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Article: CNN late last week launched an initiative to try and reverse the Senate's decision to put some of its impeachment hearings behind closed doors.(Brief Article)
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- Broadcasting & Cable
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- February 1, 1999
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CNN late last week launched an initiative to try and reverse the Senate's decision to put some of its impeachment hearings behind closed doors. In full page ads in major newspapers and in a motion filed with the Senate, the network cited the First Amendment values of open government and said that deliberations behind closed doors regarding the treatment of witnesses and dismissal of the charges against President Clinton denies people throughout the world the opportunity to judge the fairness of the proceedings and excludes firsthand information from being made available to the millions of voters who have a vital stake in the trial's outcome.'The national apathy may be the ...
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