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MOSCOW TRIALS ANTHOLOGY

By Martin Zarrop

Workers Press no. 157, 7 May 1970 · scan pages 3, 4

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admission to the Labour and Industrial Correspondents' Group. He is seen with engineering union official Ernie Roberts outside last year's Labour Party conference.

"The technique of lobby journalism,' the rules say,' can be fully acquired only by experience. It is a technique which brings the journalist into close contact with Ministers and Members of Parliament of all parties, and imposes on him a very high standard of responsibility and discretion in making use of the special facilities given him for wniting about political affairs.' The first rule in the book is spelled out under the heading 'individual lobbying':

'Over a period of 75 years the lobby has been under an obligation not to name informants. Moreover experience has shown that Ministers and MPs talk more freely under the rule of anonymity. ... It is the lobby correspondent's primary duty to protect his informants, and care must be taken not to reveal anything that might lead to their identification. Available from NEW PARK PUBLICATI London, S. W.4 Clapham High Street Price 12s. 6d.

Above: Pictures taken at intervals of 9, 19 and 38 minutes show the growth of a cloud seeded with silver iodide particles. May 7, 1970 PAGE

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