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18th of November 2004 News
Notizie come è apparso sulla prima pagina del New York Times il 18 novembre 2004
Release of Future Election Day Poll Results Is to Be Delayed
Date: 19 November 2004
By Jacques Steinberg
Jacques Steinberg
News organizations overseeing polling system that served as an early handicapper of presidential race on Election Day decide to delay release of future races' results by at least three hours; decision is intended to remedy one of main breakdowns associated with new $10 million system: that preliminary results showing Sen John Kerry with apparently sizable lead over Pres Bush began appearing on Internet sites in early afternoon, not long after they had been released, on strictest confidence, to newspaper editors and television producers at 1 pm Eastern time; decision to delay future release of data until at least 4 pm and perhaps as late as 6 pm is made by representatives of six news organizations that monitor system: three main television networks, CNN, Fox News and Associated Press (M)
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Reed Irvine, 82, the Founder of a Media Criticism Group, Dies
Date: 19 November 2004
By Michael T. Kaufman
Michael Kaufman
Reed Irvine, founder of Accuracy in Media, watchdog group dedicated to exposing, challenging and at times bullying those he accused of slanting news coverage from liberal perspective, dies at age 82; photo (M)
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Newsman Who Taped Marine Shooting Captive Keeps Silent
Date: 18 November 2004
By Robert F. Worth
Robert Worth
Kevin Sites, freelance cameraman for NBC News whose videotape of what seems to be marine shooting wounded Iraqi prisoner in Falluja is generating storm of outrage in Arab world, is maintaining silence, holding he wants to continue reporting on incident before commenting; Arab satellite television stations are broadcasting unedited version of tape several times an hour; American commanders say it has given anti-American insurgency huge propaganda victory; many questions about shooting remain unanswered (M)
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Online Award to Times Writer
Date: 19 November 2004
New York Times on Web wins award from Online News Association for commentary by Nicholas D Kristof, Op-Ed columnist for New York Times; association cites Kristof's columns last year in Times about Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and his multimedia presentations on NYTimes.com from Arctic as well as China, Cambodia and Iran; Dan Gillmor, who writes his 'e-Journal' for SiliconValley.com, is given commentary award for Web sites with fewer than 500,000 monthly visitors; awards for general excellence go to BBCNews.com and VenturaCountyStar.com in California; other winners noted (M)
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Sex and The Spectator: Scandals Turn the Tables
Date: 19 November 2004
By Sarah Lyall
Sarah Lyall
British tabloids and their readers are enjoing several sex scandals involving Spectator magazine, latest being editor Boris Johnson's reputed affair with columnist Petronella Wyatt; photos; Johnson is also Conservative member of Parliament and Daily Telegraph columnist whose colorful doings are gleefully followed; office indiscretion last summer had associate editor Rod Liddle leaving wife for 23-year-old receptionist; all three have chronicled their antics and rejected wife, Rachel Royce, now has own column in Daily Maill (London Journal) (M)
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South America Epic Wins the National Book Award
Date: 18 November 2004
By Edward Wyatt
Edward Wyatt
National Book Awards are announced; The News From Paraguay, Lily Tuck's historical epic set in 19th-century South America, wins fiction prize; nonfiction prize is awarded to Kevin Boyle for Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age; poetry prize goes to Door in the Mountain by Jean Valentine; award for young people's literature is won by Pete Hautman for Godless; National Book Foundation presents its annual Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to Judy Blume (M)
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Reporter Convicted for Refusing to Give Identity of a Source
Date: 19 November 2004
By Pam Belluck
Pam Belluck
Jim Taricani, Providence local television reporter, is convicted of criminal contempt for refusing to identify person who leaked him FBI videotape in 2001 related to investigation of government corruption in Providence; Federal District Judge Ernest C Torres pronounces Taricani guilty; Taricani faces possibility of six months in jail when he is sentenced on Dec 9; was convicted in connection with long-running federal investigation called Operation Plunderdome, which resulted in conviction of at least nine city officials, including Mayor Vincent A Cianci; Cianci's top aide, Frank E Corrente, was also convicted on corruption charges, in part from taking $1,000 bribe from businessman who was acting as informant for FBI and was secretly videotaping his transaction with Corrente; someone gave Taricani copy of videotape, and in February 2001, his station broadcast it, prompting Torres to investigate who leaked the tape; photo (M)
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NORTH AMERICAN CHIEF OF VOLVO TO RETIRE
Date: 19 November 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Victor Doolan will retire as North American chief of Volvo in March (S)
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ASBESTOS SETTLEMENT MOVES CLOSER TO APPROVAL
Date: 19 November 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Bankruptcy judge rules that proposed $1.5 billion settlement of asbestos claims between two Halliburton subsidiaries, Kellogg Brown & Root and DII Industries, and insurers is 'fair and reasonable,' moving closer to approval of fund for victims (S)
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IMPATH GETS COURT PERMISSION TO PAY CREDITORS
Date: 18 November 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Impath, which analyzes cancer tests for doctors, wins bankruptcy court permission to pay its unsecured creditors $27 million immediately (S)
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