TV Woos Viewers With News Of Business
Date: 17 February 1997
By Peter Truell
Peter Truell
Financial television grows rapidly in 1990's as programmers seek to attract the millions of Americans who now make more of their own financial decisions; many broadcasters on these newer channels are reluctant to say much about their ratings, and Nielsen Media, the television ratings company, keeps its numbers private; CNBC, one of few that reveals such information, says that it now reaches 61 million homes and that in the last quarter of 1996 an average of 2.3 million homes tuned in each week, up slightly from the prior year; race in December between CNBC and CNN to provide live ticker quotes running across the bottom of their screens highlights growing competition in the field; table; photo (L)
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Recycling Advocates Don't Take Less News Coverage Lightly
Date: 17 February 1997
By Claudia H. Deutsch
Claudia Deutsch
Steel Recycling Institute is abandoning righteous indignation and attempts to play to journalists' social conscience that advocacy groups usually use to drum up friendly coverage; mounts public relations campaign with enough gimmicks, celebrity endorsements and other bells and whistles to sell the most crass consumer product; reporters and editors offer numerous reasons for sporadic interest in a topic that once routinely hit page one (L)
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Clinton's Leash
Date: 16 February 1997
By Max Frankel
Max Frankel
Max Frankel column deplores US strictures on the operation of American news organizations in Cuba, which are contained in the Helms-Burton Act,and failure of CNN and other American news organizations to defy the law and force a decision from the Supreme Court; cartoon (M)
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Editors' Note
Date: 16 February 1997
Editor's Note comments on February 16 New York Times Magazine Word & Image column on legal requirements to be met by American news organizations before operating in Cuba
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Revisiting the Food Lion Case
Date: 17 February 1997
By Terry Tang
Terry Tang
Terry Tang Editorial Notebook column voices concern over $5.5 million punitive judgment against ABC, whose producers lied on a job application to do an investigative report on Food Lion supermarket chain; says that while criminal methods cannot be tolerated, there may be instances where reporters must use deception to get an important story told (M)
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Law Schools Optimistic on Jobs
Date: 16 February 1997
By Linda Saslow
Linda Saslow
The two law schools on Long Island, Hofstra and Touro, are optimistic over job prospects for their graduates, despite survey by US News & World Report citing intense competition (M)
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Deficit: Public Enemy No. 1, It's Not
Date: 16 February 1997
By David E. Rosenbaum
David Rosenbaum
Constitutional amendment to require balanced Federal budget, core Republican issue for years, has strong suport among Americans when they are asked if they favor or oppose measure, but reframing poll question draws differing responses; 49 percent in recent New York Times/CBS News Poll say amendment is not the kind of issue for which they would change Constitution; table of responses (M)
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And the winner of the 'Worst Software Patent of the Year' is, hmm, a certain William H. Gates.
Date: 17 February 1997
By Teresa Riordan
Teresa Riordan
Gregory Aharonian, editor of Internet Patent News Service, will officially announce his annual Worst Software Patent of the Year award on Feb 17; winner for 1996 is number 5,552,982, a 'method and system for processing fields in a document processor' invented by William H Gates 3d, better known as Bill Gates, chief executive of Microsoft Corp; Peter J Jackson and Bryan Loofbourrow are also listed as inventors; patent itself is assigned to Microsoft (L)
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Uncle Fidel
Date: 16 February 1997
By Thomas Goltz
Thomas Goltz
Thomas Goltz column reports that the post-Soviet obsession with good Cuban cigars has made them an ideal 'gift' with which to facilitate his work as a war correspondent in former Soviet Union (M)
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Stocks Rise in Japan
Date: 17 February 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Japan's Nikkei index of 225 issues is up 28.65 points, or 15-hundredths of 1 percent, at 18,750.65 on Monday, Feb 17 (S)
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