In their fight for the news, reporters have to battle a growing attitude on the part of state and local officers that public business is none of the public's business (TIME, May 5 et seq.). Last week North Carolina newsmen lost a round. When a vital Appropriations subcommittee, disregarding state law, denied them access to its budget hearings, capital reporters staged a sitdown in the hearing room.
To dodge the reporters, the stymied committee rented a hotel room, met secretly there. Reporters heard about it, crowded outside the locked door. Committee Co-Chairman J. William...
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