We Take You Live
Date: 25 October 1998
By Eric Alterman
Eric Alterman
Eric Alterman reviews book Breaking News by Robert MacNeil (M)
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25th of October 1998 News
Ziņas, kas parādījās New York Times pirmajā lapā 1998. gada 25. oktobris
Media Talk; New Assignments Under Zuckerman
Date: 26 October 1998
By Alex Kuczynski
Alex Kuczynski
New York Post on Oct 23 reported that Fred Drasner, chief executive at The Daily News, is resigning as group publisher of three magazines owned by Mort Zuckerman--US News & World Report, The Atlantic Monthly and Fast Company; Zuckerman calls article 'total fabrication'; Drasner will continue as co-chairman of magazine group; Zuckerman will continue as chairman; Drasner will assume role of chief operating officer of Applied Graphics Technologies of which he is already chief executive, and of which Zuckerman is chairman of the board; Ira Ellenthal, who is associate publisher of The Daily News, will now hold title of chief executive of magazine group, replacing Drasner in day-to-day supervision of the magazine; photo (M)
Ideas & Trends: Giving Outrage a Face; Breaking a Taboo, Editors Turn to Images of Death
Date: 25 October 1998
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Increasingly, images of the dead are finding their way into print and onto television; reflexes that made graphic death a rarity in newspapers in generation after Vietnam War are being supplanted by willingness to use such images for their emotional impact; the larger the point to be made, the more willing editors have been to use visual horror to make that point; photos (M)
Deaths in Argentina Feed a Taste for Conspiracy
Date: 25 October 1998
By Clifford Krauss
Clifford Krauss
Argentines are treated to barrage of recent news coverage about suspicious deaths; deaths may simply be series of macabre concidences, but news reports have spawned vague suggestions lately that organized crime or Government of Pres Carlos Saul Menem itself is involved and blocking cause of justice; recent deaths of former presidential aide's brother and navy captain were officially attributed to suicide; list of other dead include general and another army officer who were killed in helicopter crash, two other Government and military employees who died in reported criminal assaults, and several more people who reportedly succumbed to heart attacks and brain seizures; even Pres Menem has called for reopening of probe into death of his son, thought to have been killed in helicopter accident three years ago; Menem's former wife has long expressed skepticism that crash was accident; photo (M)
Watson to Buy Theratech
Date: 26 October 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc to acquire Theratech Inc for $300 million in stock (S)
Opel Leader Resigns From G.M. Europe
Date: 26 October 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Hans Wilhelm Gaeb resigns as vice president of GM Europe and chairman of supervisory board of GM subsidiary Adam Opel AG (S)
Sex Advice for the Clinton Age
Date: 25 October 1998
Dorothy M Berger letter on Rebecca Johnson's Oct 4 article holds Government's and news media's response to Pres Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky are far more disturbing than affair itself (S)
Federal Budget: Of Pork and Policy
Date: 26 October 1998
Fred Gerber letter comments on lack of media limelight on passage of Federal budget (Oct 22 article)
NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 25 October 1998
INTERNATIONAL A3-19 U.S. Moves to Ward Off Financial Crisis in Brazil The United States is preparing to commit American funds as part of a $30 billion program to try to insulate Brazil and the rest of Latin America from the worst effects of world financial turmoil, according to officials assembling the program. Several Congressional leaders have been alerted to the likelihood that the Administration will have to act while Congress is in recess. 1 Anger at the Wye River Talks During the Thursday to Friday all-night stand at the Wye River Middle East conference before the accord was clinched, or almost clinched, President Clinton became so angry with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's treatment of Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, that Mr. Clinton slammed down his papers and angrily walked off exclaiming, ''This is despicable.'' 1
More Aviation News
Date: 25 October 1998
BY Claudia H. Deutsch
Claudia Deutsch
Fuji Photo Film USA president George Tanaka takes trip aboard company blimp from Westchester Airport to his home in Elmsford, NY (S)