News Media Try to Sort Out Policy on Graphic Images
Date: 13 September 2001
BY Jim Rutenberg and Felicity Barringer
Jim Rutenberg
News media are making hard decisions in wake of terrorist attacks about which images to show, process complicated by wealth of graphic images of deaths of Americans from camera crews, news photographers and amateur video makers; photo of man falling headfirst to his death from World Trade Center, widely used in newspapers around nation, has spurred some angry reactions; some television networks decided not to show live images of people jumping from buildings (M)
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From Pundits And Polls, Talk of War Fills the Air
Date: 14 September 2001
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
Appraisal of television coverage of terrorist attack against World Trade Center and Pentagon (M)
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F.C.C. Proposals About Cable TV
Date: 14 September 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Federal Communications Commission proposes alternatives to limit on cable television ownership and begins reviewing ban on ownership of newspaper and broadcast station within one city (S)
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Bristol Has New Chairman
Date: 14 September 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Bristol-Myers Squibb president and chief executive, Peter Dolan, is named chairman, succeeding Charles Heimbold, now US ambassador to Sweden (S)
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World Business Briefing | Europe: France: Insurer Posts Gain
Date: 14 September 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
AXA, one of world's biggest insurers, expects destruction of World Trade Center to cost it $300 million to $400 million this year; says first-half profit rose 12 percent; net income increased to 1.22 billion euros ($1.11 billion) from restated 1.09 billion euros year earlier; photo (S)
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Ace Bailey, 53, Hockey Scout and Player
Date: 13 September 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Garnet (Ace) Bailey, scout for Los Angeles Kings of National Hockey League and former player himself, dies when hijacked jet crashes into World Trade Center; he was 53 (S)
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Prices of Imported Goods Fell in August
Date: 14 September 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Prices of imported goods in US fell 0.1 percent in August after declining revised 1.5 percent in July; excluding petroleum, import prices decreased 0.4 percent after 1 perent drop previous month (S)
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U.S. Current Account Deficit Narrowed in Latest Quarter
Date: 13 September 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Commerce Department says US current account deficit narrowed in second quarter as slowing economies around world reduced level of trade; current account shortfall shrank to $106.5 billion in period after narrowing to revised $111.8 billion in first quarter (M)
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G.E. and Honeywell Appeal Europe's Rejection of Deal
Date: 13 September 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
European Court of Justice says General Electric Co and Honeywell International Inc have appealed European Commission's rejection of their $45 billion merger; court has never overturned merger ruling by commission (M)
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No Middle Ground
Date: 14 September 2001
By R. W. Apple Jr
R. Apple
Analysis of aggressive new American foreign policy outlined by Bush administration; nations of world are given stark choice: stand with US against terrorism and deny safe havens to terrorists or face certain prospect of death and destruction; senior officials cast aside niceties of diplomatic language and military restraint that US manifested in dealing with past terrorist attacks; they now talk of campaign that could involve American forces in protracted fighting against countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan and even Pakistan, which occupies vital strategic position south of Afghanistan, where Osama bin Laden is believed to be based; by equating acts of terrorism and even harboring of terrorists with acts of war, administration is going well beyond traditional international practice, saying in effect that there are no neutral states and no clear geographical confines; photo (M)
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