Zap! Bam! Cow! A Brawl of the Tabloids Is About to Begin
Date: 08 November 1993
By William Glaberson
William Glaberson
Mooooooo. That is the sound of the New York City newspaper brawl getting much more mischievous.
El 7 de novembre de 1993 era un diumenge sota el signe estrella de ♏. Era el 310 dia de l'any. El president dels Estats Units era William J. (Bill) Clinton.
Si vas néixer aquest dia, tens 32 anys. El teu darrer aniversari va ser el divendres, 7 de novembre de 2025, fa 223 dies. El teu proper aniversari és el dissabte, 7 de novembre de 2026, d'aquí a 141 dies. Heu viscut durant 11.911 dies, o unes 285.886 hores, o uns 17.153.164 minuts, o uns 1.029.189.840 segons.
Date: 08 November 1993
By William Glaberson
William Glaberson
Mooooooo. That is the sound of the New York City newspaper brawl getting much more mischievous.
Date: 08 November 1993
By James Brooke
James Brooke
Last year, press revelations about corruption toppled Brazil's president. This month, press revelations about corruption are encouraging a purge of Brazil's Congress. "There are not many countries that have two Watergates in two years," said Aluzio Maranhao, news editor for a leading newspaper here, O Estado de Sao Paulo.
Date: 07 November 1993
By David E. Sanger
David Sanger
WHEN the revolution finally arrived in the Japanese political world last summer, the country's commercial television networks led the charge, and clearly enjoyed their newly discovered power to stir the electorate. Now the losers are out for revenge, trying to put the genie back in the television tube. For years the networks had been chipping away at Japan's supposed equivalent of the BBC, the state-dominated NHK television network, by nurturing some superstar newscasters, like Hiroshi Kume, who reported each scandal to hit the Liberal Democratic Party with sarcastic commentary and disbelieving stares. The public loved it.
Date: 07 November 1993
By Joseph P. Fried
Joseph Fried
On a small plot of trees and shrubs at the border of Jackson Heights and Elmhurst in Queens, seven neighborhood residents were scattered recently on benches in Manuel de Dios Unanue Triangle. Asked if they knew who Manuel de Dios Unanue was, four of the seven said they did not, explaining they were new to the area. The three others said they knew that Mr. de Dios was a journalist killed a year and a half ago in a restaurant across the street by the "cartel de Cali," as one put it, referring to a Colombian cocaine cartel. But they would not give their names for publication.
Date: 08 November 1993
By Deirdre Carmody
Deirdre Carmody
The frenetic 1980's had been over for only two months when Malcolm S. Forbes, chief executive of Forbes Inc. and a flamboyant presence on the American business scene for almost 40 years, died unexpectedly in his sleep at the age of 70. It was, everyone said, the end of an era. But it was also the start of an astonishingly compatible partnership, as his four sons assumed leading positions in the family publishing company that had been founded by their grandfather in 1917.
Date: 08 November 1993
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Cablevision Systems Corporation and E. M. Warburg, Pincus & Company have agreed to buy three cable-television systems in Massachusetts for $90 million from Neshoba Communications, Cablevision said Friday. The purchase, which is subject to regulatory approval, would add 34,500 subscribers in the Boston area to Cablevision's base of 2.3 million subscribers in 19 states. The company, which is based in Woodbury and is the nation's fourth-largest cable operator, produces American Movie Classics, Bravo and Sportschannel.
Date: 08 November 1993
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Thomas Hansberger, the president of Templeton Worldwide Inc., resigned unexpectedly on Friday, about a year after the mutual fund company was acquired by Franklin Resources Inc. William J. Lippman, a senior vice president with Franklin, will act as interim president. No other changes in personnel are expected and Templeton's research and investment process will not be altered, the company said.
Date: 08 November 1993
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
A San Antonio broker has been ordered to pay a woman more than $1 million for failing to pay her for securities that he sold from her account. According to an arbitration decision, a National Association of Securities Dealers arbitration panel ordered Jerome Hansmann in September to reimburse Maria de Jesus Navar, 79, of El Paso for $350,000 of losses and also imposed $700,000 in punitive damages.
Date: 07 November 1993
To the Editor: Walter Goodman condemns Dan Rather's criticism of the nature of television news and suggests that it is viewers' tastes that have dictated the glitz and glitter, the sex and violence that permeate the news programs in America. Perhaps this is so -- but isn't Mr. Rather to be congratulated for bringing the matter to the attention of the decision-makers, i.e., advertisers, corporate executives, news directors and television executives?
Date: 07 November 1993
To the Editor: Walter Goodman claims that television network news is simply cater ing to the taste of its audience when it does not devote more time to foreign and economic news and other substantive subjects. What he fails to realize is that it was corporate executives -- not the mass audience -- who slashed the budgets of the news divisions at the networks and drastically reduced their ability to cover foreign news. In the last five years, for example, NBC has closed bureaus in Paris, Rome, Amman, Cairo, Frankfurt and Johannesburg. And when was the last time Mr. Goodman saw a story from Asia on any network? Similar cuts in domestic coverage have prevented a thinned line of correspondents and producers from spending more time on in-depth reportage. Were corporate executives looking at the bottom line or at ratings books and audience surveys when foreign and domestic staffing was reduced? As for a lack of economic stories, I am sure that Stephen Aug at ABC, Ray Brady at CBS and Mike Jensen and Irving R. Levine at NBC would dispute Mr. Goodman's contention that the mass audience has no interest in their field. EDWARD PLANER Glencoe, Ill. The writer, a retired vice president of NBC News, teaches broadcast journalism at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.