Media Talk; Slide Seen at NBC Nightly News
Date: 16 November 1998
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
ABC's evening newscast, World News Tonight, has interrupted top ratings of NBC's rival Nightly News over last five weeks; graph; photo (M)
Il 16 novembre 1998 era una lunedì sotto il segno zodiacale del ♏. Era il 319 ° giorno dell'anno. Il presidente degli Stati Uniti era William J. (Bill) Clinton.
Se sei nato in questo giorno, hai 27 anni. Il tuo ultimo compleanno era il domenica 16 novembre 2025, 208 giorni fa. Il tuo prossimo compleanno è il lunedì 16 novembre 2026, in 156 giorni. Hai vissuto per 10.070 giorni, o circa 241.691 ore, o circa 14.501.477 minuti, o circa 870.088.620 secondi.
Date: 16 November 1998
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
ABC's evening newscast, World News Tonight, has interrupted top ratings of NBC's rival Nightly News over last five weeks; graph; photo (M)
Date: 16 November 1998
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Dozen news organizations press to open news bureaus in Cuba despite general cutbacks in foreign news reporting; have gotten United States Government waivers, but only CNN and now Associated Press have won Cuban permission for permanent correspondent; photo (M)
Date: 17 November 1998
By Suzanne Daley
Suzanne Daley
South Africa's Human Rights Commission says it will open probe into racism in press, using its powers of subpoena and arrest if needed; commission head, Barney Pityana, says probe is aimed at spurring debate about nature, meaning and incidence of racism he holds is endemic in nation; some editors see carefully timed effort to keep news organizations from criticizing Pres Nelson Mandela's Government on eve of national elections (M)
Date: 17 November 1998
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
Peter Roth, head of programming for Fox television network, announces his resignation, saying he plans to start a production company; Fox, News Corp subsidiary, is expected to appoint Doug Herzog, president of cable channel Comedy Central, as its new head of programming; shift may reflect conclusion of broadcast networks that they need to change their approach to programming; Scott Sassa, recently named president of NBC's entertainment division, along with Herzog, built their careers at entertainment operations of cable networks; Fox's move was not entirely unexpected because the network started the television season in September with several weeks of disappointing ratings and was quickly forced to cancel four comedies; photos (M)
Date: 16 November 1998
By John Markoff
John Markoff
John Chambers of Cisco Systems and Larry Ellison of Oracle, in what could be new trend among computer industry chiefs, have both invited reporters to their homes for private social events in last two weeks (M)
Date: 17 November 1998
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Federal Judge John G Koeltl, less than day after pressmen's job action kept four out of five copies of yesterday's New York Post from homes and newsstands, issues temporary restraining order barring union representing pressmen from further interrupting publication of paper (M)
Date: 17 November 1998
By Tim Weiner and Philip Shenon
Tim Weiner
Reconstruction of weekend's events based on interviews with several participants indicates Pres Clinton called off missile attack on Iraq only minutes before it was set to begin on advice of national security adviser Samuel R Berger; Berger apparently responded to CNN report that Iraqis sent letter to United Nations agreeing to let arms inspectors resume work; Defense Sec William S Cohen apparently opposed delaying attack, holding Iraqi letter was too late and too confused; aides to State Sec Madeleine K Albright, who was en route to Asian economic summit conference, said she wanted attack to proceed; photo (M)
Date: 16 November 1998
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Publisher Peter Ridder spurred dispute at Charlotte, NC, Observer with his bid to endorse Sen Lauch Faircloth for re-election over opposition of top editors, all editorial writers, and over 40 journalists, who favored Democratic candidate and eventual victor, John Edwards; newspaper's decision not to endorse candidate generated strongly-worded round-robin open letter from editors and reporters (M)
Date: 16 November 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Pilots union at Federal Express will begin informational picketing on Nov 16 as pilots move toward possible holiday-season strike against world's largest air-freight company (S)
Date: 17 November 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Allmerica Financial Corp, an insurance and financial services company, to pay $195.9 million for the 16.8 percent of the Citizens Corp that it does not already own; both companies are based in Worcester, Mass (S)