Genafspiller tirsdag den 23. juli 1996

TV Notes;Emmy Nominations for News

Date: 23 July 1996

By Lawrie Mifflin

Lawrie Mifflin

Andrew Heyward, president of CBS News, had a hatful of announcements yesterday -- about political convention coverage, new assignments for producers and correspondents, and even the theme music for the new CBS morning show, written and sung by Carly Simon. Perhaps nothing made him happier, though, than announcing that CBS News had earned 19 nominations for 1995 News and Documentary Emmy awards. The 126 nominations, announced in New York by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, were culled from 1,288 entries, the most ever, said John Cannon, the academy's president.

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CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK;New and Familiar Faces In News Channel Debut

Date: 23 July 1996

By Walter Goodman

Walter Goodman

Surfing through the debut week of MSNBC, the new cable news channel ("The Revolution Begins Here"), I noticed no revolution, but found a potential rival to CNN, with special attention to the Internet generation. This 24-hour-a-day collaboration between NBC News and Microsoft invites E-mail questions to add to the call-in questions, the interviewers' questions and the panelists' comments that keep talk television babbling along. Thousands of Web residents are hastening to put in their two bytes' worth, but CNN has its own Internet address (as well as a much bigger audience), and old-fashioned computer-challenged viewers couldn't care less one way or the other. Switching on during the day, viewers may not immediately recognize whether they are patronizing CNN or MSNBC, the headlines, the chat and even some of the commercials being pretty much the same. The new service benefits from fresh faces at the anchor desks along with "the people you know," NBC News familiars like Gwen Ifill. The production is a dash more elaborate than CNN's; the reporting can be overemphatic; the panelists seem smarter, but that could change as they sink into their roles.

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In Egypt, On-Screen Sex Receives Mixed Reviews

Date: 23 July 1996

By Neil MacFarquhar

Neil MacFarquhar

In this summer's hit movie here, three working women from a poor Cairo neighborhood fret about their meager choice of marriageable louts. Aside from routine problems like bagging a longtime fiance seemingly allergic to commitment or warding off the boss's gropings, much of the plot of the movie, "Oh Life, You Are My Love," revolves around a shop clerk insisting that any man she marries must love her despite her lost virginity. When suitor after suitor flees, her friends convince her that some restorative surgery will fool all future mates.

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Swimming in a Media Pool

Date: 24 July 1996

By Timothy Jecko

Timothy Jecko

CHATHAM, N.J. In 1952, when I was 14 years old, I had just begun to swim for the Amateur Athletic Union team at the Walter Reed Army Hospital pool in Washington. That year, some of the women made the Olympic team, and one brought me a letter opener from Helsinki, Finland. It has "Suomi" inscribed on the handle; 11 summer Olympiads later, I keep it on my desk.

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Vermont Royster, 82, Pulitzer-Winning Editor

Date: 23 July 1996

By David Stout

David Stout

Vermont Royster, a former editor of The Wall Street Journal who won two Pulitzer Prizes and helped to shape his newspaper into the country's leading business daily, died yesterday in a retirement community in Raleigh, N.C., The Journal said. He was 82. The Journal said Mr. Royster had been in ill health for several years.

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Spanish Journalist Has Impartial Record

Date: 24 July 1996

To the Editor: I am surprised that you would entertain a letter (July 22) about my journalistic qualifications in response to your editorial, "A Chill in Spain," July 15. This editorial protested my dismissal from my post as the New York correspondent for Spanish Television after an uncomfortable interview with Spain's new Prime Minister, Jose Maria Aznar, a conservative.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 23 July 1996

International A3-8

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Journal;Cybernews Is No News

Date: 24 July 1996

By Frank Rich

Frank Rich

When the news first broke about T.W.A. flight 800, I did what any self-respecting American would do: glued myself to the TV. As a cable subscriber, I now had the added inducement of two all-disaster-all-the-time channels to surf between -- CNN and the spanking new MSNBC. Your cable box may not offer MSNBC yet, but surely you've seen the oppressively chic, laptop-laden promos. It's the future, it's the revolution, it's the Internet! Though MSNBC is the merger of network TV news and Microsoft, it was NBC's Brian Williams, not a Micronerd, who loomed on screen to fill air time with scanty information, dropped cues and droning experts. CNN's coverage followed the same old-fashioned TV tradition, except that its stiffly coiffed anchors seemed less human than the affable Mr. Williams. When the story is inexplicable mass death, a TV viewer wants company, not androids. On that irrational basis alone, I inclined toward MSNBC.

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News Summary

Date: 24 July 1996

International A3-12

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COMPANY NEWS;KEMET REJECTS VISHAY'S OFFER OF MERGER

Date: 23 July 1996

Bloomberg Business News

Bloomberg News

The Vishay Intertechnology Corporation said yesterday that the Kemet Corporation, a rival electronics maker, had rejected its offer to buy Kemet for $22 a share, or about $850 million. Shares of Kemet rose $1.375, to $17.75, in Nasdaq trading, while Vishay shares were unchanged at $18.875 on the New York Stock Exchange. Vishay, based in Malvern, Pa., has been pursuing Kemet, based in Greenville, S.C., since last month, when it suggested a friendly merger without specifying a price. Vishay is the largest American maker of passive electronic components including capacitors. Kemet is the largest American maker of capacitors.

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