When News Must Pay Its Way, Expect Trivia
Date: 02 October 1989
By Peter J. Boyer
Peter Boyer
LEAD: For as long as there has been television journalism there has been the TV journalist's predicament, that of doing serious work in a medium that most wants merely to amuse. But the news divisions at last seem to have found an answer to their abiding dilemma: In a universe that values entertainers more than it values journalists, the journalists are becoming entertainers.
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Shortwave Makes News
Date: 01 October 1989
By Hans Fantel
Hans Fantel
LEAD: The Canadian sociologist Marshall McLuhan used to speak of a ''global village'' as the likely result of the electronic age.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 02 October 1989
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A3-10 Israel is seeking $400 million from the United States to finance construction of housing for Soviet Jewish emigres. Israeli officials said some of the housing would probably go up in the West Bank. Page A1
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Hearing Set on Aged, Disabled Poor
Date: 01 October 1989
By States News Service
States Service
LEAD: A CONGRESSIONAL hearing in Central Islip this week will throw a national spotlight on an innovative Suffolk County program that can better enable localities to shoulder the burden of their growing population of the elderly and disabled poor.
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More Hometown Turf for Hartford Courant
Date: 02 October 1989
By Alex S. Jones
Alex Jones
LEAD: The Hartford Courant, long the voice of Connecticut's capital city, is now trying to offer hometown coverage - and attract hometown advertising - in 82 towns from Long Island Sound to the Massachusetts border.
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'Today' Official Goes to 'Channel One'
Date: 02 October 1989
LEAD: A senior executive of the ''Today'' show has been named executive producer of ''Channel One,'' an advertiser-supported daily news program that is to be presented in junior and senior high schools beginning in March 1990.
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Poland's Censors Beginning to Fade
Date: 01 October 1989
By John Tagliabue, Special To the New York Times
John Tagliabue
LEAD: Poland's censor, still officially ensconced in the Government bureaucracy, reached for his scissors 2,528 times last year, and 80 percent of his snipping was done in 20 mostly non-Communist, church-related newspapers.
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In Brazilian Race, a Communist Stands Out
Date: 01 October 1989
By James Brooke, Special To the New York Times
James Brooke
LEAD: Flipping through Brazilian television channels one recent evening, viewers had the choice of a comedy, ''Cockroach Cabaret,'' an action show, ''Tank Commando,'' or a one-hour interview with Roberto Freire, one of 28 minor-party candidates for President.
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H.U.D. Ties of 2 Bush Nominees Raise Roadblocks
Date: 02 October 1989
By Philip Shenon, Special To the New York Times
Philip Shenon
LEAD: The disclosure of widespread mismanagement and political favoritism at the Department of Housing and Urban Development has placed roadblocks in the Senate confirmation process for two of President Bush's nominees who had ties to the agency.
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Mubarak Repeats Offer to Meet With Shamir
Date: 01 October 1989
Special to The New York Times
LEAD: The Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, made a rare telephone call to Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir on Friday night and repeated a conditional offer to meet with the Israeli leader, an official said today.
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