Of Church, State and Journalism
Date: 07 January 2001
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Effort by AT&T to sell Salt Lake Tribune, newspaper it acquired in its purchase of TeleCommunications Inc, has stirred sectarian resentments; Tribune, founded by Mormon dissidents, serves as civic counterweight to Utah's dominant Mormon church, despite its joint operating agreeement with rival church-owned Deseret News; Tribune executives are trying to block paper's sale to MediaNews Group, sale backed by church; some non-Mormons fear church effort to silence paper that some observant Mormons see as constant irritant; table; photos (L)
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Journalists Really Do Have An Agenda; Reporters Closely Follow A.P.'s Daily List of Events
Date: 06 January 2001
By Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges
Associated Press daybook is schedule of daily events in New York City that often determines what gets covered in city and what does not; daybook is compiled to give members of media an agenda for major events taking place each day in city; events can be news conferences by mayor or wacky promotional events that are used to leaven nightly news; all subscribers to AP metro or broadcast wires receive daybook; photos (M)
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Minds Wide Shut, or How They Learned to Love a Cliche
Date: 07 January 2001
By Tom Kuntz
Tom Kuntz
List of some recent news headlines with variations on '2001' theme; photo from movie (M)
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Reporter and Philadelphia Paper Settle Libel Suit Filed After Firing
Date: 06 January 2001
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Philadelphia Inquirer settles libel lawsuit brought by Ralph Cipriano, reporter who had conflicts with his editors over his coverage of city's Roman Catholic Church; Cipriano, who was fired soon after filing suit in August 1998, charged that he was libeled when Inquirer's top editor, Robert J Rosenthal, questioned his veracity in comments in Washington Post (S)
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Muckraking Is Permitted, Student Editors Learn, but Just a Bit
Date: 07 January 2001
By Eun Lee Koh
Eun Koh
Matthew Chayes and Anja Vojvodic, editors of student newspaper at Francis Lewis High School in Queens, seek advice from Student Press Law Center; principal Catherine Kalina allows publication of article critical of school's bathrooms after some changes are made but says she opposes muckraking; photo (M)
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Talk About a Bad Press? Would Hysteria Be Closer?
Date: 06 January 2001
Excerpts, often explicity racist, from newspaper article of 1920's writing about jazz; photo (M)
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AUTOMAKER DESIGNATES CORPORATE MARKETING CHIEF
Date: 06 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
General Motrors Corp names Christopher J Fraleigh head of corporate marketing and advertising (S)
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SULZER MEDICA OF EUROPE ADDING INTRATHERAPEUTICS
Date: 06 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Sulzer Medica AG, Europe's biggest maker of orthopedic devices, agrees to pay $145 million in cash for Intratherapeutics of US to move into fast-growing market for peripheral stents (S)
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WINTER STORMS HURT CIRCUIT CITY'S SALES
Date: 06 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Circuit City Group, second-largest electronics chain in US, reports December sales at stores open at least year fell 1 percent (S)
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BORDERS, THE BOOKSELLER, SEES DOWNTURN IN ITS PROFIT
Date: 06 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Borders Group says fiscal fourth-quarter profit will be lower than forecast because of price cuts and below-average sales (S)
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