Description: Carmen Fields interviews three Northeastern journalism students on the coverage of the Persian Gulf war. Two students are impressed with the immediacy of the coverage provided by television (CNN and the networks), but the other thinks that it is "not as in-depth as it could get." Fields contrasts the commitment to "the people's right to know" of Watergate-era journalists with the students' views regarding the importance of censorship to protect national security and the lives of individual soldiers. The students also discuss the missing CBS news crew led by Bob Simon, and question the news team's decision to report in a war zone without a military escort.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/18/1991
Description: Panel of journalists at Kennedy School discuss political coverage. Walter Cronkite, Cokie Roberts, Bernard Shaw. Michael Dukakis bowling.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/16/1990
Description: Victim's father accuses Judge Harry Elam of partiality in light treatment of defendant, son of a colleague. New law would make judicial misconduct inquiries less secret. Florence Rubin, Susan Schur.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/29/1987
Description: Roanne Sragow, sworn in as district court judge, requested Alan Dershowitz as speaker at ceremony; Gov. Dukakis forbids his attendance because of feud with William Bulger. Bellotti tries to be diplomatic.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/28/1990
Description: Roxbury Juvenile Court Judge Gordon Martin explains protecting rights of underage defendant, a suspect in murder of Mark Belmore. Photo of victim, site of crime.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/30/1990
Description: Roxbury District Court judges wary of mandatory jail sentences as deterrent to illegal gun possession by juveniles. Bartley-Fox law. Courtroom. Courthouse exterior. Confiscated weapons. Judge Julian Houston.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/20/1989
Description: Chief justice of district courts Samuel Zoll and Ernest Winsor of Mass. Law Reform Institute discuss what should be done to discipline judges whose performance has deteriorated because of stress.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/01/1991
Description: 10% of state judges are women. SJC orders study of judicial gender bias. Justice Ruth Abrams. Inscribed courthouse legend "Justice for All."
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/05/1988
Description: Michael Dukakis nominates Bulger aide Paul Mahoney to district court judgeship. Joseph Langone, James O'Brien. Governor's Council voting on another candidate, Evelyn Murphy presides.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/14/1990
Description: Interview with Boston Health and Hospitals Commissioner Judith Kurland. Exteriors, corridors and signs at Boston City Hospital. Black baby in neonatal intensive care at BCH.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/08/1988