Media Talk; Slide Seen at NBC Nightly News
Date: 16 November 1998
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
ABC's evening newscast, World News Tonight, has interrupted top ratings of NBC's rival Nightly News over last five weeks; graph; photo (M)
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16th of November 1998 News
Haber New York Times'ın ön sayfasında 16 Kasım 1998 olarak çıktı
Pushing Harder for Access to Cuba
Date: 16 November 1998
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Dozen news organizations press to open news bureaus in Cuba despite general cutbacks in foreign news reporting; have gotten United States Government waivers, but only CNN and now Associated Press have won Cuban permission for permanent correspondent; photo (M)
South Africa's Press to Face Bias Inquiry
Date: 17 November 1998
By Suzanne Daley
Suzanne Daley
South Africa's Human Rights Commission says it will open probe into racism in press, using its powers of subpoena and arrest if needed; commission head, Barney Pityana, says probe is aimed at spurring debate about nature, meaning and incidence of racism he holds is endemic in nation; some editors see carefully timed effort to keep news organizations from criticizing Pres Nelson Mandela's Government on eve of national elections (M)
Two Depart at Fox and Universal After TV and Film Setbacks; Network Program Chief Had Scored Some Hits
Date: 17 November 1998
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
Peter Roth, head of programming for Fox television network, announces his resignation, saying he plans to start a production company; Fox, News Corp subsidiary, is expected to appoint Doug Herzog, president of cable channel Comedy Central, as its new head of programming; shift may reflect conclusion of broadcast networks that they need to change their approach to programming; Scott Sassa, recently named president of NBC's entertainment division, along with Herzog, built their careers at entertainment operations of cable networks; Fox's move was not entirely unexpected because the network started the television season in September with several weeks of disappointing ratings and was quickly forced to cancel four comedies; photos (M)
Compressed Data; Reporters Get the Story On Silicon Real Estate
Date: 16 November 1998
By John Markoff
John Markoff
John Chambers of Cisco Systems and Larry Ellison of Oracle, in what could be new trend among computer industry chiefs, have both invited reporters to their homes for private social events in last two weeks (M)
Judge Restrains Union at Post From Slowing Publication
Date: 17 November 1998
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Federal Judge John G Koeltl, less than day after pressmen's job action kept four out of five copies of yesterday's New York Post from homes and newsstands, issues temporary restraining order barring union representing pressmen from further interrupting publication of paper (M)
From the Brink to the Blink: Washington's Iraq Weekend
Date: 17 November 1998
By Tim Weiner and Philip Shenon
Tim Weiner
Reconstruction of weekend's events based on interviews with several participants indicates Pres Clinton called off missile attack on Iraq only minutes before it was set to begin on advice of national security adviser Samuel R Berger; Berger apparently responded to CNN report that Iraqis sent letter to United Nations agreeing to let arms inspectors resume work; Defense Sec William S Cohen apparently opposed delaying attack, holding Iraqi letter was too late and too confused; aides to State Sec Madeleine K Albright, who was en route to Asian economic summit conference, said she wanted attack to proceed; photo (M)
Media Talk; An Endorsement That Wasn't
Date: 16 November 1998
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Publisher Peter Ridder spurred dispute at Charlotte, NC, Observer with his bid to endorse Sen Lauch Faircloth for re-election over opposition of top editors, all editorial writers, and over 40 journalists, who favored Democratic candidate and eventual victor, John Edwards; newspaper's decision not to endorse candidate generated strongly-worded round-robin open letter from editors and reporters (M)
National News Briefs; Federal Express to Begin Picketing in Labor Talks
Date: 16 November 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Pilots union at Federal Express will begin informational picketing on Nov 16 as pilots move toward possible holiday-season strike against world's largest air-freight company (S)
ALLMERICA RAISES OFFER FOR REST OF CITIZENS CORP.
Date: 17 November 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Allmerica Financial Corp, an insurance and financial services company, to pay $195.9 million for the 16.8 percent of the Citizens Corp that it does not already own; both companies are based in Worcester, Mass (S)