Ex-MTV Executive Loses Contract Case
Date: 05 February 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
MTV Networks, unit of Viacom Inc, wins its court bid to keep Richard Cronin, former MTV executive, from joining rival Fox Kids network until July; MTV sued Fox Kids, its parent, the News Corp, and Cronin last year; Cronin, who developed TV Land classics network for MTV's Nickelodeon, broke his contract to stay at MTV until June 30 when he agreed to become chief executive of Fox Kids and Family Channel in October; Justice Herman Cahn sides with MTV and orders Cronin to stay away from Fox until June 30 (S)
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Man in the News: Gregory Weldon Meeks; Master of the Political Balancing Act
Date: 05 February 1998
By Jonathan P. Hicks
Jonathan Hicks
Man in the News biographical profile of Gregory Weldon Meeks, victor in contentious, five-candidate campaign for House seat in Queens, NY, vacated by Rep Floyd Flake; photo (M)
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TV Notes; Tuning Out the Scandal
Date: 04 February 1998
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
News program ratings have not soared during two weeks of blanket coverage of sexual misconduct allegations against Pres Clinton (S)
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Judge Urged to Lift Order on Secrecy
Date: 05 February 1998
Lawyers for New York Times and several other news organizations challenge far-reaching secrecy order imposed by Judge Susan Webber Wright in Paula Corbin Jones's sexual harassment suit against Pres Clinton (S)
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Focus Turns Elsewhere In Newspapers and on TV
Date: 04 February 1998
By Janny Scott
Janny Scott
Other news events are distracting news media from intense focus on Pres Clinton's ties with Monica S Lewinsky; lull comes at time of few new disclosures in case and as media seems to be winding down from frenzy of self-flagelation over what many saw as excessive coverage (M)
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TV Notes; Dan Rather's Thwarted Travel
Date: 04 February 1998
By Lawrie Mifflin
Lawrie Mifflin
Dan Rather, who for weeks has been giddy about going to his first Olympics, will instead remain at his CBS News anchor desk in New York, to handle any breaking news about Iraq or sexual misconduct allegations against Pres Clinton (S)
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Investigators in Reuters Case Met With Computer Consultant Months Ago
Date: 05 February 1998
By Kurt Eichenwald
Kurt Eichenwald
Executive with Cyberspace Research was confronted several months ago by Federal law enforcement officials investigating whether company was commissioned by subsidiary of Reuters Holdings PLC to steal information electronically from rival, Bloomberg LP; contact between Government and Cyberspace executive suggests that at least some people working with company could have been cooperating with Federal investigators of Reuters Analytics Inc, before it was disclosed last week; prosecutors have been investigating for as long as a year to determine whether Reuters took part in scheme to steal proprietary information maintained in Bloomberg's central computers; they are examining whether that information was later improperly incorporated into products like Reuters 3000, which as been widely viewed in financial data industry as product most likely to compete with Bloomberg terminal (L)
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The Press's Mea Culpa Epidemic
Date: 04 February 1998
Editorial deplores what it sees as unwarranted self-flagellation by press for its coverage of Monica S Lewinsky's alleged sexual relationship with Pres Clinton; holds story belongs before public; deplores lax sourcing and inaccurate details (M)
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2 Paparazzi Convicted Of Stalking Celebrities
Date: 04 February 1998
By Bernard Weinraub
Bernard Weinraub
Judge Robert A Altman finds two photographers guilty of false imprisonment for hounding Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver, and blocking their cars as they drove son to school in Santa Monica; Giles Harrison and Andrew O'Brien could face up to two years in prison; Altman notes that Shriver was pregnant at the time and Schwarzenegger had just left hospital after open-heart surgery (S)
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LYCOS BUYS WEB SITE WITH A MILLION CUSTOMERS
Date: 04 February 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Lycos Inc acquires closely held Tripod Inc for $58 million in stock, adding an on-line community of one million members to its Internet directory service (S)
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