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KC Times' ethics debated
Battle lines were drawn and rhetoric was exchanged, but no victor was proclaimed in a forum on a controversial use of journalism ethics last night in the Kansas Union.
"Ethics of Reporting" was the topic of the discussion, sponsored by the KU chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, the Society of Professional Engineers. The leadership of the managing editor of the Kansas City Times, and Steve Glover, director of Public Affairs at Health, Education and Welfare
The forum was based on a series of articles published in the Kansas City Times last November. The series was written by a Times reporter who worked in the Kansas City office for three months. Her HIW employers were unaware that she was a reporter
Waddle defended the actions of the newspaper and Glorioso criticized the tactics used.
Topics ranged from the public's right to know versus invasion of security to report
living the hours and the quantity of motion
"I'm not unfamiliar with the role of the
heavy", Glorioso said. "We often find ourselves on the defensive."
Glorioso that HEW found the series "fundamentally inaccurate" and questioned the ethics of planting a reporter on his phone, eavesdropping on private phone conversations and quoting from confidential and private files. Glorioio called the series one of the rankest invasions of privacy." He urged it as "gossip and office chat-chat."
"This is not journalism. It is bullshit," he said. "It is invasion of privacy."
In the course of the investigation, the reporter, Esther Bauer, discovered that several HEW employees worked on personal business while on government-paid employment. Her age has since been inducted for running a private business while working for HEW.
Gliosso contended that it was illegal for the reporter to get paid by both HEW and the Times while doing the story.
But Waddie said it was not illegal because the reporter "worked full time on HEW work."
The nature of that work, Gliorso said,
gave Bauer access to private files and
telephone conversations. She was a
receptionist on a 10-line telephone.
"We have reason to believe that we overheard phone conversations and took confidential records," Gliorso said, in unacceptable the journalism profession.
Waddle said that the reporter had not been assigned to look into the private files.
"We don't think we broke the law," Waddle said. "The U.S. attorney must agree with us. I don't think a legal issue was involved."
Waddie said the Times had not originally intended to investigate HEW and that the reporter had gone to take the Civil Service report of the case to draw the "draw" that she was hired by HEW.
"It was fairly clear" he said that it was not a witch hunt, "Waddle said. "It was an exercise in curiosity. We just wanted to be a king and let the chips fall where they may."
on one frequency and the detectors received only that frequency.
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Detector
Then the police began using an additional radar band, and the detector industry followed suit, she said.
"It's used by people who can't afford to get speeding tickets." Rose said.
The most modern police radar signals are made of a rapid succession of weak pulses, and Rose said her company had developed a unit that nicked up very soft signals.
DEFENDING THIS race to "beat the cops," Rose said, the detectors were designed to protect drivers against inattention and to make them more aware of their speed.
She said police radar was often in error because an officer aiming a radar gun would not be able to pull over another, or because by aiming the gun too low, the officer might by upengine
WHEN THE detector buzzer sounds, Ruse said, the driver can check his speed and then has an accurate speed to compare with the officer's accusation.
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officers just to keep up with bar inspections. Some cities limited their efforts to the bar owners serving underage customers. Other cities made plain clothes policemen to catch violators.
Nevertheless, students have found ways to get around the laws.
A University of Massachusetts-Amherst student said that understudy students there were "not very much in line" with the use of the name of an older student and telling the University that they lost their job.
ONE UNIVERSITY of Illinois sophomore reported that bar owners in Champlain-
Urbana often announce that the police are coming moments before they arrive.
At the University of Michigan, where 18-year-olds must be admitted to bars but can't drink, students often have a friend of legal age that pickets of beer and ask for several glasses.
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Some Michigan students bring paper cups. Many bars don't check tables to see who is actually drinking.
Fraternities have been known to hang kegs from outside windows to avoid university rules which prohibit liquor on the premises.
"If it comes down to obeying the law or grabbing a beer," Chris Wiss, Kansas City, Kan., junior, says, "The majority will go for the beer."
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"We don't see radar detectors as a license to speed," Rose said. "We see them as a means of increasing driver awareness."
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"I would suggest that most people and most businessmen in the state of Kansas are honest," he said.
Enforcement of the bill would not involve highway patrolmen setting up roadblocks and searching for the radar, Sullivan said.
More expensive units have a non-failing feature. Rose said the feature prevents mating between females, but go off, but even those units are set off by strong microwave signals such as those from X-ray detectors.
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He said that he would sell the detectors he had left in his inventory even if the bill came law and that a large black market for detectors could develop.
But Sultan discounted the possibility of a black market developing within the state.
"When something is illegal, everybody and his mother wants it." he said
CHARLES WILLIAMS, owner of the Alph Two-Way radio store in Lawrence, did not deny that the detectors he sold were used to break speed limit laws.
Officers will confiscate any detectors found in vehicles stopped for other reasons, be said, and stop cars that slow down rapidly after being detected by radar.
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"The way I look at it, next they're going to say you can't have a CB radio to see where the trooper is," Williams said, "and then
He said he thought most radar detector owners went a "healthy 65 to 70" mph on the highway.
"It could hurt if I can't sell these things," Williams said. "It could mean food off my table."
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Williams said he sold about 10 to 20 radar detectors a week, ranging in price from $70 to $250, depending on their sensitivity.
"I'm not condoning speeding, either. If you speed, and you go out there and get caught, that's tough."
HE SAID that if the bill passed, his store would lose $8 to 10 percent of its business.
Williams said officers would be able to spot detectors on dashes, but not ones located in the grill or in other less obvious places.
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