Ponovno predvajanje nedelja, 10. januar 1993

Daily News Survivors Torn and Bitter

Date: 10 January 1993

By N. R. Kleinfield

N. Kleinfield

All too many of their friends are gone, their desks now eerily empty, their familiar voices missing. For the people who lost their jobs at The Daily News, life has taken a tortuous turn, but it has been a less than joyous experience to be among the survivors who were retained by the paper's new owner, Mortimer B. Zuckerman. They find themselves thrust into a fragile new world where they are to carry on work they have performed for years or decades in an environment clammy with sadness and anger.

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A Harsh Start to a New Beginning for Winnowed Daily News

Date: 10 January 1993

By Robert D. McFadden

Robert

After two days of canceled editions, missed deadlines and other disruptions caused by a change in ownership and the dismissal of scores of reporters, editors and other staff members, news operations at The Daily News returned to near normal yesterday as a smaller staff got out a full Sunday newspaper. But problems of adjustment were expected to linger. With a smaller staff, news assignments will be made more carefully, editors said. And to minimize problems during the staff's transition this week, publication of the Brooklyn, Queens and suburban sections has been suspended for five days, starting tomorrow.

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BLACKBOARD; Comics Not Just a Joke In Boston

Date: 10 January 1993

By Sharon Cotliar

Sharon Cotliar

A CURBSIDE Santa Claus brandishing an X across his chest and cap sought to fill his contributions kettle as shoppers dashed past. This scene, featured on a recent cover of Boston Comic News, was a commentary on the commercialization that followed the movie "Malcolm X," and Boston High School students quickly grasped it. Reading the paper as part of her classwork, Nicole Bruce, 15, said, "They are making fun of people who wear the clothing but don't know what the X means." Her classmate Natasha Jones, 17, added, "It's an example of satire."

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Hispanic Journalists to Move Convention, Citing Colorado Boycott

Date: 10 January 1993

By Dennis Hevesi

Dennis Hevesi

Defusing a dispute between gay and Hispanic journalists, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists voted yesterday not to hold its annual convention in Denver. The National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association had lobbied the Hispanic group to move its convention after Colorado voters passed a referendum on Nov. 3 prohibiting the state's cities and Legislature from approving anti-discrimination protections for homosexuals. The referendum also voiding existing ordinances extending such protection in Aspen, Boulder and Denver. 'Difficult' Decision Caught in the middle were news organizations, which send executives to the conventions of minority journalists. The battle presented an awkward situation for news executives because many of them have declared that the industry needs to hire more minorities and homosexuals.

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Anchorage Journal; Again, Readers Can Hear Voice of Native Alaska

Date: 11 January 1993

By Timothy Egan

Timothy Egan

Inside a glass cage on the second floor of the Anchorage Museum of History and Art is a Royal Standard typewriter that once belonged to Howard Rock, a legendary Eskimo journalist who died in 1976. On the keys of that old machine Mr. Rock pounded out exposes, editorials and everything in between for the pages of The Tundra Times. One year ago, the paper Mr. Rock helped found seemed headed for museum status, next to his typewriter. The Tundra Times, which has long called itself Alaska's oldest statewide newspaper and is the only journalistic voice for this state's 80,000 aboriginal people, ceased publication in December 1991, a victim of heavy debt.

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Hollywood's New Villains

Date: 11 January 1993

By Roger Rosenblatt

Roger Rosenblatt

Things of importance arrive late at my doorstep, so I only just learned of the diatribe against my trade delivered on the TV sitcom "Hearts Afire." As quoted in The Washington Post, a character on the show explodes at editors of The New Republic, The New Yorker and The Atlantic as "11 little old baby Harvard boys who . . . walk around in this constipated haze of Ivy League smugness, intellectually diddling one another . . . . They're irrelevant, arrogant, snide and cynical and negative and on top of everything else, they're short."

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Viewpoints; Boost America's Sagging Self-Image

Date: 10 January 1993

By David Finn

David Finn

During the campaign, Bill Clinton touched a nerve in the national psyche when he said America should not be a country where parents believe that their children will be less well-off than the parents are. But pollsters have told us that this, indeed, is how many of us feel. It is a frightening self-image and it is totally inconsistent with the way Americans have viewed themselves from the earliest days of our history. America's core values, after all, are optimism, vitality and entrepreneurial spirit. In addition to developing new policies to spur economic growth -- so our children's lives will indeed be better than ours -- America needs Mr. Clinton to help us restore our confidence in ourselves. To do that, he must cultivate a constructive relationship with the media, since whatever his message is, it will be affected by the kind of news coverage he receives. He also must develop a familiarity with the language of symbols. But to make sure his message gets out, Mr. Clinton should do the following:

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Essay; Now: Bet While You Booze

Date: 11 January 1993

By William Safire

William Safire

A pernicious philosophy of something-for-nothing is sweepstaking the country. Politicians push state-sponsored gambling to bilk the poor while publishers back lotteries to deceive the public. Here in the Democratic-dominated state of Maryland, Gov. William ("Bet While You Booze") Schaefer has been visiting restaurants with bars to tout his solution to budget-balancing: keno, a numbers game under state auspices that entices patrons to stare at a television screen above the bar and to try their luck.

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The Invisible Ms. Sabol

Date: 11 January 1993

Q: Do you distrust the press? A: Yes. Next question. With those three little words spoken in an interview a year ago, Barbara Sabol, Commissioner of New York City's vast social services agency, left no doubt whatsoever that the less she saw of the press, the better.

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Tandy Plans to Spin Off Manufacturing Business

Date: 11 January 1993

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

The Tandy Corporation said today that it planned to spin off its manufacturing operations to shareholders and reorganize its retailing operations to place greater emphasis on its two superstore businesses. The move ends the combined manufacturing and retailing strategy that has made Tandy virtually unique among consumer electronics companies.

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