good argu- years before it broke but nobody an idea for a story about crime ment for why there has to be an took the two months it would have in Detroit a few weeks ago. My absolute privilege rather than a taken to prove it, put it together editors said it was a great story, i qualified privilege, because sources and blow the guy to hell," said but that I would get subpoenaed, want an absolute guarantee that Branzburg. so I shouldn't do the story be- they're protected. "Anytime you go to eat at the cause it wasn't worth the prison According to Branzburg, the Washington Press Club you hear sentence. media's reaction to the govern- ' all these easy Pulitzer prizes, but If I were an editor I'd be think- ment's recent onslaught on news , nobody's doing anything. They'd ing the same thing myself. Some sources should be to use more rather be trailing after the presi- newspapermen just don't consider stories based on confidentiality dent on a trip to China saying 'hey it part of their profession to sit whenever necessary. He said jok- I look at me'," he added. in jail for six months," Branzburg ingly that it might be good to have If extradited to Kentucky to said. another couple. of dozen reporters serve his six month sentence for The most important journalism in jail. contempt of court, Branzburg says is based on confidentiality accord- "The Gallup Poll shows the peo- he will appeal. If he loses the ap- --~_peal he said he will go back to Kentucky and will go to jail where he will sit until they let him out. LIBERATION STRUGGLE IN BRAZIL A FILM "NO TIME FOR TEARS" Recounts the ordeals of 9 released Brazilian pol- tical prisoners, their imprisonment and torture. 3o1 SPECIAL A DISCUSSION WITH JOURNEY TO IXTLAN JEAN MARC von der WEID=r Elected President Brazilian National Students Union,. 1969, detained and tortured by police for 1 years until released with 69 other prisoners in exchange for the Swiss Ambassador in 1971. 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