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6th of August 2000 News
Ziņas, kas parādījās New York Times pirmajā lapā 2000. gada 6. augusts
Opting for Hometown Angle At a Slow-News Convention
Date: 06 August 2000
By Peter Marks
Peter Marks
Republican national convention officials in Philadelphia try to satisfy needs of local electronic news media to a degree unmatched by previous party gatherings; using battalion of bookers, Republicans put 200 Bush surrogates at disposal of radio stations, Web sites and especially local television outlets; they provide free satellite time to stations that did not book their own, and concentrate heavily on contacting outlets in markets in crucial states like Florida, Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Michigan; photo of Elizabeth Dole (M)
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Giving Online Audiences News They Want
Date: 07 August 2000
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
New Web sites offer users television-style news reports in digestible bits that can be pieced together into personalized newscasts; are based on assumptions that consumers want information and entertainment on demand and that high-speed Internet connections, offered by broadband services, can finally give it to them; Yahoo, Zatso.com and Jagfn.com offer services, but the most ambitious is FeedRoom, which Jonathan Klein is setting up with $35 million in venture capital; photo (M)
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Compressed Data; A News Service Caters To Nonprofit Groups
Date: 07 August 2000
By Matt Richtel
Matt Richtel
AScribe will disseminate online news releases of universities, nonprofit organizations and foundations for $10 or $20, depending on subscription plan; news release services used by corporate America charge several hundred dollars to distribute a release (S)
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Friends Find News Media Ignoring a Funny, Charming Guy Named Al
Date: 06 August 2000
By Melinda Henneberger
Melinda Henneberger
Friends of Vice Pres Al Gore, such as actor Tommy Lee Jones, his Harvard classmate, express irritation at what they see as hostile press coverage of Gore, contending media ignores reality that Gore is a funny, warm, thoughtful and decent person--not the 'stiff' person frequently portrayed in press (M)
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Lewinsky Interview Did Have Its Costs
Date: 07 August 2000
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
New Yorker magazine reports that Monica Lewinsky gave her interview to Barbara Walters on ABC in Nov 1998 after network paid Theodore Olson, a Washington lawyer and friend of Kenneth W Starr, whose permission was needed for any Lewinsky interviews under terms of her immunity agreement; David Westin, ABC News president, says arrangement did not violate network's policy against paying for interviews; photo (S)
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CNN.com Restores Jerusalem to Israel
Date: 07 August 2000
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
Jerusalem is once again identified as an Israeli city on weather home page of CNN.com; it has stood on its own since February, prompting flood of protests (S)
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A Forum for Media Feedback and Back Talk
Date: 07 August 2000
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Jim Romenesko's MediaNews.org is a Web site where journalists can argue, announce their new jobs, toast their friends and denounce their enemies; Eugene Kennedy gets a lot of supportive comment for an article of his on the site that contends that Mike Barnicle, who lost his job as columnist at Boston Globe in 1998, was victim of shifting standards and deeply mixed messages from the Globe's editor, Matthew V Storin; photos (M)
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IRAN LEADER BARS A BILL RESTORING FREEDOM OF PRESS
Date: 07 August 2000
By Nazila Fathi
Nazila Fathi
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme religious leader, quashes cherished goal of Pres Mohammad Khatami and reformists by ordering Parliament to scrap bill aimed at restoring free press; takes exceptional action of circumventing normal institutional checks on legislative power; surprise move stuns reformers who had hoped to use newly won strength in Parliament to revive once vigorous liberal press; proposed law to deregulate press was centerpiece of Khatami's package for new Parliament, and was meant to counter conservative crackdown of last six months, when courts closed nearly every reformist newspaper and jailed editors and intellectuals; photo (M)
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Buyout Fund Will Purchase McKechnie
Date: 07 August 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Cinven Group, a London-based buyout fund, agrees to buy McKechnie PLC, a British manufacturer of military and auto products, for 434 million pounds, or $654 million, in cash; McKechnie expects earnings to be below market expectations (S)
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 06 August 2000
INTERNATIONAL 3-10 Former Soviet Jews Find Uneasy Home in Germany Germany's Jewish population has surpassed 100,000 for the first time since Hitler dispersed and destroyed a prewar community of over 500,000 Jews. At least 5,000 Jews pour in a year, supported by annual state payments, even as German impatience with Holocaust-induced obligations is rising. 1
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