Genafspiller søndag den 31. januar 1993

Stop the Presses! Movies Blast Media. Viewers Cheer.

Date: 31 January 1993

By Glenn Garelik

Glenn Garelik

When the presidential candidates accused "the media" of maltreatment, they had good reason to expect a certain amount of sympathy. All one has to do is go to the movies -- or switch on the television -- to recognize what Americans think of those who purvey the news. A decade and a half after Alan J. Pakula's "All the President's Men" lionized the Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein for their dogged pursuit of the Watergate story, movies and television are disgorging a generation of fictional journalists whose flaws far outweigh their meager virtues. The message of recent movies like "Hero" and "Bob Roberts" and television series like "Murphy Brown," "Love and War" and "Hearts Afire" is that journalists are not the grass-roots crusaders they used to be -- that "the media," in fact, have become a single, monolithic institution, an aristocratic fortress whose highborn members are not simply aloof: they eat the common people for dinner. The old-time press stood up for the "little guy"; the "media" are likely to exploit him.

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On Sunday; Uphill Fight: Raking Muck On Campus

Date: 31 January 1993

By Michael Winerip

Michael Winerip

ERIC COPPOLINO, stringer for the weekly Huguenot Herald, was busy doing freelance investigative reporting on PCB's. "I wouldn't walk in that mud," he advised, rushing around the state university here. Everywhere, students were happily and calmly traipsing by. "Could be PCB's. You never know." At Scudder dormitory, where decontamination crews have been working a year, he took pictures of spools of wire. Workers looked mystified. "Seems boring," he said. "But when you study the pictures over time, you see changes." Outside Parker Theater, he stepped on a manhole cover and got excited. "Test well No. 1! That's where it is. I've never had a story before where you could walk around and find clues."

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After Just 11 Days, TV Issues Verdict on Clinton

Date: 31 January 1993

By Elizabeth Kolbert

Elizabeth Kolbert

If all honeymoons were like this, heart-shaped pools might never have been invented. Just 10 days ago, Bill Clinton took the oath of office in a warm, exuberant burst of television coverage complete with blue skies, fluttering flags and gauzy shots of the Capitol dome. But no sooner had the President hung up his formal wear than the glow of the inauguration gave way to cold assessments of his first 100 hours.

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Iran's Leader Challenges U.S. And Talks of Re-election Bid

Date: 01 February 1993

President Hashemi Rafsanjani confirmed today that he was ready to run for a second term in June and warned the Clinton Administration in unusually dismissive terms that it was up to Washington to improve relations with his country. At a rare news conference to which more than 70 foreign journalists were invited, Mr. Rafsanjani accused the United States of a bias against Muslims and urged the Clinton Administration to release Iranian assets that have been frozen since the country's Islamic revolution in 1979.

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Ads Down, Los Angeles Times Again Cuts Staff

Date: 01 February 1993

By Calvin Sims

Calvin Sims

Under pressure to cut costs amid a severe advertising slump, The Los Angeles Times is carrying out a voluntary buyout program, its second in 18 months. The program will trim the staff by 9 percent, but also strip The Times, the nation's largest metropolitan daily newspaper, of some of its most respected reporters. The paper, flagship of the Times Mirror Company, announced on Thursday that 668 of its 7,500 employees had accepted the buyout, which is considered generous. It provides as much as two years' salary and 18 months of medical benefits for employees and their dependents.

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Doubts Arise On Finances Of Prospect In Post Sale

Date: 01 February 1993

By Diana B. Henriques

Diana

To his fans, Steven Hoffenberg is a successful entrepreneur willing to use his muscle and money to rescue the faltering New York Post. To his critics, he is a combative loner who pushes the rules of business to the limits. One thing that no one so far has challenged is that Mr. Hoffenberg is an exceedingly wealthy man.

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Abroad at Home; Not a Rose Garden

Date: 01 February 1993

By Anthony Lewis

Anthony Lewis

After the election, Republicans charged that the press was biased against George Bush. A conservative think tank produced a solemn report to the same effect. Well, ladies and gentlemen, look at the press now and think again. Reporters and commentators are savaging Bill Clinton. They are doing what comes naturally to a free press: criticizing those in authority.

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Fly Me to the Zone

Date: 31 January 1993

By William Safire

William Safire

WHO BAKED THE NO-FLY pie? At the end of Desert Storm, Saddam Hussein was denied the right to send Iraq's aircraft into the areas over the embryonic Kurdistan above the 36th parallel, or to threaten rebellious Shiites below the 32d parallel. Those areas were promptly dubbed no-fly zones by anonymous speakers of Pentagonese, and the curious locution was picked up -- uncritically at first -- by the media.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 31 January 1993

International 3-15 BOSNIA TALKS SET FOR NEW YORK

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 01 February 1993

International A2-10 FLIGHT OF CAPITAL FROM RUSSIA From nickel to guns, oil to cash, Russia has become a paradise for people looking for ways to profit from its considerable natural wealth. With ill-defined borders, easily evaded taxes and rampant inflation, many state industries and new entrepreneurs are taking the money and running. A1

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