A delicate negotiation has been going on between representatives of the Justice Department's Community Relations Service and newspaper, radio, TV and police officials in twelve U.S. cities. The goal: to temper the tone of riot coverage, should the summer of 1967 prove long and explosively hot. In the past, radio and TV riot bulletins have attracted swarms of spectators to embroiled districts, complicating the job of the police. Newspaper headlines have often fanned flames of discontent.
The Justice Department has proposed voluntary guidelines modeled on a system used in Omaha. At the outbreak of a riot, police relay a...
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