Reluare duminică, 3 septembrie 1995

Nonstop Fire News Challenged Channel 12

Date: 03 September 1995

By Carole Paquette

Carole Paquette

SHORTLY after the blaze in Westhampton broke out on Aug. 24, News 12 Long Island began nonstop coverage that was to continue for 30 hours. The local television team helped to frame people's perceptions of the wildfires that destroyed 7,000 acres of pine woods, damaged a dozen homes andwere labeled the largest in the state since 1908. By the 31st hour, 18 reporters; 34 photographers, editors and truck operators; 31 production employees; and 41 members of the studio technical staff had worked 12- to 24-hour shifts blanketing not only Channel 12's regular Nassau and Suffolk County viewing area but providing footage that was seen internationally. Pat Dolan, the news director, reported from Chopper 12, which, with an NBC helicopter, provided aerial shots of the fire.

Full Article

Media: TELEVISION; Should networks use their news magazines to promote their entertainment shows?

Date: 04 September 1995

BY Lawrie Mifflin

Lawrie Mifflin

ELLEN DeGENERES is a personable comedian who has translated her talents to the prime-time sitcom world, starring in her own show, "Ellen," on ABC. Is that newsworthy?

Full Article

Staff Is Cut at Berkshire Paper

Date: 04 September 1995

By John Holusha

John Holusha

The new owners of the venerable Berkshire Eagle in Pittsfield, Mass., have moved to cut salaries and staff, slashing the newsroom work force by more than 25 percent. Saturday editions of the newspaper reported that 11 of the 40 editorial employees were either not offered jobs or decided to resign when an affiliate of the Media News Group of Denver took control last week of the Eagle Publishing Group, the newspaper's parent company.

Full Article

Editorial Notebook; A Genius of Bad P.R.

Date: 03 September 1995

By Howell Raines

Howell Raines

A slick Southern magazine, The Oxford American, has a striking photograph in its current issue of one of those new Alabama chain gangs that have produced a fresh gusher of bad press for my home state. The photograph reminded me of some phrases from "Stars Fell on Alabama" by Carl Carmer. Sixty-one years after it was published, Carmer's book remains as essential to understanding the Alabama mind set as "Absalom, Absalom" is to an understanding of Mississippi. Carmer, a New Yorker who taught at the university in Tuscaloosa, wrote of Alabama's "fatal compulsion" toward racial violence. The state broke the spell of that compulsion in the 60's, but these days it appears to be in the thrall of a less gory, but nonetheless perverse obsession. After complaining for years that the nation's journalists were too slow to forget about fire hoses and schoolhouse doors, Alabama's leaders, if not its citizens, have developed a renewed lust for damaging publicity.

Full Article

Technology: DIGITAL COMMERCE; An author with global ambitions uses the Internet to break into print.

Date: 04 September 1995

By Denise Caruso

Denise Caruso

RANDY CASSINGHAM, otherwise known to thousands of loyal readers in dozens of countries as "arcie@netcom.com," is taking a rather contrarian view of commercial publishing on the global Internet. Mr. Cassingham is the author of a column called This is True, which now pops up weekly, by request, in almost 120,000 electronic mailboxes around the world. Not only does he give away his weekly column, which he has been publishing via the Internet since July 1994, he encourages people to do what comes naturally in net culture -- that is, make copies and distribute them with impunity to friends and colleagues.

Full Article

Stocks Falling in Japan

Date: 04 September 1995

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Japanese stocks traded lower here today. Midway through the afternoon trading session, the Nikkei index of 225 issues was down 280.76 points, or 1.55 percent, to stand at 17,839.97. On Friday, the Nikkei rose 3.51 points.

Full Article

Kansas City Station Sold

Date: 04 September 1995

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

EZ Communications Inc. has exercised its option to acquire KFKF-FM, a radio station in Kansas City, Mo., for $28 million from Sconnix Broadcasting. In Kansas City, EZ already owns KBEQ-AM-FM, which it bought in March.

Full Article

Stone & Webster Urged to Make Deal

Date: 04 September 1995

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Stone & Webster, an engineering company based in New York, has been asked by a leading shareholder, Lens Inc., to put itself on the block or merge with another company. "Stone & Webster is a poorly run company with assets that are undervalued and underutilized," said Lens's principal, Robert A. G. Monks, in a letter to the company. Lens holds 3 percent of Stone & Webster's shares.

Full Article

In Malcolm Case, Quotation Marks Won

Date: 03 September 1995

To the Editor: Anthony Lewis (column, Aug. 25), in his defense of the journalist Janet Malcolm's honesty, is blind to the principle placed at risk by Ms. Malcolm's legal strategy. Away from the gossipy aura the Masson v. Malcolm libel case acquired, the question of who said what was always less important than the threat to the accepted definition of a "quotation."

Full Article

NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 03 September 1995

International 3-13 WOMEN'S LEADERS WARN CHINA Leaders of the groups meeting in China in advance of the world women's conference said they would end their meeting unless Chinese security forces halted their intensive surveillance. 1

Full Article