Genafspiller søndag den 10. marts 1991

With News Talks Near Deadline, Contract Wording Is Revised

Date: 11 March 1991

By James Barron

James Barron

Negotiators for the unions at The Daily News and Robert Maxwell, the British publisher who wants to buy the strikebound newspaper, bargained all day yesterday and into today as they faced a 10 A.M. deadline set by Mr. Maxwell. George E. McDonald, the head of the Allied Printing Trades Council of Greater New York, a union umbrella group, said at 10 P.M. that several unions appeared to be close to a settlement, but he would not name the unions. Earlier in the day, the negotiators reworked wording that had threatened to derail the talks.

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It Takes People to Make a Strike: Tales of Fear and Courage at The News

Date: 10 March 1991

By Alan Finder

Alan Finder

It has all the elements of a great Daily News story -- violence, ambition, moral dilemmas and the struggle of common people. For the last 137 days, though, the story has been about the paper itself. The struggle over the future of The News, once the country's largest metropolitan daily, has been played out on a broad public stage before a bitterly divisive strike began on Oct. 25. But the protracted showdown between The News and its battle-scarred unions has obscured the private sagas of hundreds of News employees.

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3 Unions at The News Would Bear Brunt of Job Cuts, Leaders Say

Date: 10 March 1991

By Alan Finder

Alan Finder

As talks on the fate of The Daily News continued last night, union leaders negotiating with Robert Maxwell said that almost 700 of the 800 jobs the British publisher wants to eliminate would be from three large unions, the pressmen, the drivers and the Newspaper Guild. The proposal would reduce the number of pressmen at The News to about 200 from 400, the union leaders said. The drivers would lose 300 of 700 jobs, and the Guild, which represents newsroom, advertising and clerical employees, would lose about 180 from the current level of more than 700 workers.

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British Tycoon Tries Proven Tactics To Negotiate a Daily News Takeover

Date: 11 March 1991

By Steve Lohr

Steve Lohr

Robert Maxwell, the 67-year-old British entrepreneur, has a reputation for being as unpredictable as he is hyperactive. Guided by whim and instinct, he buys and sells businesses at a furious pace and runs through subordinates like paper clips. He once even dismissed one of his sons, Ian, for showing up late for a meeting. But there is a remarkable consistency to the recovery program that Mr. Maxwell wants to carry out at The Daily News; it seems almost a carbon copy of the formula he applied to the London mass-circulation tabloid The Daily Mirror in the mid-1980's.

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AFTER THE WAR: Captives; 40 Journalists and 2 G.I.'s Go Free After Week's Ordeal

Date: 10 March 1991

By Chris Hedges, Special To the New York Times

Chris Hedges

About 40 foreign journalists and 2 American soldiers held in Iraq for nearly a week arrived here today in a Red Cross caravan after their release on Friday by the authorities in Baghdad. The journalists, representing print and broadcast organizations from nine countries, were traveling toward Basra, the southern Iraqi city that has been torn by heavy fighting between Shiite Muslim rebels and Iraqi Army troops, when they were detained by Iraqi soldiers.

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Couch Potatoes, Aren't Dupes

Date: 11 March 1991

By Constance Penley and Andrew Ross

Constance Penley

As scholars of media and popular culture, we spend a good deal of our time resisting the widespread assumption that people are passive consumers of the mass media. The couch potato, is a myth. This myth is expedient for those with an interest in overestimating the media's power -- usually media professionals -- and for those whose job is to persuade clients and sponsors, commercial or political, that their messages can be delivered. For some, the popular response to the war in the gulf and its aftermath would seem to confirm the couch potato myth, resurrected in the form of the "war potato" (or "Scud spud"), haplessly transfixed by the "CNN effect" of the first video war.

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Corrections

Date: 10 March 1991

An article on Feb. 17 about the financial difficulties of Australian news organizations misinterpreted a comment of Gerard Henderson, executive director of the Sydney Institute, a research group. Mr. Henderson was suggesting that Australia's two most influential media billionaires, Rupert Murdoch and Kerry Packer, would be called "powerful mates" of the Government if foreigners were allowed to increase their media holdings; he did not make the criticism himself.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 10 March 1991

After the War 14-17 The U.S. said it would use air strikes to bomb any Iraqi military unit that uses chemical weapons to put down the rebellion in Iraq. American officials said Iraq had targeted two Shiite holy cities for attacks. Page 1

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 11 March 1991

AFTER THE WAR A8-11 President Bush's outline for peace was endorsed by Egypt, Syria and six other Arab countries. Officials said approval of the plan, which includes a continuing U.S. military presence, was a watershed event. Page A1 Four Israelis were stabbed to death in West Jerusalem by a 26-year-old Arab who told the police he was sending a message to Secretary of State Baker, who is to visit the country today to calm passions. A8

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INSIDE

Date: 10 March 1991

Violence in Yugoslavia Two people were killed and dozens injured when Serbian protesters seeking the ouster of their region's hardline leader clashed with police and army units in Belgrade. Page 3.

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