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Date: 20 May 2002
By Andrew Ross Sorkin
Andrew Sorkin
PBS television news anchor Jim Lehrer says we may be moving to time when major commercial broadcast networks will get out of news business and leave informing to others, University of Pennsylvania commencement speech; questions focus of all-news cable channels; photo (M)
Date: 19 May 2002
By Frank Rich
Frank Rich
Frank Rich article on diminished relevance of network news as anchors of three evening news programs -- Dan Rather at CBS, Peter Jennings at ABC and Tom Brokaw at NBC -- approach end of their careers and viewers drift to alternatives on cable and elsewhere; says network news was validated on Sept 11, when Americans returned to it for solid, unhysterical coverage; says form of evening broadcast is so powerful that it will likely survive turnover of anchors; photos (L)
Date: 19 May 2002
By Adam Liptak
Adam Liptak
Rose Farley, reporter for The Dallas Observer, faces libel suit for article she wrote as satire of judge's decision to jail seventh grader for reading graphic Halloween story to his class; article was not labeled as satire, but sFarley says article provided many clues that it was not meant to be taken seriously; Texas appeals court has declined to dismiss case, saying satire by its nature involves intentional publication of false statements and that proof of actual malice follows automatically; photo (M)
Date: 20 May 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
German metal workers in Berlin and Brandenburg region adopt wage accord, suggesting series of strikes are near end; will get 4 percent raise in first year and 3.1 percent more in second; executives and economists say raises could lead to layoffs
Date: 19 May 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
BALTIMORE, May 18 (Bloomberg News) — Lawrence Jones's experience as a sign painter was not the only reason he was hired in 1988 to carry on one of horse racing's oldest traditions.
Date: 19 May 2002
INTERNATIONAL 3-15 NATO's Role Less Clear Even as It Expands NATO is likely to expand this November, but some in Washington question whether this cold war alliance matters any more in the wake of Sept. 11. Serious efforts are under way to make NATO quicker, more precise and more effective. But there is also cynicism in the United States about whether European governments will spend enough money to live up to their commitments. 10 India Expels Pakistan Envoy Indian and Pakistani troops bombarded each other, and India said that it would expel Pakistan's ambassador to protest a recent attack. An Indian official said this slap at Pakistan was just a preliminary step, and such talk is stoking new fears that a war may be looming. 8
Date: 20 May 2002
INTERNATIONAL A2-9 Bomber Posing as Soldier Kills 2 Israelis at Market A suicide bomber disguised as an Israeli soldier blew himself apart in Netanya, killing 3 Israelis and wounding more than 50 with a shrapnel-packed bomb. It was the first suicide bombing since Yasir Arafat ordered his Palestinian security forces on May 8 to prevent ''all terror attacks against Israeli civilians.'' A1 Independence for East Timor East Timor became the world's newest nation after centuries of colonization by the Portuguese, decades of occupation by Indonesia and nearly three years of United Nations governance. A6
Date: 20 May 2002
I Want Media Inc, which offers online links at its Web site to articles about media news, agrees to license its daily roundups to two other media Web sites, American PressInstitute.org and Mediabistro.com (S)
Date: 20 May 2002
By Adam Clymer
Adam Clymer
Public opinion pollsters doubt September 11 terrorist attacks led to fundamental changes in American attitudes; say even nation's subsequent willingness to restrict civil liberties followed historical patterns, except for resistance to singling out American Muslims, which contrasted with attitudes toward Japanese-Americans in World War II and German-Americans in World War I; discuss shifts in public opinion at 57th annual meeting of American Assn of Public Opinion Research in St Petersburg Beach, Fla, repeatedly rejecting notion that 'everything has changed' (M)
Date: 20 May 2002
By Warren St. John
Warren St
Sylvia Ann Hewlett's book, Creating a Life: Professional Women and the Quest for Children, has failed to make best-seller lists despite presence on market for two months with kind of publicity authors and publishers usually only dream of on major television talk shows and news programs and in leading newspapers and news magazines; its peculiar fate has become publishing world's mystery of year; publishers say fault may lie with book's generic title, ambiguous cover and failure of news media to appreciate nuance of Hewlett's research, but larger factor may be reluctance of women to spend $22 for book loaded with depressing news about how pursuing careers may foreclose possibility of having children; photo (M)