Promotional News Videos Gain Support
Date: 11 September 1989
By Randall Rothenberg
Randall Rothenberg
LEAD: WITH the aid of satellite technology, Capital Cities/ABC Inc. is set to lend its stamp of approval to one of the most debated features in television news: video news releases, promotional materials that often mimic the techniques and conventions of television news programs.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 11 September 1989
LEAD: International A3-12 East Germans can leave Hungary for West Germany, Budapest said. The announcement was a final chapter in a summerlong exodus through the new Hungarian gap in the Communist frontier. Page A1
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The New Romantics Paint the Past
Date: 10 September 1989
By Grace Glueck
Grace Glueck
LEAD: The younger generation of romantic landscape painters seem to be spending less and less time confronting nature in the raw. While struggling to produce a nonabstract painting vocabulary that works for today, they scramble ever more eagerly for motifs from the art of the past and assiduously incorporate - not without irony - sentiments and images borrowed from earlier eras.
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Ruling Could Alter Use Of Newspapers' Sources
Date: 10 September 1989
By Alex S. Jones
Alex Jones
LEAD: A Minnesota Court of Appeals ruling Tuesday that a reporter's promise of anonymity to a news source is an enforceable contract could reduce the use of unnamed sources by news organizations, according to some leading journalists and First Amendment experts.
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In the Sports Pages
Date: 11 September 1989
By Robert Mcg. Thomas Jr
Robert Mcg
LEAD: It should come as no surprise to anyone who followed the extensive coverage of the Pete Rose gambling scandal and his eventual banishment from baseball that there is now statistical evidence that news about sports, or at least baseball, is hard to find in the sports pages of the nation's newspapers.
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The Navy Scapegoats a Dead Seaman
Date: 11 September 1989
By C. Robert Zelnick
C. Zelnick
LEAD: Accused rapists, killers and drug dealers enjoy the presumption of innocence until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. But a young naval petty officer last week was branded a mass murderer on the basis of evidence that was only ''relevant, material and not overly redundant.''
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Kansas City Papers Study Merger
Date: 11 September 1989
Special to The New York Times
LEAD: The Kansas City Star Company is conducting a study to determine whether to merge its morning and afternoon newspapers.
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Murdoch Gambles on Satellite TV
Date: 11 September 1989
By Steve Lohr, Special To the New York Times
Steve Lohr
LEAD: In a rare public speech, Rupert Murdoch rose to the podium at the Edinburgh cultural festival two weeks ago to deliver a spirited defense of Sky Television, his biggest media gamble ever.
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