News Media Quandary Over Showing Graphic Images of Abuse
Date: 11 May 2004
By David Carr
David Carr
News organizations wrestle with how many and how much of graphic photographs of American soldiers torturing and humiliating Iraqi prisoners they should show, and their decisions are drawing controversy of their own; some critics accuse news organizations of serving antiwar agenda and endangering troops and Americans overseas by showing such shocking images; most of broadcast networks and cable news channels have shown many of images; Fox News Channel is using them less and less, and Bill O'Reilly , host on Fox, suggests that pictures will be used to 'promote violence against Americans'; David Remnick, editor of New Yorker, which published two stores about prisoner abuse by Seymour M Hersh, defends use of images (M)
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National Briefing | South: Mississippi: Suit Over Scalia Tapes
Date: 11 May 2004
By Ariel Hart (NYT)
Ariel NYT
Associated Press and Hattiesburg American sue US Marshals Service in Federal District Court in Mississippi for taking reporters' tapes of speech by US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and demanding they be erased; are seeking $1,000 each, declaration that actions were unconstitutional and order forbidding service from seizing recorders from working reporters (S)
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Protests Spread of Nielsen Plan To Alter Local Ratings System
Date: 10 May 2004
By Raymond Hernandez
Raymond Hernandez
Coalition of political and community leaders that helped force Nielsen Media Research to postpone changes in way it gathers data for local television programming in New York plans to hold news conferences and rallies in Chicago and Los Angeles in bid to dissuade company from changing its rating system in those cities; holds new rating system would severely undercount black and Hispanic viewers; Nielsen dismisses protests as drive orchestrated by News Corp's Fox television stations and their public relations firms (M)
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FIRST TRIAL SET TO BEGIN MAY 19 IN ABUSE IN IRAQ
Date: 10 May 2004
By Dexter Filkins
Dexter Filkins
Army Specialist Jeremy Sivits will be first American soldier to face court-martial in abuse of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison; military will permit broad public access to trial and will invite Arab news media, in effort to address outrage over abuse scandal; officials say Sivits, military policeman, took some of photographs of Iraqi prisoners that captured abuse as it unfolded; he is one of seven American soldiers to face criminal charges; his trial date is May 19; speed with which his trial is announced, and type of proceedings he faces, suggests that he has reached deal with prosecutors that could include testifying against his comrades; Brig Gen Mark Kimmitt says trial might be held in Baghdad's huge convention center, in anticipation of intense interest from around world; says military is mindful of need to have Arab news media see American justice being carried out; photo (M)
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Festivals of Certitude In Land of Red and Blue
Date: 11 May 2004
By Rick Lyman
Rick Lyman
Campaign rallies for Sen John Kerry and Pres Bush show how truly different Republican states and Democratic states are, and how in other ways they are oddly alike; each side focuses on themes of war and prosperity, each praises American troops and each pledges allegiance to flag; each has almost unshakable certainty that its cause is nation's only hope, and that its party is party of optimism, unlike other side; bursts of anger are easily produced by dropping name of Hillary Rodham Clinton to Republicans, or Atty Gen John Ashcroft to Democrats; presiding over overheated fractiousness are teams of political and media professionals; scenes at Kerry and Bush rallies described in detail; photos (L)
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CANTOR FITZGERALD NAMES A CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Date: 11 May 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Cantor Fitzgerald and its ESpeed electronic bond-trading unit say Jeffrey Chertoff, who serves as chief financial office of both companies, is resigning and that James Ryan will succeed him as chief financial officer at Cantor; Ryan will serve as interim chief executive officer of ESpeed until it finds successor (S)
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DANAHER ACQUIRING HARRIS UNIT FOR ABOUT $50 MILLION
Date: 11 May 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Danaher Corp agrees to buy telecommunications-testing product lines of Harris Corp for about $50 million (S)
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GEORGIA-PACIFIC SELLS ASSETS TOTALING $1.4 BILLION
Date: 11 May 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Georgia-Pacific Corp sells assets for total of $1.4 billion that will be used to reduce debt (S)
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LIBERTY MEDIA POSTS A $10 MILLION LOSS IN QUARTER
Date: 11 May 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Liberty Media Corp reports first-quarter loss of $10 million compared with net income of $132 million year earlier; reported sales rose more than fourfold, to $2.4 billion, because Liberty is including results of QVC shopping network, which has owned in full since September (S)
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EXECUTIVE DROPS STATE AUTO BID AND SELLS PART OF STAKE
Date: 11 May 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Insurance executive Gregory Shepard drops his bid to buy eight million shares of State Auto Financial Corp and instead will sell one million shares to financier Carl Icahn for $13 per share (S)
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