A Debate Heats Up: Is It News or Entertainment?
Date: 15 January 1989
By Albert Scardino
Albert Scardino
LEAD: After years of dancing around the edge of sensationalism, television leaped enthusiastically into the pit last year with the kind of journalism many newspapers have practiced for a hundred years or more. The half-dozen or so new shows and the old ones that remade themselves on a sex-and-mayhem model proved so successful that they have spawned a multibillion-dollar industry: reality-based television.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 16 January 1989
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A2-7 Yasir Arafat's wing of the P.L.O. has not planned or carried out any guerrilla acts in more than two months, the Israeli Army Chief of Staff has disclosed, drawing criticism from Prime Minister Shamir. Page A1
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State Is Lauded On Reform Of Welfare
Date: 15 January 1989
By States News Service
States Service
LEAD: NEW JERSEY'S Reach program, which gives welfare recipients training and helps them find jobs, was developed along with similar national welfare reform. But in the end, New Jersey got ahead of the Federal Government and helped guide the national effort.
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After Two Oaths, Lowey is 'Ready to Roll'
Date: 15 January 1989
By States News Service
States Service
LEAD: HER Capitol Hill office is in disarray; her computers are not programmed, and she is still in the process of hiring most of her staff. But Nita M. Lowey, the new Representive from Westchester County's 20th District, said she was ready to take on the United States Congress.
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When a Doctor Is Worth a Tax
Date: 15 January 1989
LEAD: IT WAS at the time a big step for Fort Cobb, Okla., population 722.
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Teddy Bears On Police Beats
Date: 15 January 1989
LEAD: AFTER hearing that a handful of other police departments in the country had found teddy bears valuable assistants on the beat, the Dade County Police in metropolitan Miami decided to recruit their own.
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Hoping to Salvage Desert Rail Depot
Date: 15 January 1989
LEAD: THERE is something about a ghost railroad stati, , ananding forlorn vigil in a lonely town, that grabs many city dwellers.
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Shot-Putter Wins Despite Incident
Date: 15 January 1989
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LEAD: Randy Barnes, a 1988 Olympic silver medalist, overcame the loss of sleep following an early morning confrontation with an Arkansas gunman and recorded the second-best American indoor shot-put today.
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The Camera Lens as Two-Edged Sword
Date: 15 January 1989
By Henry Hampton
Henry Hampton
LEAD: Except in rare and wonderful moments like Edward R. Murrow's 1960 documentary ''Harvest of Shame,'' television traditionally follows rather than leads when it comes to social movements. It is, of necessity and leaning, a cautious medium, licensed by the Government and influenced by the seesaw rhythms of public policy and piety.
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