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This article examines how specialized business magazine Editor & Publisher framed its coverage of the sex amendment of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the legal foundation for the elimination of the help-wanted classified advertising categorized by sex. It charts the evolution of the coverage of its initial 1964 enactment to 1973 when the Supreme Court found commercial speech was not covered under the First Amendment and that laws prohibiting classified ads categorized by sex were constitutional. The article finds three stages in Editor & Publisher's coverage: 1964 to 1967, 1967 to 1970, and 1971 to 1973. In each of these phases, the sex amendment of Title VII was framed as being counter to the fundamental principles of the newspaper industry and the First Amendment. The sex amendment and its women supporters were trivialized and delegitimized in the frames crafted by Editor & Publisher.

This study examines President Harry Truman's executive order that extended a classification system to cover civilian agencies, along with press resistance to that move. In Truman's view, classification was needed to protect national security in the face of growing Communism. But the press argued the order would lead to suppression of legitimate news and that there was no avenue of appeal from classification decisions. This research finds that, in 1987 alone, nearly seven thousand classifiers made more than two million classification decisions, many against allowing openness. Concerns raised during the Truman administration have proven justified.

This study examines the role new technology is playing in the writer/editor relationship. The study is based on responses to a mail questionnaire sent to a sample of consumer and specialized business editors. Editors reported that the new technology is affecting their relationship with writers and that free-lancers are less apt to use expensive new technology than staff writers. The magazine industry - especially the consumer segment - is moving toward the "virtual workplace." Authors speculate about the possibility of free-lancers becoming a "technological underclass."