As television news enters the post-Lewinsky era, Fox pushes a 'powerful prime time' campaign.
Date: 08 March 1999
By Stuart Elliott
Stuart Elliott
Advertising column describes efforts of 24-hour cable news television networks to lure viewers in post-Monica Lewinsky era; says goal of CNN, MSNBC and Fox News is to tempt channel surfers to tune in whether or not there is major continuing news story being covered (M)
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Word for Word/News of the North; How Canadians Stopped Worrying And Laughed at a Journalistic Bomb
Date: 07 March 1999
By Anthony Depalma
Anthony Depalma
Excerpts from inaccurate National Post front-page article on Feb 12 and humorous follow-up articles from other Canadian newspapers; National Post article said US Army officials expect that Canada would be first target of North Korean nuclear attack if tensions were to escalate between Communist power and US; photo (M)
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Archives Web Site
Date: 07 March 1999
By Elsa Brenner
Elsa Brenner
Westchester Archives Web site is awarded Family History Favorite Award by Ancestry Daily News (S)
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Media Talk; After the Interview: The Good and the Tawdry
Date: 08 March 1999
By Lawrie Mifflin
Lawrie Mifflin
MSNBC promotions urge viewers watching Barbara Walters's interview with Monica S Lewinsky on ABC to use picture-in-a-picture mode to also view MSNBC's Hockenberry; Joe Klein, journalist, appears on Ted Koppel's Nightline program to criticize media coverage of Clinton-Lewinsky story; Koppel says blame belongs with Clinton, not media; photo (M)
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Ideas & Trends; You Must Remember This. Never Mind.
Date: 07 March 1999
By Lynn Harris and J. D. Heiman
Lynn Harris
Lynn Harris and J D Heiman humorous list of 100 least significant news stories of century; photos (M)
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Xerox to Expand Capabilities of Copiers
Date: 08 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Xerox Corp will expand its lines of machines that can print, copy, fax and scan in its battle to take market share from Hewlett-Packard Co and Canon Inc (S)
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At Discover Brokerage, An On-Line Strategy
Date: 07 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter's Discover Brokerage Direct plans to use advertising, rather than buying up Internet rivals, to try to reverse drop in its share of on-line brokerage business; its market share has fallen to 3.3 percent (M)t
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 07 March 1999
Japanese military forces rescue two British balloonists forced by bad weather to ditch off Japan during round-the-world attempt; two are Andy Elson and Colin Prescot (S)
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 08 March 1999
INTERNATIONAL A3-9 Yeltsin Rebukes Primakov Over Handling of Economy President Boris N. Yeltsin has delivered a warning to Prime Minister Yevgeny M. Primakov, accusing him of being too ''complacent'' about the economy and threatening yet another Government shake-up. A4 Russia vowed to punish the separatist Chechnya region unless Chechen kidnappers quickly released a high-ranking Russian officer, a threat that represented the most serious deterioration in relations since a peace settlement was concluded more than two years ago. A5
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Teacher Is Charged With Raping Student
Date: 07 March 1999
Police charge Brother Christopher Shannon with raping one of his sixth-grade students in empty classroom at Immaculate Conception Junior High School in South Bronx on Feb 9, 1996 (S)
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