We Take You Live
Date: 25 October 1998
By Eric Alterman
Eric Alterman
Eric Alterman reviews book Breaking News by Robert MacNeil (M)
Rejouer samedi 24 octobre 1998
Le 24 octobre 1998 était un samedi sous le signe astral du ♏. C'était le 296ème jour de l'année. Le président des États-Unis était William J. (Bill) Clinton.
Si vous êtes né ce jour-là, vous avez 27 ans. Ton dernier anniversaire était le vendredi 24 octobre 2025, il y a 245 jours. Votre prochain anniversaire est le samedi 24 octobre 2026, dans 119 jours. Vous avez vécu 10 107 jours, soit environ 242 574 heures, ou environ 14 554 478 minutes, ou environ 873 268 680 secondes.
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24th of October 1998 News
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Wrestling Insults Fuel Free Speech Case
Date: 24 October 1998
By William Glaberson
William Glaberson
Federal judges in Pennsylvania are poring over observations of Mark Madden, irrepressible pro-wrestling radio commentator in Pittsburgh who acknowledges that essays he writes for callers to his 900-number are often sarcastic or even fictitious; he calls his musings 'outrageous trash talk,' for which callers pay $1.69 a minute; question is: is outrageous trash talk journalism in the eyes of the law? for two years, Federal courts have been considering question in case that puts Madden at center of landmark case over First Amendment rights; issue arose when Madden, in lawsuit involving two biggest wrestling promotion companies in United States, refused to name people who had given him information for insults he delivers on his toll line; Madden is paid $350 a week by World Championship Wrestling, which owns and operates line; Madden contends that WCW's archrival, World Wrestling Federation, is failing financially; photo (M)
Ideas & Trends: Giving Outrage a Face; Breaking a Taboo, Editors Turn to Images of Death
Date: 25 October 1998
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Increasingly, images of the dead are finding their way into print and onto television; reflexes that made graphic death a rarity in newspapers in generation after Vietnam War are being supplanted by willingness to use such images for their emotional impact; the larger the point to be made, the more willing editors have been to use visual horror to make that point; photos (M)
Deaths in Argentina Feed a Taste for Conspiracy
Date: 25 October 1998
By Clifford Krauss
Clifford Krauss
Argentines are treated to barrage of recent news coverage about suspicious deaths; deaths may simply be series of macabre concidences, but news reports have spawned vague suggestions lately that organized crime or Government of Pres Carlos Saul Menem itself is involved and blocking cause of justice; recent deaths of former presidential aide's brother and navy captain were officially attributed to suicide; list of other dead include general and another army officer who were killed in helicopter crash, two other Government and military employees who died in reported criminal assaults, and several more people who reportedly succumbed to heart attacks and brain seizures; even Pres Menem has called for reopening of probe into death of his son, thought to have been killed in helicopter accident three years ago; Menem's former wife has long expressed skepticism that crash was accident; photo (M)
DREYER'S TO CUT JOBS AND SELL SOME OPERATIONS
Date: 24 October 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Inc will cut jobs and sell some operations, taking pretax charges of $60 million to $65 million, to cut costs and return to profitability (S)
APPLIED MATERIALS PLANS $285 MILLION EARNINGS CHARGE
Date: 24 October 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Applied Materials Inc will take charges of $285 million as part of previously disclosed plan to reorganize operations (S)
UNITED VIDEO SELLS $31 MILLION IN GEMSTAR STOCK
Date: 24 October 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
United Video Satellite Group Inc will sell $31 million of shares it holds in Gemstar International Group Ltd, which it sought to take over through $2 billion bid earlier this year (S)
Chairman Resigns At Telecom Italia
Date: 24 October 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Gian Mario Rossignolo, chairman of Telecom Italia SpA, resigns; Berardino Libonati is named chairman (S)
VW Plans Investment In Rolls and Bentley
Date: 24 October 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Volkswagen AG will invest 500 million pounds ($845 million) to develop and increase production of Rolls-Royce and Bentley luxury cars in next five years (S)
Belgium's Biggest Utility In South Korea Accord
Date: 24 October 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Tractebel SA, largest utility in Belgium, agrees in principle to buy 75 percent of gas distribution business of Hanjin Engineering and Construction Co of South Korea; Tractebel will become first foreign company involved in gas distribution in Korea (S)