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Fox to Start a News Channel For Cable Viewers in October

Date: 19 July 1996

By The New York Times

The latest entrant in the 24-hour news business, a cable network from Fox, will begin appearing on Oct. 7 and will be called the Fox News Channel, or FNC, Roger Ailes, the chairman of Fox News, announced here today. Mr. Ailes offered few other details about what sort of programs he envisioned or how the daily schedule would be divided. He said that about 100 people had been hired, many from local television stations, and that he hoped eventually to have 300 to 600 employees.

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THE MEDIA BUSINESS;America Online Forms Alliance for News

Date: 18 July 1996

Dow Jones

Dow Jones

America Online Inc. said today that it had teamed with the Tribune Company to expand the local news and services it offers to 88 local markets on the Internet. The venture, dubbed Digital City, already operates in Washington, Boston and San Francisco, providing America Online members with information on local news, weather, sports, traffic conditions and local events.

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An Accord That Could Help Murdoch

Date: 18 July 1996

By Mark Landler

Mark Landler

Time Warner and the Turner Broadcasting System are the obvious victors in yesterday's agreement between Time Warner and the Federal Trade Commission. But the deal could also be a big windfall for a media mogul with no ties to either company: Rupert Murdoch. Mr. Murdoch's company, News Corporation, is starting a 24-hour news channel that will compete with Turner's CNN. As one of the key provisions in the F.T.C. agreement, Time Warner has pledged to carry a second news channel to compete with CNN on its cable systems.

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THE MEDIA BUSINESS;Time Warner Near Approval In Turner Deal

Date: 18 July 1996

By Geraldine Fabrikant

Geraldine Fabrikant

The Federal Trade Commission effectively cleared the way for the merger of Time Warner Inc. and Turner Broadcasting System Inc. yesterday but will require the new company's cable-television system to carry a second news channel as a rival to its own Cable News Network. The requirement for the second channel is intended to increase competition in cable programming. According to communications lawyers, it is the first time that the Government has mandated that a cable company carry a particular type of programming on a broad national scale. Previously, cable companies have only been required to carry broadcast channels, to assure that customers continue to receive television programming that has historically been free.

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EXPLOSION ABOARD T.W.A. FLIGHT 800: TELEVISION;Crash Coverage Is Fed By 24-Hour Guesswork

Date: 19 July 1996

By Walter Goodman

Walter Goodman

Not long into CNN's continuous coverage of Wednesday night's crash of T.W.A. Flight 800, a "terrorism expert," one of the mysterious cadre that has found a place in the television Rolodex (but what do they do between disasters?), said flatly that he thought the airliner had been brought down by a bomb. That set the theme for the half-dozen channels that stayed with the story for the rest of the long night and into Thursday. Anchors and reporters dutifully kept cautioning against conclusion-jumping, but the fascination with the possibility of a bomb was irresistible. The warnings against speculation were followed at once by more speculation, which was followed by cautions, like surgeon general's warnings at a smoke-in. Remember Pan Am 103. Remember Saudi Arabia. What about security at Athens Airport? What about the Olympics?

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EXPLOSION ABOARD T.W.A. FLIGHT 800: THE NEWSPAPERS;Papers Were Wary This Time, And Didn't Jump to Conclusions

Date: 19 July 1996

By Iver Peterson

Iver Peterson

The explosion that killed 230 people aboard T.W.A. Flight 800 last night prompted newspapers around the country to raise the possibility that a bomb caused the blast. But the memory of how many newspapers jumped to conclusions after the Oklahoma City bombing seemed to deter editors from speculating who might have been responsible. Immediately after the Oklahoma City blast, on April 19, 1995, there was widespread speculation in the press that Islamic terrorists were responsible. But that turned out not to be the case, and that early coverage seemed to haunt newspapers as they reported on Wednesday's explosion.

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Telling the Truth

Date: 18 July 1996

By Iver Peterson

Iver Peterson

Now that Joe Klein has come clean and admitted that he was the Anonymous behind "Primary Colors," a more complicated question takes the place of the original hunt for the writer, at least among reporters and editors. The question is, Is Mr. Klein somehow morally or ethically at fault for not only denying his authorship, but also going out of his way to deny it? And what is the ethical position of Newweek, whose editor, Maynard Parker, was in on the secret from the start and not only kept it out of his magazine, but also kept one of his own reporters in the dark when that reporter wrote one of Newsweek's few brief pieces on the year's most delicious literary mystery?

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The Color of Mendacity

Date: 19 July 1996

American journalists have long believed that Government intrusion is the greatest threat to the profession. That may still be true when it comes to issues of independence and secrecy. But when it comes to the credibility of the American press, the most damaging recent wounds have been self-inflicted. The mimicking of salacious British tabloids, the raucous Washington talk shows, the fad for intellectually flaccid "civic journalism" have all done damage. The latest damage comes from the political columnist Joe Klein's revelation that he lied, often and energetically, about being the anonymous author of "Primary Colors" and that his top editor at Newsweek cooperated in the subterfuge. Their behavior violates the fundamental contract between journalists, serious publications and their readers. If journalists lie or publications knowingly publish deceptively incomplete stories, then readers who become aware of the deception will ever after ask the most damaging of all questions: How do I know you are telling me the whole truth as best you can determine it this time?

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POLITICAL BRIEFING: THE STATES AND THE ISSUES

Date: 18 July 1996

By Robin Toner

Robin Toner

North Carolina A Timing Question On Redistricting

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Detroit Strike Is Not Led by Teamsters

Date: 19 July 1996

To the Editor: Your July 15 Business Day article on the anniversary of the Detroit newspaper strike ("Bitter Newspaper Strike Grinds On in Detroit") is an unchallenged litany of management distortions.

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