For Rather, Technology Has Drawbacks, Too
Date: 11 March 1996
By Lawrie Mifflin
Lawrie Mifflin
On March 9, 1981, the night Dan Rather replaced Walter Cronkite as the anchor of "CBS Evening News," the camera showed Mr. Rather from the waist up, with nothing behind him but a blank dove-gray backdrop. On his 15th anniversary broadcast Friday night, Mr. Rather sat enthroned at a semicircular mahogany desk the size of a small yacht, bedecked with a blue-suede top; behind him CBS producers busily worked the phones, with a solid wall of flashing television monitors as their backdrop.
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MEDIA: PRESS;In increasing numbers, critics get an early start in their analysis of campaign reporting.
Date: 11 March 1996
By Iver Peterson
Iver Peterson
PEOPLE who complain that Presidential campaigns start earlier and earlier can at least take heart from this: the political news media, who are partly responsible for the endless campaign, are also coming under the critical scrutiny of foundations and academics earlier in the race than ever before. For one thing, primaries are bunched together earlier this time around. For another, prominent journalists had themselves signaled during the last Presidential race that campaign coverage should be more issue-driven and less preoccupied with horse-race reporting and campaign personalties.
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Polk Awards Are Announced For Excellence in Journalism
Date: 11 March 1996
By Lawrence Van Gelder
Lawrence Gelder
Reporters for The New York Times have won 2 of the 12 George Polk Awards for excellence in journalism in 1995, capturing the prizes for metropolitan reporting and business writing. The winners were announced by Long Island University, which administers the awards.
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POLITICS: THE PROBABLE OPPONENTS;In Many Ways, Probable Foes Are Peas in Pod
Date: 11 March 1996
By Richard L. Berke
Richard Berke
Nearly three years ago, President Clinton and Senator Bob Dole and their wives broke bread at a festive, bipartisan dinner at Duke Zeibert's, a favorite restaurant of the powerful that was five blocks from the White House. "I thought they ought to know each other better in a social setting," said Robert S. Strauss, a confidant of Democratic and Republican Presidents who arranged the dinner for his two friends. "They got along fine. And they've each been able to maintain a civility in their contact."
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A Lifetime in the News
Date: 10 March 1996
By Ruth Bayard Smith
Ruth Smith
EVENTS LEADING UP TO MY DEATH The Life of a Twentieth-Century Reporter. By Howard K. Smith. Illustrated. 419 pp. New York: A Thomas Dunne Book/St. Martin's Press. $24.95.
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March 3-9;For Stocks, Good News Is Bad
Date: 10 March 1996
By Hubert B. Herring
Hubert
What's up? Doesn't the stock market want Americans to have jobs? Well, up to a point. What it truly wants is people getting jobs, but not too fast. Otherwise, demon inflation might rear its ugly head. And companies will have to pay more to borrow money.
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World News Briefs;Guerrillas in Lebanon Renew Attacks on Israelis
Date: 11 March 1996
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Party of God guerrillas carried out a wave of bomb and rocket attacks on Israeli troops in southern Lebanon today, killing at least one soldier and wounding five others, security officials and the Israeli military said. In one incident, the security officials said, two soldiers were killed and four were wounded when a remote-controlled bomb exploded on a roadside near an Israeli patrol in the village of Kfar Kila, 500 yards from the Israeli border. An Israeli military communique about the incident acknowledged only one death and said four soldiers were wounded.
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World News Briefs;Surprise U.N. Inspections After a Standoff in Iraq
Date: 11 March 1996
AP
United Nations weapons experts made surprise inspections at two Iraqi sites today in a search of information on banned weapons of mass destruction. A United Nations official said the Iraqis were "fully cooperating," after a search on Saturday that began only after an 18-hour standoff. United Nations officials said they feared that Iraq had used the delay to remove incriminating materials.
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