At Arab All-News Channel, Western Values Prevail
Date: 12 October 2001
By John Kifner
John Kifner
Al Jazeera, Qatar-based satellite television channel now known all over world for broadcasting Osama bin Laden's defiant speech, is respected in Arab world for its uncensored reports; is difficult to black out, blunting government efforts to censor news and opinion; photo (M)
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Networks Agree to U.S. Request To Edit Future bin Laden Tapes
Date: 11 October 2001
By Bill Carter and Felicity Barringer
Bill Carter
Five major television news organizations agree to White House suggestion to abridge any future videotaped statements from Osama bin Laden or his followers to remove language government considers inflammatory; decision comes after conference call between White House national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and ABC News, CBS News, NBC News and its subsidiary, MSNBC, Cable News Network and Fox News Channel; this is first time in memory that networks have agreed to joint arrangement to limit their prospective news coverage; networks claim Rice mainly argued that tapes enable bin Laden to vent propaganda intended to incite hatred and potentially kill more Americans; say they will broadcast only short parts of any tape issued by Al Qaeda and would eliminate any passages urging violence against Americans; coverage of aftermath of terrorist attacks on New York and Pentagon has generated intense competitive pressure among television news organizations; tapes from bin Laden and his associates were broadcast by Arabic language satellite network Al Jazeera and picked up by American networks; photo (M)
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President Is Using TV Show and the Public in Combination to Combat Terrorism
Date: 11 October 2001
By Alessandra Stanley
Alessandra Stanley
Pres Bush's media strategy includes trying to dissuade American television news organizations from broadcasting pretaped statements from Osama bin Laden; also enlists support of television program America's Most Wanted, which has proven record of tracking down suspects; new episode will focus on terrorists on list released by FBI (M)
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White House Seeks to Limit Transcripts
Date: 12 October 2001
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
Bush administration asks newspapers not to publish full texts of statements by Osama bin Laden or his followers, holding they could inflame followers and may contain coded messages that could spur attacks on Americans; editors comment (M)
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World Business Briefing | Australia: Australia: Murdoch Expects Flat Year
Date: 12 October 2001
By Becky Gaylord (NYT)
Becky NYT
News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch says immediate effects of Sept 11 terrorist attacks cost company at least $100 million in advertising bookings, address to annual meeting; predicts results in this fiscal year will be flat against prior year; adds promising signs have emerged; photo (S)
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Wartime Secrecy
Date: 11 October 2001
Editorial says Pres Bush wisely backed away from his threat to curtail classified military and intelligence briefings to Congress; says Bush's impatience with Congress risked short-circuiting constitutional powers of legislative branch; says administration's wish to tightly control flow of information about war on terrorism could ultimately undermine public support for Washington's antiterror campaign by depriving Americans of information they need to assess administration's actions and state of nation's security; objects to White House effort to get major television news organizations to abridge future videotaped statements of Osama bin Laden in absence of clear evidence that coded messages are contained in videotapes
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New Bomb Raids Near Kabul and Refugees Flee Kandahar
Date: 11 October 2001
By Terence Neilan
Terence Neilan
The heaviest airstrikes of the United States-led campaign continued against Afghanistan for a fifth day as thousands were reported fleeing from Kandahar.
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U.S. SHIFTS FOCUS OF ATTACK IN AFGHANISTAN BY BOMBING GROUND FORCES OF TALIBAN
Date: 11 October 2001
By Michael R. Gordon and Steven Lee Myers
Michael Gordon
American warplanes pound barracks, garrisons and troop encampments across Afghanistan in heaviest airstrikes yet against ground forces of Taliban regime, protectors of suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden and his network; Pres Bush announces multimillion-dollar rewards for capture of bin Laden and 21 other international terrorists, including several of his lieutenants; White House persuades five major American television news organizations to agree to edit broadcasts of any more videotaped statements from bin Laden or his organization, for fear that they contain coded messages; American military operation suffers its first casualty when American soldier is crushed between two military vehicles at Khanabad air base in Uzbekistan; Pentagon officials acknowledge that American cruise missile might have been responsible for death of four security guards at United Nations-affiliated organization in Kabul (M)
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AT&T CABLE UNIT HAS WARRANT TO BUY STAKE IN FOX NEWS
Date: 11 October 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
AT&T cable television holds warrant to buy can buy 20 percent stake in Fox Entertainment Corp's Fox News Channel for $280 million, under terms of five-year-old agreement, whose terms were not previously disclosed (S)
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METROMEDIA FIBER NAMES CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Date: 11 October 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Metromedia Fiber Network Inc names Randall Lay as chief financial officer (S)
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