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29th of January 2002 News
Știri așa cum au apărut pe prima pagină a New York Times la 29 ianuarie 2002
The Fox News Channel tops CNN's audience, and casts its eyes toward its advertising rates.
Date: 30 January 2002
By Jane L. Levere
Jane Levere
Fox News Channel, for first time in its five-year history, has drawn larger audience than CNN for full month, and it has also topped it in major demographic categories; though victory, which came in January ratings, has been long in making, it represents important milestone for Fox News; Fox News Channel has new bragging rights on Madison Avenue, where its news status could help it raise its advertising rates, which have generally lagged behind those of CNN (M)
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In Wartime, the People Want the Facts
Date: 29 January 2002
By Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel
Bill Kovach
Bill Kovach/Tom Rosenstiel Op-Ed article examines news coverage of war against terrorism in Afghanistan; finds over past four months there has been trend away from fact-based reporting, with Americans getting fewer facts and more opinion and with press losing measure of respect it had gained in November; examines findings of new study by Project for Excellence in Journalism--research institute affiliated with Columbia University, Pew Charitable Trusts and Princeton Survey Research Associates (M)
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Diverse Group Opposes EchoStar-DirecTV Deal
Date: 30 January 2002
By Laura M. Holson and Seth Schiesel
Laura
Diverse group that includes News Corp head Rupert Murdoch, Rev Al Sharpton, powerful members of Congress and Missouri soybean farmer Charles Kruse opposes EchoStar Communications' efforts to win regulatory approval for takeover of DirecTV; Justice Department, in consultation with Federal Communications Commission, will approve or reject $26 billion acquisition, deal that would create near-monopoly in subscription TV service; Sharpton is arguing that deal be rejected unless EchoStar agrees to carry more religious programming and programming aimed at minority groups; Missouri Farm Bureau Federation president Kruse says merger could keep households in sparsely populated areas from having choice of pay television providers; many members of Congress from rural and Western states agree, and coalition of state attorneys general may form to oppose merger; Murdoch, whose News Corp was losing bidder, says merger would give television programmers fewer competing buyers for their shows; few parties speaking out in favor of merger are EchoStar and DirecTV's corporate parent, Hughes Electronics (M)
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Viacom's Board Tells Redstone and Karmazin to End Feud
Date: 30 January 2002
By Bill Carter and Geraldine Fabrikant
Bill Carter
Directors of Viacom told Sumner M. Redstone, the company's chief executive, and Mel Karmazin, the company's president and chief operating officer, to end a feud that has emerged into public view.
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Viacom's Board Tells Redstone And Karmazin to End Feud
Date: 30 January 2002
By Bill Carter and Geraldine Fabrikant
Bill Carter
Directors of Viacom told Sumner M. Redstone, the company's chairman and CEO, and Mel Karmazin, the company's president and CFO, to end their public disagreements.
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Viacom's Board Tells Redstone and Karmazin to End Feud
Date: 30 January 2002
By Bill Carter and Geraldine Fabrikant
Bill Carter
Directors of Viacom told Sumner M. Redstone, the company's chairman and CEO, and Mel Karmazin, the company's president and CFO, to end their public disagreements.
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Missing American Journalist Wasn't Spy, Friends Say
Date: 29 January 2002
By Felicity Barringer With Erik Eckholm
Felicity With
Article profiles missing Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, apparently abducted in Pakistan; friends and colleagues are anxious not only about his disapperance, but by accusations that he worked for CIA; say he was not spy; photo (M)
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World Briefing | Europe: Ukraine: Whistle-Blower Blocked From Running
Date: 29 January 2002
By Patrick E. Tyler (NYT)
Patrick Tyler
Ukraine election officials block parliamentary candidacy of Mikola Melnichenko, former presidential bodyguard who has implicated Pres Leonid D Kuchma in disappearance of journalist Georgy Gongadze; Melhichenko fled Ukraine in Nov 2000 (S)
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An Intricate Web Lured U.S. Reporter to Meet a Cleric Who Then Vanished
Date: 30 January 2002
By Erik Eckholm
Erik Eckholm
Daniel Pearl, American reporter for The Wall Street Journal who was kidnapped in Pakistan, was drawn into well-laid trap by abductors who had been in contact with him for more than two weeks and promised to arrange secret meeting with Sheik Mubarik Ali Shah Gilani, cleric who has ties with Muslims in United States and who has disappeared from sight; Pearl, who was reporting on militant Islamic underground, apparently believed that Gilani had links to Al Qaeda; Federal Bureau of Investigation has entered investigation that so far has no suspects and mysterious motives (M)
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130 FASHION BUGS SCHEDULED FOR CLOSING
Date: 29 January 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Charming Shoppes, which operates Fashion Bug and Lane Bryant clothing stores, is closing 130 Fashion Bug stores as well as its Added Dimension/Answer chain and its 77 stores; closings will cost $23 million in fourth quarter, which ends Jan 31; will convert 44 Fashion Bug stores into Lane Bryant stores (S)
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