กำลังเล่นซ้ำ วันอาทิตย์ที่ 23 มกราคม ค.ศ. 1994

Meanwhile, on the Extremely Late Show

Date: 23 January 1994

By James Barron

James Barron

TED HAS ALREADY SIGNED OFF and David and Jay are winding down for the night when Thalia Assuras is revving up. She is on the phone, checking story lineups. She is riffling through a script. She is on the phone again. She is drinking strong, strong coffee -- cup No. 3 or 4 of the 10 or so she guzzles between dusk and dawn. "And then," she says, "I start on the decaf." It's another caffeine-fueled night at "World News Now," the late-late ABC News program that has made Ms. Assuras a kind of Linda Ellerbee for the 90's. Ms. Ellerbee developed something close to a cult following on "NBC News Overnight," which went on the air in 1982 and was canceled in 1983 because it was costing $3.5 million a year.

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Critic's Notebook; As Shadows Fall, Cozy Electronic Companionship

Date: 24 January 1994

By Walter Goodman

Walter Goodman

Leaping to the defense of local news programs is like diving into a shallow and polluted pool, but as nature teaches, nutrients are often found amid muck. Lately, maybe because of the weather, I have been warmed by a community spirit that keeps the hours from seeming too dark as afternoon turns into evening. Snow, sleet or frost, viewers at home and reporters sliding around out there are allied against the elements. No, none of the laments you have read in this corner or elsewhere are about to be withdrawn. The programs still trade in mayhem and mawkishness, in the five boroughs and beyond. Where freakery calls, local news has the reach of CNN. Travel budgets are busted for a Bobbitt.

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SUNDAY, January 23, 1994; A New Donner Party?

Date: 23 January 1994

"Treacherous" may have become the most popular weather word of all time. "Brutal" is up there too along with "dangerous" and "scary." But treacherous seems to be the favorite of drivetime weathercasters. The word suggests betrayal -- on the part of the roads at the very least, if not on the part of the precipitation itself. It makes you wonder. How can anyone who knows about the cycle of the seasons feel betrayed by a snowstorm in January? Big talk makes commuters listen to the radio. But then you get in the car and all it takes is an extra half-hour to get to work, which wouldn't be so bad if you didn't have to listen to the horror stories. A man stepped out his door in the morning and almost slipped. Another commuter was stuck in a traffic jam. A woman is wearing long underwear. And, and . . .?

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CRIME IS BECOMING NATION'S TOP FEAR

Date: 23 January 1994

By Richard L. Berke

Richard Berke

Crime now rivals the economy in the eyes of Americans as the single most important problem facing the country, but they are divided over whether Republicans or Democrats are best able to do something about it, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll. The sharp rise in concern about crime helps assure that it will be a front-line issue in this election year. But there is also a widespread sense that the country is powerless to deal with it, with most Americans saying they do not expect violence to decline significantly in the next few years.

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The Nation; Once again, Capital Cry: Press Did It!

Date: 23 January 1994

By Maureen Dowd

Maureen Dowd

LIKE every other week in America, last week had its share of people vying for victimhood. Lorena Bobbitt, on the eve of her acquittal, clutched a teddy bear and bouquet, and Tonya Harding skated on a rink of thin ice to smile up innocently at Diane Sawyer. But out of all the would-be victims, the most peculiar was Bobby Ray Inman. The Rose Garden announcement last month that Mr. Inman was the President's choice for Defense Secretary caused this jaded capital to genuflect.

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New Valley Payment Plan

Date: 24 January 1994

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

The New Valley Corporation, formerly Western Union, said last week that it would amend its bankruptcy reorganization plan to increase recoveries by subordinated bondholders to 100 percent of allowed claims. The company's initial plan, filed in November, called for holders of public debt and other creditors to receive cash payments of 51 percent to 100 percent of allowed claims. New Valley offered the extra recovery after the official unsecured creditors' committee objected to the original plan, a New Valley spokesman, Warren Bechtel, said.

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Decision Against a Broker

Date: 24 January 1994

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Piper, Jaffray & Hopwood Inc. and two employees have been ordered to pay nearly $1.5 million to brokerage client who had big losses. A three-member arbitration panel of the National Association of Securities Dealers said the firm, based in Minneapolis, must pay $991,541 for losses sustained by Harv Jeppsen, a carpet layer who had invested $225,000 through Piper, according to papers from a decision earlier this month. The panel also ordered a Piper managing director, Don Larkin, and a former broker, George Barker, each to pay Mr. Jeppsen $250,000 in punitive damages.

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COKIE, NINA AND LINDA

Date: 23 January 1994

Thank you for Claudia Dreifus's interview with Cokie Roberts, Nina Totenberg and Linda Wertheimer, three reporters I've long admired (Jan. 2). It galls me that they don't trot out Cokie until the second half of "This Week With David Brinkley."

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COKIE, NINA AND LINDA

Date: 23 January 1994

I was surprised to read Nina Totenberg's comment that when she applied for a position at The Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Mass., in 1965, a male editor told her, "Oh, we don't hire women." I was a general-assignment reporter at The Ledger from 1957 to 1961, working with Brenda Maddox, Theresa McMasters and Mary Fitzgerald. We covered everything from courts to city hall. In fact, the then publisher, Prescott Low, and city editor, Don Wilder, were in the vanguard of male editors who gave women reporters excellent opportunities.

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Can the Mass Media Be Trusted With Disclosures on Anything?

Date: 23 January 1994

To the Editor: Anna Quindlen calls, in "Hillary Rodham Candor" (column, Jan. 12), for full disclosure by the Clintons in the Whitewater Development Company affair. While I agree that full disclosure would be helpful, this assumes that the mass media would use the information in a thoughtful manner -- a dubious assumption.

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