2001년 5월 6일은(는) 일요일의 별 기호 아래에 있는 **♉**입니다. 올해의 125일이었습니다. 미국 대통령은 George W. Bush입니다.
이 날에 태어났다면 당신은 25살입니다. 마지막 생일은 2026년 5월 6일 수요일, 34일 전이었습니다. 다음 생일은 2027년 5월 6일 목요일일 후 330입니다. 당신은 9,165일, 약 219,977시간, 약 13,198,662분 또는 약 791,919,720초 동안 살았습니다.
Date: 07 May 2001
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Associated Press board has reluctantly agreed to sell some national and international news on Web; AP president Louis D Boccardi, responding to members concerns, says AP will not sell state and local news, AP's unique asset; says items for sale to narrow-interest sites will be product of AP journalists, not culled from newspapers (M)
Date: 07 May 2001
By Jim Rutenberg and Geraldine Fabrikant
Jim Rutenberg
Rival media companies brace for Rupert Murdoch to become even fiercer competitor in American television industry if his News Corp's acquires DirecTV along with rest of General Motors' Hughes Electronics division; DirecTV, fast-growing satellite television service, has become force in arena once fully controlled by cable industry; would give new leverage to News Corp, already TV power with its Fox network; table of Hughes holdings (M)
Date: 07 May 2001
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Denver Post and rival Denver Rocky Mountain News, which slashed prices to spur circulation, face big circulation declines in wake of combining business operations and raising prices; circulation graphs; photo (S)
Date: 07 May 2001
By Tina Rosenberg
Tina Rosenberg
Editorial Observer by Tina Rosenberg cites Guatemala as glaring example of Latin American country with media dominated by single owners; Angel Gonzalez owns all four of country's main broadband TV stations, making him kingmaker; candidate he favored, Alfonso Portillo, is now president, and he has named relative of Gonzalez's to high government post; Gonzalez has canceled popular television show critical of Portillo's government, and his stations are involved in campaigns of personal attacks and threats against two Guatemalan newspapers that accused government of irregularities; technically, Gonzalez's control of television is illegal, but Pres Portillo has done nothing about it (M)
Date: 07 May 2001
By Don Kirk
Don Kirk
New battle is under way in South Korea between government and press; critics say government is trying to stop big three papers from criticizing liberal Kim Dae Jung, whose popularity is waning under their attacks; ostensibly, all country's 23 news media companies are under investigation for possible violations of tax and fair trade laws; executives of three biggest-selling papers say they are being singled out; together they control 70 percent of newspaper sales in country; government recently extended deadline on tax probe of three papers, action seen as evidence of its determination to find evidence to bring charges (M)
Date: 06 May 2001
By Mark Landler
Mark Landler
Fortune magazine is sponsoring Fortune Global Forum in Hong Kong, bringing together corporate titans and former Pres Bill Clinton, but conference is marred for Fortune's parent company, AOL Time Warner, because newsstand sales of Time magazine, another unit, have been banned in China since early March, shortly after magazine published article on Falun Gong spiritual movement in Hong Kong; Falun Gong, which is banned in China but not in Hong Kong, will hold demonstration three blocks from conference to protest speech by Pres Jiang Zemin (M)
Date: 06 May 2001
By RENÉE MONTAGNE
Renée MONTAGNE
Excerpts from newspaper reports, letters and eyewitness accounts related to nation's last state-sanctioned public execution, which took place in Owensboro, Ky, in 1936; Rainey Bethea, young black man, was hanged for rape and murder of a white woman, and execution became full-scale media spectacle because, for first time, hangman was going to be a woman, Sheriff Florence Thomson, who ultimately delegated job to a man; photo (M)
Date: 06 May 2001
By Jesse McKinley
Jesse McKinley
The Onion, nation's best-known satirical newspaper, takes up residence in New York, as nine staffers, led by editor-in-chief Robert Siegel, relocate from Wisconsin heartland; photos (M)
Date: 07 May 2001
By Roger Cohen
Roger Cohen
Analysis: vote that ousted United States from United Nations Human Rights Commission was prompted by irritation among European nations at themes of Bush administration; torrent of hostile articles in Europe has greeted Pres Bush's first three months in office; their chief theme has been arrogance of what German weekly Der Spiegel calls 'snarling, ugly Americans'; diplomats attribute embarrrassing snub to United States to seeming absence of 'dialogue and respect' in Bush administration's approach to outside world; photo (M)
Date: 07 May 2001
By Benjamin Weiser
Benjamin Weiser
Christine Cornell drawing of Kenyan witness in trial of four men charged with joining conspiracy to bomb two United States Embassies in Africa is run on CNN Web site with face deliberately left blank; witness, who is in witness protection program, feared for safety of his children in Kenya; photo (M)