Повторно възпроизвеждане на неделя, 30 октомври 1994 г.

Neighborhood Stirring to Life

Date: 30 October 1994

By Bruce Lambert

Bruce Lambert

The neighborhood The Daily News will move into next year is best known for, well, being the future home of The News. Planners and neighbors say the newspaper's arrival at the Hancock building at 450 West 33d Street will bring new identity to an area that is only beginning to show signs of commercial life. "Getting The Daily News is a real coup for them," said Robert E. Flahive, the Manhattan director of the City Department of Planning. "I was surprised to see The News going that far west." Plans to extend the commercial expansion of the 80's into the area, he said, never materialized "because the market fell apart."

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Mediology

Date: 30 October 1994

By Max Frankel

Max Frankel

Sketch of The Voter, 1994, as currently rendered by The Media: Mad as hell. Hates the Ins. Doubts the Outs. Weary of the world and joyless on the job. Aggrieved by government. Nostalgic for family. Resentful of welfare, immigrants and taxes. Terrorized by crime, at least the news of it. Turned off by integration, even the dream of it. Amused, abashed, misjudged and misled by media -- if you can believe the media. This depressing portrait is offered a mere three years after America's cold war triumph. The nation is wealthier, freer and more secure than ever; its values -- democracy, individualism and cheap oil -- are captivating the world. And still the media make Americans out to be miserable. No, say many, the media make us miserable; they wallow in violence, rake up muck, stir up strife. They've made the news itself the enemy of hope. Grains of truth, buckets of hogwash. As the media's own polls should have taught, there's no such animal as Typical Voter. And there's no one beast called Media either. Many media are indiscriminate about voters, overlooking instructive studies of them. Voters, in turn, speak indiscriminately about the media when in fact they pick and choose from a huge and varied information menu.

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Walking the Walk

Date: 30 October 1994

By John Tierney

John Tierney

For too long now, the perp walk has been a misunderstood phenomenon. It is a standard scene on the evening news, captured every day in the city's papers, the brief moment when the alleged perpetrator of New York's latest atrocity is walked by police out the door of a station house. You watch as an accused murderer or mobster, helplessly handcuffed, is dragged through a horde of screaming reporters and jostling photographers, and you naturally assume you're seeing a barbaric mob wreaking random havoc. But that's not the case. It's actually a barbaric mob wreaking exquisitely planned havoc.

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POLL FINDS CUOMO HAS EDGED AHEAD OF PATAKI IN RACE

Date: 31 October 1994

By Kevin Sack

Kevin Sack

With a combination of patient strategy and unforeseen events, Gov. Mario M. Cuomo has edged ahead of State Senator George E. Pataki as New York's gubernatorial race enters its final week, according to a New York Times/WCBS-TV News Poll. The new poll, which was conducted from Wednesday through Saturday, shows that Mr. Cuomo's lead -- between 6 and 10 percentage points, depending on how it is measured -- has little to do with any new-found affection by New Yorkers for the 12-year incumbent. Instead, Mr. Pataki, the Republican nominee, has fallen behind because of the impact of B. Thomas Golisano's third-party candidacy and because Mr. Cuomo's campaign strategy of attack has convinced some voters that Mr. Pataki is an unacceptable alternative to the Governor.

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Sports Strikes Give Editors More Room to Play

Date: 31 October 1994

By Thomas H. Matthews

Thomas Matthews

For many sports fans, the last month has been a particularly trying time. Labor shutdowns have wiped out the Major League Baseball playoffs and World Series and postponed the start of the National Hockey League season. But for sports editors at many newspapers across the country, the disappearance of two leading sports has led to brainstorming that many feel has benefited readers. "Sometimes sportswriting can fall into a rut, but the absence of certain sports has forced us to be more creative," Bob Sales, sports editor of The Boston Herald, said. "I break sports readers into three categories: the gambler, the sports nut and the reader who is looking for a good story. I think we're serving the third-category readers better."

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THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Press; A Connecticut newspaper waxes Dickensian by offering readers a quirky serialized novel.

Date: 31 October 1994

By William Glaberson

William Glaberson

A COMELY Connecticut woman is having a steamy affair with a handsome war hero who has been dead for 218 years, according to The Hartford Courant. Now if that stretches your definition of newspaper fare, the editors of The Courant have accomplished their goal. The deceased lucky fellow is Caleb Quine, a fictional Nathan Hale-type who may have been done in by the British during the American Revolution and who is currently starring in his own novel in the pages of The Courant.

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Corrections

Date: 31 October 1994

Because of a transmission error, an article on Friday about a reporter whose articles resulted in manslaughter charges in an assisted suicide case misspelled part of the name of a law firm that represents news organizations. It is Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, not Dunne.

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WHERE THERE'S WAR, THERE'S AMANPOUR

Date: 30 October 1994

As a former foreign correspondent who covered the Spanish Civil War, the Russo-Finnish conflict, the evacuation of the British at Dunkirk, the Narvik and North African campaigns, I thought Stephen Kinzer's article on Christiane Amanpour was a well-deserved accolade to a woman who goes from one dangerous news assignment to another. What a reporter! ("Where There's War, There's Amanpour," Oct. 9).

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When Others' Suffering Serves as Entertainment

Date: 30 October 1994

To the Editor: The Oct. 16 article, "Through a Lens Darkly," shocked me. It is appalling that St. Vincent's Hospital in Greenwich Village would allow a camera crew into its emergency room to tape a live trauma for a TV show. Whatever happened to privacy and sensitivity to people in pain? Today private citizens use hand-held cameras to tape a crime in progress or a horrendous accident. The networks buy these videos and broadcast them on the news.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 31 October 1994

International A3-11 HAITIAN 'SECTION CHIEF' RULES Despite the President's return, authoritarian and often abusive rural magistrates still control much of rural Haiti, but the peasants have been emboldened and are beginning to fight back. A1

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