Reluare duminică, 7 februarie 1993

JAN. 31-FEB. 6: Tabloid City; News Raids Post! Post Is Shocked! And So On!

Date: 07 February 1993

By Ralph Blumenthal

Ralph Blumenthal

"It's War!" So thundered The New York Post last week in outrage over the body-snatching of its top editorial team by The Daily News, its archrival in the New York City tabloid punch-out. When the Post's editor and headline whiz, Lou Colasuonno, along with its managing editor and metropolitan editor and the columnist Mike McAlary bolted for The News, the Post's new buyer, Steven Hoffenberg, branded the new owner of The News, Mortimer B. Zuckerman, "a vulture" bent on "gunning down" the competition. Mr. Zuckerman, a real estate developer and magazine publisher, denied any malign intent and portrayed his recruiting as a tribute to The Post. To stem The Post's talent hemorrhage -- which by later in the week included a second columnist and a gossip writer -- Mr. Hoffenberg fired back with a lawsuit that disclosed that Mr. McAlary was already being paid $275,000 a year by The Post with a $25,000 raise in store, hardly a reason to quit.

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Press Notes

Date: 08 February 1993

By William Glaberson

William Glaberson

STEVEN HOFFENBERG, who wants to buy The New York Post, is the latest in a long line of successful businessmen to be seduced by the idea of becoming a newspaper publisher. Right away, he proved that it's not as easy as it looks. There were gasps all around when he used his first few interviews to declare an end to negative news stories.

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On Sunday; Goodbye Line May Be Next For Serby

Date: 07 February 1993

By Michael Winerip

Michael Winerip

AFTER two weeks away covering the Super Bowl, the veteran sportswriter Steve Serby walked into The New York Post on Thursday and was kissed by the phone operator, hugged by a printer, slapped on the back by a guy in the men's room and asked the same question by all: "You leaving Serby?" "Everyone's asking," says Serby. And Serby isn't saying.

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French TV Anchorman Is Indicted

Date: 07 February 1993

By Alan Riding

Alan Riding

France's best-known television anchorman, Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, was indicted on Friday on a charge related to his acceptance of expense-paid trips from a Lyons businessman who is currently in jail awaiting trial for misuse of public funds. Mr. Poivre d'Arvor, who presents the evening news on France's most popular channel, TF1, and is host of several cultural programs, has acknowledged he took trips to the Caribbean, the French Riviera and Switzerland as a guest of the businessman, Pierre Botton. But Mr. Poivre d'Arvor has denied any wrongdoing.

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Israeli Soldiers Seize Palestinian Journalists

Date: 08 February 1993

Israeli soldiers arrested two Palestinian journalists and their assistant today while they were covering anti-Israel street protests in Gaza City. According to the Israeli Army, the three Palestinians were held for police investigation after refusing to leave an area that had been declared a closed military zone during the demonstrations. An army spokesman said the authorities were investigating whether the men had incited protesters.

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Attacks Make Journalism Perilous Work in Haiti

Date: 07 February 1993

By Howard W. French

Howard French

For Colson Dorme, a 26-year-old tape archivist at a local radio station here, a brief stint at street reporting may have proved the abortive ending to his dream of a career as a journalist, and perhaps to his life. Pressed into service on Monday to cover the arrival of a special United Nations envoy sent to Haiti to arrange the deployment of hundreds of foreign human rights monitors here, Mr. Dorme was last heard giving a distress call on the air as he was set upon by a crowd of Government supporters demonstrating against international efforts to restore democracy to this country.

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Looking for an Attorney General: White House Memo; Setting Up Direct Line To Country

Date: 07 February 1993

By Gwen Ifill

Gwen Ifill

Guided by polls, focus groups and a keen sense of pop culture, President Clinton is executing a plan to put a distinctive stamp on his Presidency instead of allowing others to define it for him. Rather than mount White House news conferences or rely solely on sober televised speeches, Mr. Clinton is attempting to forge a direct path -- by satellite and by jet aircraft -- into the minds of the Americans who are willing to give their President more time to prove himself.

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Are Fallen Barons Victims of Their Press Clippings?

Date: 07 February 1993

By Allen R. Myerson

Allen Myerson

THE fall of one after another corporate chief -- Robert C. Stempel at General Motors, John F. Akers at I.B.M. and, a week ago, James D. Robinson 3d at American Express -- has prompted many writers to muster a royal procession of metaphors. These men were monarchs or kings, we are told, holding sway over vast domains at imperial salaries, until they were beheaded or toppled by coups. But who crowned them in the first place? Their boards and their corporate predecessors, true. But also the chummy publicists and the business press, whetting and then feeding the public's appetite for celebrity.

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Records Link Buyer of Post To a Swindler

Date: 08 February 1993

By Diana B. Henriques

Diana

Federal court records in Manhattan show that Steven Hoffenberg, the prospective new publisher of The New York Post, knowingly used a confessed swindler to help him sell stock in his flagship company, the Towers Financial Corporation, in ways that violated Federal securities laws. Mr. Hoffenberg's negotiations to take over the Post have focused public attention on his financial empire, whose accounting methods are being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission and whose business practices have been the target of numerous civil lawsuits.

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Interim F.C.C. Head

Date: 08 February 1993

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

President Clinton named James H. Quello interim chairman of the Federal Communications Commission on Friday. He will head the agency until a permanent chairman is chosen. Mr. Quello, a Democrat, will temporarily replace Alfred C. Sikes, a Bush Administration appointee who resigned from the commission on Jan. 19. Mr. Quello was nominated to the commission by President Richard M. Nixon in 1974.

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