Genafspiller mandag den 5. april 1993

THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Television; Morning News Programs Draw the Young and Mobile

Date: 05 April 1993

By Bill Carter

Bill Carter

Even if viewers don't think that early-morning television qualifies as breakfast for their heads, they are clearly demonstrating a bigger hunger for it. Over the last year, the three network morning programs -- ABC's "Good Morning, America," NBC's "Today" and CBS's "This Morning" -- have all added viewers, and since the first of the year they have done particularly well.

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Times and Printers Reach Tentative Accord

Date: 06 April 1993

The New York Times said yesterday that it had reached a tentative agreement with the printers union, replacing a contract that expired on March 31. Within the last week, three other unions -- representing electricians, plumbers, photoengravers and lithographers -- ratified long-term contracts with the paper, said Nancy Nielsen, a Times spokeswoman. The latest agreement, with New York Typographical Union No. 6, is subject to ratification by its members. The union's president, James Grottola, could not be reached for comment.

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INSIDE

Date: 06 April 1993

Reactor Would Derive Power From Plutonium Russian and American experts have agreed to build a reactor that could burn plutonium from atomic weapons and use the fuel from discarded arms -- especially the stockpiles to be scrapped in the former Soviet Union -- to make electricity. Page A11. Peace Corps Aiding Russia In a Russian town once viewed as a potential nuclear target, Americans are teaching their former foes how to set up small businesses. Page A10. Ex-Premiers Warned in Italy In another jolt to their political system, Italians learned that Giulio Andreotti and Arnaldo Forlani both face a corruption inquiry. Page A3. Peru a Year Later A year after he seized power, President Alberto K. Fujimori was looking ahead to economic success and a firm grip on his country. Page A3. More Trouble for Leslie Fay Leslie Fay, the big clothing company, filed for bankruptcy protection after an accounting scandal. Page D1. New Tools to Fight Strokes Doctors are working on snapshots of strokes as they happen and drugs to treat them. Science Times, page C1.

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Investigative Reporters Win Goldsmith Prize

Date: 05 April 1993

Reporters at The Los Angeles Times and The Seattle Times have won the annual Goldsmith Prize for investigative journalism awarded by the Joan Shorenstein Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Douglas Frantz and Murray Waas of The Los Angeles Times were cited for a series that detailed United States policy toward Iraq before the Persian Gulf war. David Boardman, Susan Gilmore, Eric Nalder and Eric Pryne of The Seattle Times won for a series focusing on charges of sexual misconduct against former Senator Brock Adams, Democrat of Washington.

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Ireland's Troubled Sleep

Date: 05 April 1993

By Andrew O'Hehir

Andrew O'Hehir

Twenty thousand people thronged central Dublin two Sundays ago, calling on the Irish Republican Army to "Stop the Bloody Murder." They congregated in silence to hear Sinead O'Connor, the pop star who tore up a photo of the Pope on "Saturday Night Live," sing the Roman Catholic hymn, "Make Me a Channel of Your Peace." The rally made for compelling drama on TV news and on the front pages of American papers. But like many Irish-Americans, I was ambivalent. The media's fixation on the event reinforced misguided conventional wisdom about the Irish conflict. The rally represented a repudiation of the shadowy organization that claims to represent the Irish soul, that proclaims its legacy of bloodshed and martyrdom to be entwined with the deepest Irish sense of self.

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Girls Of Summer

Date: 05 April 1993

By Marie Brenner

Marie Brenner

Fourteen years ago, on another splendid opening day, I arrived in Boston as one of the first woman baseball columnists in the major leagues. Women had just been permitted in the clubhouse. Who could forget the brouhaha over getting us into that cherished inner sanctum: lawsuits had been joined, players had protested, players' wives had weighed in with their doubts and fears, columns and columns of overheated prose had been devoted to the debate. Women won, and I was hired to be the "female jockstrap," as the players called me. I was woefully naive, a baseball innocent, a novelty act dreamed up by the new editor of The Boston Herald-American, Don Forst, who was convinced a "Red Sox Diary" by a woman on the front page was a way to get his paper noticed. "Talk to the pitchers about their anxiety attacks, and talk to the wives about their loneliness, and see what the first baseman has to say about his life," he suggested. "But for God's sake, don't write about the game." Of course not. Everyone knew I was hired only to be the first skirt, to write the women's stuff.

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Poll Says Public Favors Changes In Health Policy

Date: 06 April 1993

By Robin Toner

Robin Toner

Fired by a sense of crisis, a majority of Americans say they are willing to accept substantial changes in their health-care system, including government price controls, new taxes and longer waits for nonemergency appointments, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll. They have high expectations for President Clinton's promised health-care plan, the poll found, and they consider changes in health care an issue at least as urgent as the Federal deficit, which is near the top of the public's agenda.

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Coke Selling Three Units To Bottler

Date: 06 April 1993

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

The Coca-Cola Company said today that it had agreed to sell three bottling companies, including its Dutch subsidiary, to its largest domestic bottler, Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc., for $360 million. Marking its first international foray, Coca-Cola Enterprises signed a nonbinding agreement to buy Coca-Cola Beverages Nederland B.V. The Atlanta-based bottler also agreed to buy the Roddy Coca-Cola Bottling Company and the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Johnson City, Tenn. Coca-Cola Enterprises, which is 44 percent owned by the Coca-Cola Company, has failed to produce consistent profits in its six-year history. Analysts said the growing international markets served by the Netherlands operation could provide a lift. 'Vehicle for Future Growth' Roy D. Burry, a Kidder, Peabody analyst, said the United States soft-drink market had slowed down and that the international market provided greater opportunity for growth.

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SOFTWARE PUBLISHING SHARES FALL SHARPLY ON FORECAST

Date: 06 April 1993

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

The Software Publishing Corporation's shares tumbled 33 percent yesterday, after the company said its fiscal second-quarter earnings and revenues would fall below expectations. After the market's close Friday, the maker of graphics and data base software said it expected to post earnings of 15 cents to 17 cents a share on revenues of $31 million to $33 million for its second quarter that ended on March 31. In the corresponding quarter last year, the company's net income was $4 million, or 32 cents a share, on revenues of $43.4 million.

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APPLE COMPUTER UPGRADES ITS SERVICE OPTIONS

Date: 06 April 1993

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Apple Computer Inc. upgraded its service options, including extending warranties on its entire line of personal computers and peripherals. Apple also said three of the nation's largest distributors, Ingram Micro Inc., Merisel Inc. and the Tech Data Corporation, would recruit other dealers to become authorized dealers of Apple peripherals.

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