1989-03-24 Comments of Star Tribune.pdf - Minnesota Judicial Branch

Nancy Reid, reporter, KDLH-TV, Duluth, describing use of
the cameras in courts in Superior, Wisconsin
Reid Johnson, News Director, WCCO-TV, describing TV coverage
in the metropolitan.area
Mark Durenberger, Minneapolis and St. Paul, audio consultant,
describing the available audio equipment
John Finnegan, Executive Editor, St. Paul Dispatch and
Pioneer Press, speaking of the responsibility or editors
of the metropclitan papers
Chuck Bailey, Editor, Minneapolis Tribune, speaking of the
procedure and respons-' oility or newspaper editors
Clinton A. Schroeder, President, Minnesota State Bar Association,
giving the history of the Association's opposition to cameras
in the courtroom, describing the Association's concern about
the possible impact of cameras on witnesses and jurors and
setting forth his opinion th...z cameras be permitted as they
now are in the Supreme Court but not in the trial courts
Justice Jack G. Day, Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit,
Cleveland, Ohio, testifying as to his experience in opposi-
tion to the allowance of cameras in the courtroom
Rick Lewis, Station Manager, KSJM, a public broadcasting
station, describing the function of radio broadcast of trial
proceedings
Irving Fang, Professor, University of Minnesota, School of
Journalism and Mass Communication, describing the training
given by the University to journalism students, especially
those specializing in broadcasting
Dr. James L. Hoyt, Professor, University of Wisconsin, School
of Journalism and Mass Communication, testifying as to
experiments with mock trial. situations in favor of the
allowance of cameras in the courtroom
William Kobin, President, Twin Cities Public Broadcasting,
KTCA, Channel 2, emphasizing that cameras in the courtroom .
would edu_c_ate the public
Judge Edward D. Cowart, Associate Dean, National College of
the Judiciary, Reno, Nevada, formerly Chief Judge of the
Circuit Court of Dade County, Florida, testifying by telephone
interview about the background of the esperinent in Florida
in favor of allowing cameras in the courtroom