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IN THE MATTER OF PAUL PAPPAS

358 Mass. 604 (1971)

266 N.E.2d 297

IN THE MATTER OF PAUL PAPPAS.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

January 29, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Carey for Pappas.

Armand Fernandes, Jr., Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Lawrence J. McKay & Floyd Abrams, of New York, for National Broadcasting Company, Inc., Clarence J. Fried, of New York, for American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., and W. Theodore Pierson & J. Laurent Scharff, of Washington, D.C., for Radio Television News Directors Association, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Robert W. Meserve, for Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

James C. Heigham, for Massachusetts Newspaper Information Service, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: TAURO, C.J., SPALDING, CUTTER, SPIEGEL, REARDON, QUIRICO, & BRAUCHER, JJ.

CUTTER, J.

Pappas was employed by a New Bedford television station as a newsman-photographer. In late July, 1970, he was sent to New Bedford to photograph and report on "fires and other turmoil" related to civil disorder then in progress. He wished "to cover ... a Black Panther news conference" at a boarded up store, which he could not approach because of a barricade. He (about 3 P.M. on July 30) did photograph and record...

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