กำลังเล่นซ้ำ วันอาทิตย์ที่ 26 มีนาคม ค.ศ. 1995

THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Press; News organizations see a threat to their independence in an avalanche of subpoenas.

Date: 27 March 1995

By William Glaberson

William Glaberson

IS responding to subpoenas by lawyers a necessary cost of business for news organizations? Lawyers are issuing so many subpoenas to obtain information from news organizations that the demands may be interfering with news gathering across the country, according to a recent study. The study, released this month by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, found that in 1993 more than half of the news organizations that responded to a survey had been targets of subpoenas seeking such things as unpublished photographs, reporters' notes and testimony from journalists.

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THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Advertising; For Art News, all things beautiful include more consumer ads on its pages.

Date: 27 March 1995

By Leonard Sloane

Leonard Sloane

ATTRACTING a significant amount of consumer advertising to a publication geared to a specific market is every publisher's dream, but one that is rarely fulfilled. Nevertheless, good publishers are good salesmen -- and good salesmen do not quit. Milton Esterow, editor and publisher of Art News, has long been pitching for more consumer, or general, advertising to go along with the substantial art advertising that has traditionally run in his magazine. And this year, he expects the efforts to pay off.

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Don't Quote Me

Date: 26 March 1995

By Max Frankel

Max Frankel

Mommy, what's a source? A thing where something comes from; the beginning of a stream.

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Another Day Older and Running Out of Time

Date: 26 March 1995

By Louis Uchitelle

Louis Uchitelle

AMERICANS are scared. They are looking toward retirement not with the optimism of their parents, but with fear. Three out of four working Americans expect people their age to face a financial crisis when they retire, according to a New York Times/CBS poll. Over half say they have not begun to save for retirement. And many see themselves reaching old age without the company-paid pensions and Social Security that allowed their parents to live so comfortably.

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Texas Cable TV Deal

Date: 27 March 1995

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

TCA Cable TV Inc. said on Friday that it had agreed to buy the assets of Marcus Cable of San Angelo L.P. that are related to Marcus's cable system for about $65.5 million. The acquisition, to be completed June 1, gives TCA about 32,800 customers in the San Angelo and surrounding areas. TCA Cable, which is based here, operates cable television systems in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, New Mexico, Mississippi and Idaho.

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7,000 G.M. Workers Threaten To Begin a Walkout This Week

Date: 27 March 1995

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

About 7,000 hourly workers at the General Motors Corporation's truck engineering operations and its Pontiac East assembly plant in Pontiac, Mich., could go on strike Friday. The United Auto Workers union issued a five-day letter to G.M., which authorizes members of UAW Local 594 to strike Friday unless a variety of grievances are resolved, a company spokesman said today.

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INNUMERACY2

Date: 26 March 1995

Max Frankel's article on the media sloppiness was very interesting, but misquoted and misinterpreted numbers are just part of the problem. These, combined with the growing tendency to use hazy words like some, experts, may, often, could, and probably, have led to the "trend" article, which has become the refuge of every reporter seeking to achieve fame without accountability. As example: "Some experts believe X may cause Y, which often leads to dysfunctional consequence Z. Could this be true? Others say it probably is. And since X has increased 100 percent in the past year, watch out." This is tenuous stuff. It's verifiable and eye-catching, yet unprovable and perhaps even fraudulent in its layering of statistics on opinion on supposition.

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INNUMERACY2

Date: 26 March 1995

I read with interest and hope Max Frankel on "Innumeracy2 " (Word & Image, March 5). Is it possible that journalists, Washington's "experts" and all media may take this information and use it wisely? I rather think not. Obviously, to the careful reader/ listener, numbers are crunched and molded to one's direction.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 26 March 1995

International 3-15 AMERICANS SENTENCED IN IRAQ Two Americans arrested by Iraq after they reportedly strayed across the Kuwait border have been tried and sentenced to eight years in prison, officials said. 1 JAPANESE LEADER'S RISE The life of Shoko Asahara shows that it is possible for a religious figure to acquire in a few years the capability to engage in something closer to war than terrorism. 1

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 27 March 1995

International A2-7 UNLIKELY LOVE IN GUATEMALA The relationship between Jennifer Harbury, an American lawyer, and Efrain Bamaca Velasquez, a Guatemalan guerrilla, was improbable but passionate, and, in the end, marked by tragedy. A1

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