For Rather, Technology Has Drawbacks, Too
Date: 11 March 1996
By Lawrie Mifflin
Lawrie Mifflin
On March 9, 1981, the night Dan Rather replaced Walter Cronkite as the anchor of "CBS Evening News," the camera showed Mr. Rather from the waist up, with nothing behind him but a blank dove-gray backdrop. On his 15th anniversary broadcast Friday night, Mr. Rather sat enthroned at a semicircular mahogany desk the size of a small yacht, bedecked with a blue-suede top; behind him CBS producers busily worked the phones, with a solid wall of flashing television monitors as their backdrop.
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MEDIA: PRESS;In increasing numbers, critics get an early start in their analysis of campaign reporting.
Date: 11 March 1996
By Iver Peterson
Iver Peterson
PEOPLE who complain that Presidential campaigns start earlier and earlier can at least take heart from this: the political news media, who are partly responsible for the endless campaign, are also coming under the critical scrutiny of foundations and academics earlier in the race than ever before. For one thing, primaries are bunched together earlier this time around. For another, prominent journalists had themselves signaled during the last Presidential race that campaign coverage should be more issue-driven and less preoccupied with horse-race reporting and campaign personalties.
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Polk Awards Are Announced For Excellence in Journalism
Date: 11 March 1996
By Lawrence Van Gelder
Lawrence Gelder
Reporters for The New York Times have won 2 of the 12 George Polk Awards for excellence in journalism in 1995, capturing the prizes for metropolitan reporting and business writing. The winners were announced by Long Island University, which administers the awards.
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German Press Is Baring More About Politicians' Sex Lives
Date: 12 March 1996
By Stephen Kinzer
Stephen Kinzer
The press attention given to a state premier's divorce suggests that the code of silence that has long shrouded the private life of German politicians is slowly eroding. For years, the German press has been among the Western world's most discreet. Even when journalists saw prominent politicians cavorting openly with one woman after another, they wrote not a word. They still know much more than they write, but their reserve is slowly melting away.
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POLITICS: THE PROBABLE OPPONENTS;In Many Ways, Probable Foes Are Peas in Pod
Date: 11 March 1996
By Richard L. Berke
Richard Berke
Nearly three years ago, President Clinton and Senator Bob Dole and their wives broke bread at a festive, bipartisan dinner at Duke Zeibert's, a favorite restaurant of the powerful that was five blocks from the White House. "I thought they ought to know each other better in a social setting," said Robert S. Strauss, a confidant of Democratic and Republican Presidents who arranged the dinner for his two friends. "They got along fine. And they've each been able to maintain a civility in their contact."
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Read It First In Alternative Press
Date: 12 March 1996
To the Editor: Frank Rich's March 6 column, on the recent alternative media convention in San Francisco, is good reporting of a group with millions of members. True, the alternative press had 650 representatives. True, they seemed somewhat left of liberal. But the real "alternative press" is only now forming in a true underground of cyberspace.
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Read It First In Alternative Press
Date: 12 March 1996
To the Editor: Frank Rich's column on the Media and Democracy Congress ("Mixed Media Message," March 6) portrays the alternative press as a kind of lost tribe still stuck in the distant and presumably irrelevant 1960's. Except for a single reference to media conglomerates, your readers remain in the dark about the left's critique of mainstream media.
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COMPANY NEWS;IMMULOGIC-HOECHST PARTNERSHIP DISSOLVED
Date: 12 March 1996
Dow Jones
Dow Jones
Shares of the Immulogic Pharmaceutical Corporation of Waltham, Mass., fell 28 percent yesterday after Hoechst Marion Roussel Inc. dropped its partnership with the biotechnology company, surrendering the rights to the Allervax line of allergy products. Wall Street seemed uncertain whether the dissolution of the partnership was related to product performance or whether the venture was simply a casualty of Hoechst's reorganization after its merger with Marion Merrell Dow. Hoechst Marion Roussel is a division of the giant German drug maker Hoechst A.G., which said it planned to sell part or all of its 1.25 million shares of Immulogic, or about 6 percent of the company. Immulogic shares fell $3.75 to close at $13.25 on the Nasdaq.
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