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11th of December 1994 News
Новини, както се появиха на първа страница на New York Times на 11 декември 1994 г.
Lights Out for Times Square News Sign?
Date: 11 December 1994
By Lawrence Van Gelder
Lawrence Gelder
Is it lights out for the zipper? The zipper is the moving illuminated bulletin board that began carrying headlines around the triangular building at 42d Street and Broadway on Nov. 6, 1928.
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Seeking the Roots of a Celebrity Society
Date: 11 December 1994
By Marjorie Kaufman
Marjorie Kaufman
ANDY WARHOL was wrong," Neal Gabler said. "He was right when he said everyone will be famous, but wrong about the 15 minutes. What we are going to see are more and more people getting famous for shorter and shorter amounts of time." As more people compete for fame and are anointed by the news media, the time will be more like one minute, he said, adding that today's society is a "celebrity society," in which gossip and fame equal power. "If people can't be famous, they want to read about it, watch it, listen to it, entrench their lives in it," he said. "It's a society obsessed and preoccupied with the O. J. Simpsons, the Woody Allens and the Mia Farrows."
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Republicans Get a Pep Talk From Rush Limbaugh
Date: 12 December 1994
By Katharine Q. Seelye
Katharine Seelye
To all the advice for the new Republicans coming to Congress, add this from Rush Limbaugh: A hostile press corps lurks inside the Beltway. "You will never ever be their friends," the talk-show host warned most of the 73 Republican freshmen at a dinner here tonight. "They don't want to be your friends. Some female reporter will come up to one of you and start batting her eyes and ask you to go to lunch. And you'll think, 'Wow! I'm only a freshman. Cokie Roberts wants to take me to lunch. I've really made it!' " The audience laughed.
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THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Press; Fairness, bias and judgment: grappling with the knotty issue of objectivity in journalism.
Date: 12 December 1994
By William Glaberson
William Glaberson
JAY ROSEN, a journalism professor and director of the Project on Public Life and the Press at New York University, is a press critic who often draws criticism from reporters and editors by saying journalism needs to rethink its fundamental canon: objectivity. Mr. Rosen sat down last week for a conversation about the way the press uses, or abuses, the claim to objectivity. Here are some excerpts: Q. What is journalistic objectivity?
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Consumers' Optimism Up
Date: 12 December 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The University of Michigan's preliminary consumer sentiment index for December rose to 97.7 from 91.6 in November, people with access to the report said last week. The University of Michigan index is based on 100, set in 1966. An increase in the monthly reading reflects consumers becoming more optimistic about the economy. Since 1966, the record high for the sentiment index is 101, set in March 1984. The record low is 51.7, set in April 1980.
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P.R. Spending Is News
Date: 11 December 1994
To the Editor: "The Myth of 'Negative Stories' " (editorial, Dec. 4) sensibly argues that the job of worrying about the negative or positive aspects of news articles is the business of public relations, not journalism.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 11 December 1994
"When you leave Washington, you may miss Washington, but Washington will not miss you." TOM BARRETT, a family counselor, speaking at an orientation for Republican freshman. [ 34:1. ]
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 12 December 1994
International A3-13 RUSSIA ENTERS SEPARATIST REGION Russian tanks rolled into a rebellious Muslim republic in southern Russia, setting off the country's worst crisis since President Yeltsin had troops fire on Parliament. A1
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 11 December 1994
International 3-29 AMERICAS FREE-TRADE ZONE President Clinton and Latin American leaders agreed at their summit meeting to create a free-trade zone, and officials said the only possible sticking point would be opposition from groups in the U.S. 1 SERBS BLOCK FUEL CONVOYS United Nations officials said that Serbs in Bosnia had been blocking fuel convoys, virtually paralyzing United Nations peacekeepers in many areas. 1
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William P. Luce, 70, News Editor of The Times in the Late 1980's
Date: 11 December 1994
By John Kifner
John Kifner
William P. Luce, a former news editor of The New York Times, died Friday night at Baptist Medical Center in Jacksonville, Fla., where he was vacationing. He was 70 and lived in Englewood, N.J. The cause was an aneurysm, his family said.
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