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30th of January 2002 News
Новини, както се появиха на първа страница на New York Times на 30 януари 2002 г.
The Fox News Channel tops CNN's audience, and casts its eyes toward its advertising rates.
Date: 30 January 2002
By Jane L. Levere
Jane Levere
Fox News Channel, for first time in its five-year history, has drawn larger audience than CNN for full month, and it has also topped it in major demographic categories; though victory, which came in January ratings, has been long in making, it represents important milestone for Fox News; Fox News Channel has new bragging rights on Madison Avenue, where its news status could help it raise its advertising rates, which have generally lagged behind those of CNN (M)
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Diverse Group Opposes EchoStar-DirecTV Deal
Date: 30 January 2002
By Laura M. Holson and Seth Schiesel
Laura
Diverse group that includes News Corp head Rupert Murdoch, Rev Al Sharpton, powerful members of Congress and Missouri soybean farmer Charles Kruse opposes EchoStar Communications' efforts to win regulatory approval for takeover of DirecTV; Justice Department, in consultation with Federal Communications Commission, will approve or reject $26 billion acquisition, deal that would create near-monopoly in subscription TV service; Sharpton is arguing that deal be rejected unless EchoStar agrees to carry more religious programming and programming aimed at minority groups; Missouri Farm Bureau Federation president Kruse says merger could keep households in sparsely populated areas from having choice of pay television providers; many members of Congress from rural and Western states agree, and coalition of state attorneys general may form to oppose merger; Murdoch, whose News Corp was losing bidder, says merger would give television programmers fewer competing buyers for their shows; few parties speaking out in favor of merger are EchoStar and DirecTV's corporate parent, Hughes Electronics (M)
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Viacom's Board Tells Redstone and Karmazin to End Feud
Date: 30 January 2002
By Bill Carter and Geraldine Fabrikant
Bill Carter
Directors of Viacom told Sumner M. Redstone, the company's chief executive, and Mel Karmazin, the company's president and chief operating officer, to end a feud that has emerged into public view.
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Viacom's Board Tells Redstone And Karmazin to End Feud
Date: 30 January 2002
By Bill Carter and Geraldine Fabrikant
Bill Carter
Directors of Viacom told Sumner M. Redstone, the company's chairman and CEO, and Mel Karmazin, the company's president and CFO, to end their public disagreements.
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Viacom's Board Tells Redstone and Karmazin to End Feud
Date: 30 January 2002
By Bill Carter and Geraldine Fabrikant
Bill Carter
Directors of Viacom told Sumner M. Redstone, the company's chairman and CEO, and Mel Karmazin, the company's president and CFO, to end their public disagreements.
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New Message Threatens Execution of U.S. Reporter and Others Who Stay in Pakistan
Date: 31 January 2002
By Felicity Barringer With Erik Eckholm
Felicity With
New, more menacing e-mail message apparently from group claiming to have kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan is sent to news organizations threatening to execute him within 24 hours and to target all American journalists who do not leave Pakistan in next three days; Pakistani officials announce they have located and detained Sheik Mubarik Ali Shah Gilani, radical Muslim cleric whom Pearl was seeking to interview when he was abducted; sheik is head of militant and mystical Islamic group that has following in United States and that was declared terrorist organization by State Dept in mid-1990's; e-mail message accuses Pearl of being agent of Mossad, Israeli intelligence service; it appears to mock appeal that Journal's managing editor, Paul E Steiger, has made for Pearl's release; map; photo of Pearl in captivity (M)
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In the Labs; Equipment Check: Backpack, Goggles . . .
Date: 31 January 2002
By Susan E. Reed
Susan Reed
Mobile Journalist Workstation created at Columbia University is backpack-mounted computer that can help reporter cover a story; uses Global Positioning System satellites to calculate reporter's location and orientation-tracking device to determine head position and field of vision; reporter wearing see-through headgear resembling ski goggles can read useful information on liquid crystal displays that overlay graphics onto actual scene; photo (M)
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Prominent Legislator in Zimbabwe Faults Plan to Limit Media
Date: 31 January 2002
By Rachel L. Swarns
Rachel Swarns
Prominent member of Pres Robert Mugabe's own political party adds his voice to rising chorus of criticism of Zimbabwe's government; Edison Zvogbo publicly denounces as unconstitutional proposed law that would sharply restrict freedom of speech; this is first clear indication that discontent with Mugabe is beginning to boil even within party that has governed country since white rule ended in 1980; Mugabe has purged outspoken dissidents such as Zvogbo from senior positions within party; political analysts say Zvogbo would not have taken public position against media bill without strong support in some government circles; government, acknowledging Zvogbo's political clout, agrees to withdraw media bill and to submit amended version; simultaneously, police arrest and detain three reporters who were peacefully protesting outside Parliament building; photo (M)
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An Intricate Web Lured U.S. Reporter to Meet a Cleric Who Then Vanished
Date: 30 January 2002
By Erik Eckholm
Erik Eckholm
Daniel Pearl, American reporter for The Wall Street Journal who was kidnapped in Pakistan, was drawn into well-laid trap by abductors who had been in contact with him for more than two weeks and promised to arrange secret meeting with Sheik Mubarik Ali Shah Gilani, cleric who has ties with Muslims in United States and who has disappeared from sight; Pearl, who was reporting on militant Islamic underground, apparently believed that Gilani had links to Al Qaeda; Federal Bureau of Investigation has entered investigation that so far has no suspects and mysterious motives (M)
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Shares Rally After Optimistic News About the Economy
Date: 31 January 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Dow Jones industrial average climbs 144.62 points, or 1.5 percent, to 9,762.86; Nasdaq composite index advances 20.45 points, or 1.1 percent, to 1,913.44; Standard & Poor's 500-stock index gains 12.93 points, or 1.2 percent, to 1,113.57; graph; chart (M)
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