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Date: 01 November 2004
By Joel Brinkley
Joel Brinkley
Vice Pres Cheney repeats core anti-Kerry message several times in every campaign appearance, and is far more reliant on stump speech than other candidates, so that local news outlets sometimes see little to report; photo (M)
Date: 31 October 2004
By Jacques Steinberg
Jacques Steinberg
Peter Jennings, longtime anchor of ABC's World News Tonight, hopes to reclaim ratings lead he lost seven years ago when Tom Brokaw yields his top-rated NBC Nightly News to Brian Williams; ABC News has launched marketing campaign toward that end, and Jennings has taken to road to interview voters and candidates and meet advertisers; ABC affiliates in markets where Jennings has run second to Brokaw anxiously anticipate halo effect that could extend to their local news programming should he claim top spot; photo; graph (M)
Date: 31 October 2004
By Stewart Ain
Stewart Ain
Long Island Coalition for Fair Broadcasting changes its name to Fair Media Council and plans to broaden its monitoring of news coverage of Long Island to all media, not just television (S)
Date: 01 November 2004
By Jacques Steinberg and David Carr
Jacques Steinberg
Issue of whether news organizations should disclose controversial news about political candidate in last weeks of election campaign discussed in light of Republican complaints about disclosure by New York Times and CBS News that 380 tons of conventional explosives are missing from munitions facility in Iraq; Times executive editor Bill Keller says publication more than week before election gave candidates enough time to react; says decision to publish would have been harder if story broke closer to election (M)
Date: 31 October 2004
By John Schwartz
John Schwartz
REMEMBER atoms? People of a certain age were told in school that atoms were the smallest indivisible chunk of an element, and that they could be broken down into three relatively simple component parts: protons, neutrons and electrons. Simple. Solid. Comforting. Over time, what we know of the tiny world has gotten a lot fuzzier. The more scientists analyzed atoms, zapping them with ever more brutal jolts of energy, the murkier atomic innards became. There are particles with mystifying names like quark, lepton and neutrino.
Date: 01 November 2004
By Eric Pfanner
Eric Pfanner
Times of London, long voice of English establishment, is quietly going fully tabloid, dropping broadsheet version that has been published alongside new compact version for year; number of broadsheet papers across Europe have added tabloid-size editions or switched over entirely, seeking to bolster eroding circulations by appealing to new readers who prefer ease of smaller paper; photo (M)
Date: 01 November 2004
By Adam Nagourney and Janet Elder
Adam Nagourney
Nation girds for presidential election, worried about integrity of voting system, divided over legitimacy of Pres Bush's election four years ago and anxious about future no matter who wins contest; final New York Times/CBS News Poll shows Bush and Sen John Kerry in statistical tie, although it does register increase in Bush job approval rating that Republicans say means he is picking up speed; graph (M)
Date: 31 October 2004
By Edward Wong
Edward Wong
Eight marines are killed and nine others wounded near Abu Ghraib prison west of Baghdad when suicide car bomb rams into their convoy, resulting in deadliest day for American forces in last six months; Marines later report ninth combat death; insurgents stage their first major assault on news media organization by detonating car bomb outside Baghdad offices of popular Arab news network, killing at least 7 people and wounding 19 others; American military is making final preparations for all-out invasion of Falluja in hopes that overrunning insurgent sanctuaries there would quell guerrilla war across Iraq and secure city for country's first democratic elections, scheduled for Jan; photos (M)
Date: 01 November 2004
By Nat Ives
Nat Ives
Staff of Legal Affairs, two-year-old magazine of law and ideas, sever magazine's ties to Yale Law School as of Jan/Feb issue; chairman Seth P Waxman and editor and president Lincoln Caplan comment; photo (M)
Date: 01 November 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Halliburton Co wins contracts worth at least $400 million over five years to help Oman produce more oil; will help Petroleum Development Oman with oil well drilling, monitoring and production to help it increase output to 800,000 barrels a day by 2007 (S)