Schwarzenegger Prompts Role Reversal Among Media
Date: 06 October 2003
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
Mainstream news organizations report sensational allegations that Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is running for governor in California, groped women over the years, while supermarket tabloids, for whom story would appear a natural, are largely silent; mainstream news executives say compressed gubernatorial campaign in California forces them to present potentially explosive articles closer to Election Day than they might prefer; tabloid executive say they have not found any news to break about allegations, which they say are not new; Schwarzenegger also has ties to fortunes of Weider Publications, which is now part of American Media, which owns a number of tabloids (M)
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Sports Fan Is the Prize, Or the Victim, In Cable Fight
Date: 06 October 2003
By David D. Kirkpatrick and Geraldine Fabrikant
David
Television sports fans in cities served by Cox Cable face possible loss of games because of company's refusal to pay fees demanded by Fox Sports and ESPN for their coveted programming; standoff comes on heels of fight between Cablevision and YES Network that deprived New Yorkers of Yankee games in 2002 and feud this spring between Fox Sports and Time Warner in Minnesota and Orlando; fans also face higher monthly fees; News Corp, parent of Fox Sports, and Walt Disney, parent of ESPN, each count on sports networks as pivotal source of financial growth (M)
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ESPN Responds, but Its Leaders Hide
Date: 06 October 2003
By Richard Sandomir
Richard Sandomir
Richard Sandomir TV Sports column discusses Sunday NFL Countdown analysts, who apologize on air for not reacting to Rush Limbaugh's assertion that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb is overrated and represents media's desire to see successful black quarterback; ESPN executives have been quiet since Limbaugh resigned under fire from NFL, media and other pundits, who called his comments racist (M)
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Who's Shallow Throat?
Date: 06 October 2003
By William Safire
William Safire
William Safire Op-Ed column offers glossary of jargon on topic of government leaks in order to explain charges and countercharges surrounding Joseph Wilson and his wife, a Central Intelligence operative whose name was revealed in Robert Novak column (M)
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TANGER AND BLACKSTONE TO BUY OUTLETS FOR $304 MILLION
Date: 07 October 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Tanger Factory Outlet Centers, real estate investment trust that owns 33 shopping centers, and Blackstone Group acquire nine factory outlets from Charter Oak Partners for $304 million and assumption of $187 million in debt (S)
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TAUBMAN REJECTS LATEST UNSOLICITED TAKEOVER OFFER
Date: 07 October 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Taubman Centers Inc rejects bid by Simon Property Group and Westfield America Inc after they extend their unsolicited offer for at least fourth time in year; $20-a-share offer for Taubman has garnered 19.6 million, or 24 percent, of 81 million shares outstanding, less than two-thirds needed to make successful bid (S)
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GOODYEAR TO ELIMINATE 1,100 JOBS AT ALABAMA PLANT
Date: 07 October 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co will close Huntsville, Ala, factory by Dec 5, cutting about 1,100 jobs as part of reductions allowed under labor contract approved last month (S)
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TENET SAYS PEOPLE'S HEALTH RECEIVES FEDERAL SUBPOENA
Date: 07 October 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Tenet Healthcare Corp says company that provided services to one of its units received subpoena from federal prosecutors in New Orleans; subpoena does not say what probe is about; Tenet says it owned 50 percent 'membership interest' in company, called People's Health Network (S)
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GREEN EQUITY INVESTORS TO BUY FTD FOR $420 MILLION
Date: 07 October 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
FTD Ltd agrees to be bought by Green
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FEDERAL COURT DROPS MYLAN FROM DRUG PRICING CASE
Date: 07 October 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Mylan Laboratories Inc says federal court in Boston dismissed claims company improperly reported prices to federal government; ruling involves consolidated lawsuit against pharmaceutical industry by consumers, health plans and state attorneys general who say drug companies tell government that they charge doctors more than they do, inflating reimbursements; government uses so-called average wholesale prices to set reimbursements from federal health programs; Federal judge in Pittsburgh rules that Mylan infringed patents related to cancer drug paclitaxel; patents are owned by NaPro BioTherapeutics Inc and licensed to Abbott Laboratories (S)
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