Murdoch-MCI Efforts Under Growing Strain
Date: 02 November 1996
By Geraldine Fabrikant
Geraldine Fabrikant
MCI's two alliances with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp appear to be coming unraveled as MCA solidifies merger with British Telecommunications; MCI reportedly negotiates to limit its investment in News Corp to the $1.35 billion it has put up so far, which is less than $2-billion cash infusion promised in 1995; second alliance is supposed to be American Sky Broadcasting, consumer satellite service; both plans may have been swept to side by long complex negotiations with British Telecom (S)
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Don't Ask, Don't Print
Date: 03 November 1996
By Abe Peck
Abe Peck
Abe Peck reviews book Straight News: Gays, Lesbians, and the News Media by Edward Alwood (L)u
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Channel Crossing
Date: 02 November 1996
By Andrew Postman
Andrew Postman
Andrew Postman's satirical comment on combining some of many cable television channels that already exist as solution to Ted Turner-Gerald Levin lockout of Fox News Channel (L)
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A 'Conservative' Is (Fill in the Blank)
Date: 03 November 1996
By Marjorie Connelly
Marjorie Connelly
New York Times/CBS News Poll finds voters most often describe political liberal as 'open-minded' and 'free spending' and conservative as 'fiscally responsible or tight' and 'closed-minded;' graphs; photos (M)
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To Pry or Not to Pry?
Date: 03 November 1996
By Max Frankel
Max Frankel
Max Frankel article discusses media prying into politicians' private lives; drawing (M)
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'President McKinley's Paper' Evolves, and So Do Its Political Endorsements
Date: 02 November 1996
By Michael Winerip
Michael Winerip
Article in yearlong series exploring forces shaping political debate at grass roots, in Canton, Ohio (An American Place); examines thinking of editorial board at Canton's newspaper, The Repository, which in 177 years had never endorsed a Democrat for President until it backed Bill Clinton in 1992, and agonized about whether to do so again in 1996; photo (L)
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A Cool Head At the Eye Of the Calm
Date: 03 November 1996
By Walter Goodman
Walter Goodman
Walter Goodman comment lauds News Hour television program under leadership of Jim Lehrer; photo (M)
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U.S. ROBOTICS TO DISMISS AS MANY AS 600 WORKERS
Date: 02 November 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
US Robotics Corp to dismiss as many as 600 workers to cut costs, after doubling work force last year (S)
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ALLEGIANCE TO TAKE $550 MILLION EARNINGS CHARGE
Date: 02 November 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Allegiance Corp to take $550-million charge in fourth quarter, its first quarter as independent company, because of accounting change; Allegiance was spun off by Baxter International (S)
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HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES IN $134.1 MILLION ACQUISITION
Date: 02 November 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Huntington Bancshares will pay about $134.1 million in stock and cash to acquire Citi-Bancshares Inc (S)
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