Media Talk; Commercial Puts Reporter in Tight Spot
Date: 14 June 1999
By Alex Kuczynski
Alex Kuczynski
Mary Civiello, reporter for WCBS-TV and alternate anchor on CNBC, loses her job at CNBC after she does commercial for Benecol, Johnson & Johnson margarine product that company says helps to lower cholesterol levels; photo (M)
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Why All the Fuss About Lou Dobbs?
Date: 14 June 1999
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
Moneyline News Hour has become one of most lucrative hours in all of cable television, so important to overall revenue at CNN that when Lou Dobbs recently announced that he was leaving as host of show, it was widely regarded as potentially serious blow to CNN's bottom line; photo (M)
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The Way We Live Now: 6-13-99: Word & Image; The Information Tyranny
Date: 13 June 1999
By Max Frankel
Max Frankel
Max Frankel column applauds a Bill Moyers program documenting slide of American society into a new information tyranny in which corporate wealth monopolizes debate, corrupting politicians and dictating policy; says when corporate interest are unable to mislead the public through campaign advertising, they concentrate their wealth to intimidate Congress through massive television advertising; says vast conglomerates like Disney, Fox and General Electric are acquiring control over entertainment hardware and software, seizing control over all the television news concerning their own conduct; photo (M)
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NATO Expands Its Force in Kosovo but Russians Still Block Airport
Date: 14 June 1999
By John Kifner
John Kifner
Some 200 Russian soldiers from United Nations peacekeeping mission in Bosnia who are occupying Pristina, Kosovo, airport block entry of British troops in embarrassing impasse for NATO's nascent peacekeeping effort in Kosovo; Pres Clinton discusses stalemate with Russian Pres Boris N Yeltsin by phone; NATO troops spread out through Kosovo; British paratrooper kills Serbian policeman who fired gunshots near one of their patrols, Pristina; German troops come under sniper fire, Prizren, and kill two Serbs who tried to attack them; Serbs fleeing Pristina set fire to Albanian homes, including home of religious leader; Albanian gunmen kill at least one Serbian policeman and reportedly abduct and kill Serbs in Pristina suburbs and around province; two German journalists die after attack by unknown gunmen; maps; photos (M)
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Lives; Beneath the Falling Bombs
Date: 13 June 1999
By Steven Erlanger
Steven Erlanger
Steven Erlanger article on the hostility he encountered in Serbia covering conflict over Kosovo as an American reporter (M)
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The Way We Live Now: 6-13-99: On Language; Lookit
Date: 13 June 1999
By William Safire
William Safire
William Safire column comments on the term 'lookit' and pays tribute to Meg Greenfield, the late Washington Post editorialist and Newsweek columnist (M)
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Nisource Bid Is Rejected
Date: 14 June 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Columbia Energy Group's board rejects Nisource Inc's $5.7 billion buyout offer (S)
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Machine Tool Orders Fell 10% in April
Date: 14 June 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Orders from American companies for domestic and foreign-produced machine tools fell 10 percent in April, to estimated $391 million from revised $433 million in March (S)
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Paperless Trading
Date: 13 June 1999
Marc Beauchamp letter comments on May 16 article on on-line trading; says newspaper quotes of previous day's stocks will soon become thing of the past
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Double-Teaming
Date: 13 June 1999
Sheldon Platt letter on Jeff Kisseloff's May 30 article recalls John Henry Faulk's legal victory against paper that published names of performers who were allegedly Communist sympathizers and supermarket owner who threatened to boycott products of sponsors who refused to fire them
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