Schwarzenegger Prompts Role Reversal Among Media
Date: 06 October 2003
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
Mainstream news organizations report sensational allegations that Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is running for governor in California, groped women over the years, while supermarket tabloids, for whom story would appear a natural, are largely silent; mainstream news executives say compressed gubernatorial campaign in California forces them to present potentially explosive articles closer to Election Day than they might prefer; tabloid executive say they have not found any news to break about allegations, which they say are not new; Schwarzenegger also has ties to fortunes of Weider Publications, which is now part of American Media, which owns a number of tabloids (M)
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As It Is Written So It Is Viewed
Date: 05 October 2003
By Sarah Hepola
Sarah Hepola
Sarah Hepola article compares news reports about Private Jessica Lynch with events as depicted in TV movie based on event (S)
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Sports Fan Is the Prize, Or the Victim, In Cable Fight
Date: 06 October 2003
By David D. Kirkpatrick and Geraldine Fabrikant
David
Television sports fans in cities served by Cox Cable face possible loss of games because of company's refusal to pay fees demanded by Fox Sports and ESPN for their coveted programming; standoff comes on heels of fight between Cablevision and YES Network that deprived New Yorkers of Yankee games in 2002 and feud this spring between Fox Sports and Time Warner in Minnesota and Orlando; fans also face higher monthly fees; News Corp, parent of Fox Sports, and Walt Disney, parent of ESPN, each count on sports networks as pivotal source of financial growth (M)
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Mr. Schwarzenegger Gets a Pass
Date: 05 October 2003
By Katha Pollitt
Katha Pollitt
Katha Pollitt Op-Ed article takes note of strangely subdued reaction to sexual harassment charges against Arnold Schwarzenegger as California's recall campaign draws to close; demands to know why media is giving free pass to man who seems to have long history of contempt for women (M)
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ESPN Responds, but Its Leaders Hide
Date: 06 October 2003
By Richard Sandomir
Richard Sandomir
Richard Sandomir TV Sports column discusses Sunday NFL Countdown analysts, who apologize on air for not reacting to Rush Limbaugh's assertion that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb is overrated and represents media's desire to see successful black quarterback; ESPN executives have been quiet since Limbaugh resigned under fire from NFL, media and other pundits, who called his comments racist (M)
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Ideas & Trends; Leaks and the Courts: There's Law, but Little Order
Date: 05 October 2003
By Adam Liptak
Adam Liptak
Conventional wisdom that leak investigations never go anywhere discussed in light of search for who gave columnist Robert Novak name of CIA agent Valerie Plame after her husband, Joseph C Wilson IV, criticized Bush administration's Iraq policy; reporters' sources have in fact been exposed and punished occasionally and Supreme Court, in its only direct opinion on question, ruled that reporters have almost no protection from at least grand jury subpoenas; earlier cases recalled; photos (M)
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Page Two: Sept. 28-Oct. 4; THE READING FILE
Date: 05 October 2003
Reading File quotes Teresa Blythe's article on what Americans would know about God if their only source of information were television shows like Joan of Arcadia; quotes Alex Gourevitch's article on US occupation's response to Iraq's sometimes hostile emerging media; notes redesigned Hershey's milk chocolate bar wrapper, as described by New York Times art director Steven Heller; photo (S)
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Who's Shallow Throat?
Date: 06 October 2003
By William Safire
William Safire
William Safire Op-Ed column offers glossary of jargon on topic of government leaks in order to explain charges and countercharges surrounding Joseph Wilson and his wife, a Central Intelligence operative whose name was revealed in Robert Novak column (M)
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For Media Training, a Focus on Defense
Date: 05 October 2003
By Eilene Zimmerman
Eilene Zimmerman
As public scrutiny of corporate executives continues to intensify, more executives are seeking out training on how to deal with the media.
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Political Points
Date: 05 October 2003
By Michael Janofsky
Michael Janofsky
Political Points column captures moments and anecdotes from campaign trail; results of New York Times/CBS News poll on Iraq war noted; drawings (M)
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