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Date: 11 July 2004
By Andrew Kohut
Andrew Kohut
Pew Research Center for People and Press director Andrew Kohut article notes that recent Pew survey showed that American news consumers are increasingly politicized in their choices of media sources, and that their party loyalties also tend to dictate their trust in some news sources over others; graphs; photo (M)
Date: 12 July 2004
By Mark Glassman
Mark Glassman
News Corp president and chief operating officer Peter Chernin and executive vice president Gary L Ginsberg have made contributions to John Kerry, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee; company employees and their families have given almost $350,000 in campaign contributions as of June 1, 60 percent of which went to Democrats; at least four executives of company's Fox Network have contributed to Kerry's campaign; Fox cable channel has developed reputation, which it denies, as right-leaning news organization; photo (M)
Date: 12 July 2004
INTERNATIONAL A3-11 Afghan Leader Calls Militias Biggest Threat President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan said that private armies loyal to warlords were now greater threats than the Taliban insurgency and that they were at least partly responsible for the delay in parliamentary elections. Mr. Karzai also said he was abandoning his gentle approach in trying to pressure the country's private armies to disarm. A1 Three U.S. Soldiers Killed Three American soldiers were killed in attacks in Iraq, two by a roadside bomb near Samarra and one by a separate roadside bomb. A10
Date: 11 July 2004
INTERNATIONAL 3-12 Hussein's Military Capabilities The Senate's report on prewar intelligence about Iraq reported that Saddam Hussein's military had weakened under economic sanctions and American military pressure, undermining a justification for the war. 1 White House officials and Congressional leaders say the political calendar and continuing arguments about what needs to be fixed at the C.I.A. will prevent any serious action until after the November elections. 10
Date: 12 July 2004
By Jacques Steinberg
Jacques Steinberg
Will Ferrell crashes set of CNBC show Power Lunch with John McEnroe and camera crew from McEnroe's new CNBC talk show to promote his movie Anchorman and his appearance on first installment of McEnroe's show; repeatedly kisses anchorwoman Sue Herera, who later stresses in interview that she is happily married; CNBC shows clip of event through rest of day, and McEnroe uses it to open his show, McEnroe, which attracts bigger-than-usual audience in that time slot; CNBC defends moment of lightheartedness in many hours of business programming; photo (M)
Date: 11 July 2004
By Patrick McGeehan
Patrick McGeehan
Article on upcoming sex discrimination trial against Morgan Stanley; says question before court will be whether Morgan Stanley treated women in its institutional equities division unfairly, even as some of them took home annual bonuses of more than $1 million; court documents show Allison K Schieffelin could seek more than $50 million in lost earnings; photo (M)y
Date: 11 July 2004
By Jeff Sommer
Jeff Sommer
Down performance of key stock mB
Date: 11 July 2004
By Robert S. Boynton
Robert Boynton
Robert S Boynton article on making of Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism by Robert Greenwald; documentary illustrates how Fox News, as Greenwald sees it, distorts its coverage to serve conservative political agenda of Murdoch; movie was made largely in secret and features interviews with former Fox employees, leaked policy memos by Fox executives and extensive footage from Fox News; Greenwald career highlights traced; photo (L)
Date: 11 July 2004
By David Rohde
David Rohde
Jonathan Keith Idema and two other Americans are arrested and accused of running vigilante antiterrorism campaign in Kabul; Idema arrived in Kabul in fall of 2001, presented himself as former Army Special Forces soldier and implied he was working for CIA; Idema and others are charged with illegally imprisoning at least eight innocent Afghan men; Idema has issued press releases touting group's exploits, sat for interviews and helped write book The Hunt for bin Laden; his goal seems to have been to get US intelligence agencies to take him seriously; Idema's checkered past described; photo (M)
Date: 12 July 2004
By William Safire
William Safire
William Safire Op-Ed column says there are at least eight official investigations into largest financial rip-off in history: estimated $10 billion skimmed or kicked back or otherwise stolen in United Nations dealings with Saddam Hussein in food-for-oil program; says Secretary General Kofi Annan, seeking to manage news of scandal, has appointed Paul Volcker to head internal probe, but without subpoena power or ability to take testimony under oath; says State Dept is stalling Congressional requests for documents that reveal its own poor oversight and that embarass UN; notes that in Baghdad, investigation by old Governing Council was stopped by Paul Bremer because its leaks alerted world and upset UN; says bankers, traders and honest UN underlings are eager to whistleblow; says it will only take some shoe-leather reporting to prod investigators (M)