Mets Are Too Touchy For Their Own Good
Date: 20 April 1998
By Claire Smith
Claire Smith
Article contends that New York Mets, led by manager Bobby Valentine, are very sensitive when dealing with journalists (M)
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19th of April 1998 News
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Essay
Date: 20 April 1998
By William Safire
William Safire
William Safire expounds on meaning of punditry in Op-Ed column celebrating his silver anniversary as columnist for The New York Times (M)
They Let the Talking Heads Talk, but They Set the Tone
Date: 19 April 1998
By Walter Goodman
Walter Goodman
Article by Walter Goodman on various interviewing styles of some of television's most popular interviewers; focuses on Larry King, Jim Lehrer, Ted Koppel, Charlie Rose, Cokie Roberts, Sam Donaldson, Elizabeth Farnsworth, Tim Russert and Bob Schieffer; photos (L)
Liberties; We're NOT Worse Than Lawyers
Date: 19 April 1998
By Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd
Op-Ed column by Maureen Dowd mocks Steven Brill, founder of new media criticism magazine, Content, who criticized Dalton's school newspaper for not stirring up more controversy; Dowd applauds Dalton's teen editors, who noted that Brill's critique was made without citing substantial facts and without legitimate opportunity for response; says press flagellates itself enough and Brill, a cocky editor, is finding out that being criticized in press is no fun (M)
Looking through Pulitzer-colored glasses: Disasters and crime reign supreme.
Date: 20 April 1998
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer column on the kinds of journalism that win Pulitzer Prizes; finds tendency of Pulitzer judges to reward reporting of disasters and watchdog reporting that unearths corruption or abuse of power; finds few awards where business figures prominently; concludes that corrupt municipal government gets more scrutiny than corrupt brokerage house does; also finds few awards for coverage of Southern Hemisphere; photo (M)
Executive Shuns Pay
Date: 20 April 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Netscape Communications Corp's annual proxy filing with Securities and Exchange Commission shows that Netscape's president and chief executive, James Barksdale, declined virtually his entire pay package in 1997, year when company lost money (S)
He Should Listen
Date: 19 April 1998
Letter by Shirlee Bowne on March 22 article on 60 Minutes creator Don Hewitt's views on state of television news (S)
NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 19 April 1998
INTERNATIONAL 3-13 Chinese Government Releases Dissident Chinese dissident Wang Dan has been released from jail and has gone overseas for medical treatment, China's Xinhua news agency reported yesterday. China agreed in February to release Mr. Wang and to send him into exile. 1
NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 20 April 1998
INTERNATIONAL A3-10 Hemispheric Leaders Agree on Free-Trade Talks President Clinton, 21 other presidents and 12 prime ministers in the Western Hemisphere signed a declaration in Chile calling for talks in September on creating the world's largest free-trade zone, one that would span the Americas, with the goal of signing an agreement by 2005. A1 China Frees Dissident Leader China freed Wang Dan, a leader of the 1989 Tiananmen democracy movement, and sent him into exile in the United States, in a move the Chinese Government clearly hoped would score points with the Clinton Administration in advance of the President's visit to China. A1
Bronx Man Is Accused Of Gay Bias Attack
Date: 20 April 1998
Eric Rodriguez is charged with assaulting homosexual man in Bronx because he was gay (S)