News Corp. Sets Italian TV Deal
Date: 28 December 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Telecom Italia SpA agrees to sell up to 80 percent of its Stream pay-TV unit to News Corp for as much as $118.8 million (S)
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27th of December 1998 News
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Another Glum Portrait Of American Journalists
Date: 28 December 1998
By Alex Kuczynski
Alex Kuczynski
Survey by American Society of Newspaper Editors finds that Americans believe that journalists are too concerned with covering sex and are less concerned with accuracy, fairness and avoiding bias; respondents say journalists can be manipulated by people in powerful positions, that they do not consistently respect their readers and communities and that those journalists who do not slant their reporting to suit their own political beliefs are more likely to be Democrats (M)
TV Guide Investigates A Failed Investigation
Date: 28 December 1998
By Alex Kuczynski
Alex Kuczynski
TV Guide begins four-part, 20,000-word investigative series about CNN and its report last summer alleging that US used nerve gas against its own troops during Vietnam War (S)
Chief Wants To Take U.P.I. In a Direction Others Avoid
Date: 28 December 1998
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Arnaud de Borchgrave, new president and chief executive of United Press International, says he intends to take the news service 'upscale' and to cover critically important news that others are ignoring; voices disdain for coverage of scandals; UPI staff remains shellshocked by the short, pyrotechnic tenure of James Adams; de Borchgrave photo (M)
A NIGHT OUT AT: The White House; Christmas Cookies. Period.
Date: 27 December 1998
By Marian Burros
Marian Burros
Marion Burros article on disappointing White House Christmas Party, formerly exclusive and elegant event for press corps that was transformed this year into huge, casual, outdoor event (M)
After the Headlines; Fame, Fleeting Fame, Found These New Yorkers. Then What Happened?
Date: 27 December 1998
By Richard Weir
Richard Weir
Ordinary people who somehow made headlines in New York in recent years tell how their lives were affected by their instant and short-lived celebrity; among them are Harvey Weinstein, 'tuxedo man' who was held captive in cramped pit in Manhattan for 13 days, Keron Thomas, teen-ager who commandeered a subway train in Inwood, Frank Spangenberg, transit police officer from Queens who became a hit on Jeopardy, and Annette Sorensen, Danish actress who left her child in a stroller outside a Lower East Side restaurant while she died inside; photos (L)
On Christmas, It's A Terrible Rating
Date: 28 December 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
NBC, unable to air Knicks-Chicago Bulls game because of National Basketball Association lockout, instead airs movie classic It's A Wonderful Life, which posts 5.4 rating; last year's game earned 6.6 rating (S)
Revenue and Profit to Rise at DaimlerChrysler
Date: 28 December 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
DaimlerChrysler A.G., the world's fifth-largest auto maker, said today that its 1998 combined sales would rise significantly and that profit would exceed last year's figures of the combined Daimler-Benz A.G. and the Chrysler Corporation. Robust economies in the United States and Europe led to hefty sales. DaimlerChrysler said that 1998 sales would climb more than 13 percent to 260 billion marks -- now $154.4 billion -- from 229 billion marks and that profit would be ''significantly higher'' than Daimler and Chrysler's combined 1997 results. Daimler completed a $36 billion takeover of Chrysler in November.
NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 28 December 1998
INTERNATIONAL A3-16 Is Germ Warfare a Part Of New Russia's Future? Just as the Soviet Union was ending its confrontation with the West in the late 1980's, the military officers who ran Moscow's secretive germ warfare program ordered up new, much deadlier arms. The belated discovery of this secret research is one of the elements of a fierce dispute in Washington over whether the Russian military is heeding President Boris N. Yeltsin's 1992 order to abandon germ warfare. A1
NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 27 December 1998
INTERNATIONAL 3-14 Faulty Condoms Thwart African War on AIDS Some condom makers have been dumping their substandard wares in Africa, making the battle against AIDS all the more difficult. The problem has been particularly bad in South Africa, where, until last August, officials were using a flawed procurement system. 1