When Competition Influences Judgment
Date: 19 June 2000
By Jayson Blair
Jayson Blair
Failure of New York Post and five news programs to blur faces of women shown stripped by marauding group of men in Central Park, New York City, shows how competitive heat can overtake news organizations in 24-hour news cycle and how questionable ethical decision made by one outlet can influence others; decision to run identifiable images despite policies by most news organizations that greatly limit identification of sexual assault victims has led to debate in some newsrooms and angered women's rights groups; most television stations responded to complaints by pulling unaltered pictures and Post apologized; photo (M)
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Gore's 'Prosperity' Tour Is Off to a Rocky Start
Date: 19 June 2000
By Peter Marks
Peter Marks
Democratic presidential candidate Vice Pres Al Gore's weeklong 'prosperity' tour to revive flagging campaign by reminding voters of Clinton administration's economic record is off to rocky start, mainly because of lack of media interest (Political Memo); photos (M)
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Help Wanted: Journalism Icon
Date: 18 June 2000
By Julie Dunn
Julie Dunn
United Press International posts Helen Thomas's former job, senior White House correspondent, on George Giokas's Staffwriters.com Web site for journalism jobs; Thomas left UPI the day after it was sold to company founded by Rev Sun Myung Moon; photo (M)
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New-Media Threat From the 1930's
Date: 19 June 2000
David Nasaw's new biography of William Randolph Hearst holds he complained in 1930 that newspaper executives were responding too slowly to competitive threat from radio; photo (S)
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The World; If You Want Opposition, Just Crush an Opponent
Date: 18 June 2000
By Celestine Bohlen
Celestine Bohlen
Russian Pres Vladimir Putin may have succeeded in stirring up some real political opposition with arrest of media mogul Vladimir Gusinsky; politicians, journalists and Gusinsky's fellow 'oligarchs' condemned arrest; photo (M)
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Lone Voice No Longer, a Japanese Gadfly Catches On
Date: 18 June 2000
By Howard W. French
Howard French
Zensaku Sakurai, sidewalk crusader who berates Japan's leaders for what he calls their arrogance and corruption, is attracting more listeners in country where direct criticism of others strikes uncomfortable chord; Sakurai's movement is most successful of several grass-roots movements that are catching fire; members of governing party and its coalition partners, already on defensive as hotly contested national elections draw near, call such movements undemocratic and appeal to national media not to report about them; Sakurai has long railed against government; how his movement has gained steam, finally, is illustration of unpredictable nature of political cross-fertilization brought about by technology, particularly Internet (M)
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For Fed Rate Increases, A Pause That's Expected
Date: 18 June 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Bond dealers who last month expected Federal Reserve to raise interest rates again in June no longer expect rate increase this month; turnaround hinges on employment and retail-sales reports that suggest Fed's six interest-rate increases in last year may be slowing economic growth; many still expect rate increase in August; graph (M)
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New Intel Product to Aid Pentium III Chips
Date: 19 June 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Intel Corp to introduce new chip set, group of chips that supports and works with personal computer processor, to enable its latest Pentium III chips to work with faster memory products (S)
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Dresdner Bank and Commerzbank in Talks
Date: 19 June 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Dresdner Bank AG chief executive Bernd Fahrholz and Commerzbank AG chief executive Martin Kohlhaussen meet to discuss possible merger; Cobra, fund fun by former Dresdner aide Hansgeorg Hofmann has amassed 17 percent of Commerzbank (M)
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ING Says Aetna Rejects an Offer
Date: 19 June 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
ING Groep NV says Aetna Inc has rejected its bid for Aetna's financial-services and international units; says it will continue talks (M)
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