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Date: 01 February 1998
By James M. Naughton
James
Op-Ed aricle by James M Naughton, former White House correspondent for The New York Times, sharply criticizes news media's rush to judgment in first hours of reporting allegations concerning Pres Clinton and Monica Lewinsky; points out that making sound judgments is responsibility of every journalist at every level in broadcast, print or new media (S)
Date: 01 February 1998
By Janny Scott
Janny Scott
Media coverage of White House sex scandal appears to many in journalism to have blurred boundaries between mainstream and tabloid news; newspapers and news shows have been dominated by story, rife with sensational elements of tabloid news, based heavily on anonymous sources and colored in many instances by what journalists themselves say is speculation and hype; many journalists feel mainstream newspapers have lowered their standards in face of information free-for-all that has resulted from rise of Internet, talk radio and 24-hour cable news (M)
Date: 01 February 1998
By Max Frankel
Max Frankel
11 o'clock dreams and realities**Max Frankel column on scripting his ideal 11:00 PM local news broadcast in New York; lauds Bill Bauman's news program in Orlando, Fla, as heroic effort to eschew shallow and inflammatory stories in favor of quality coverage; photo (M)
Date: 01 February 1998
By Jane Fritsch
Jane Fritsch
Analysis of scandalous allegations concerning Pres Clinton and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky; engine driving story is, for the most part, Newsweek magazine, with precious few facts on offer; salacious reports are of murky provenance, or come from third-hand, anonymous or other dubious sources (S)
Date: 02 February 1998
By Francis X. Clines
Francis Clines
William H Ginsburg, lawyer for former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, appears on all five national Sunday morning talk shows on February 1; photos (M)
Date: 01 February 1998
By Tamar Lewin
Tamar Lewin
Questions of sexual behavior now swirling around White House, and in news media, raise difficult questions for parents of young children given to asking tricky questions; psychologists offer advice (S)
Date: 01 February 1998
By Michael Janofsky
Michael Janofsky
Federal grand jury proceedings regarding Pres Clinton and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky are so secret that even some lawyers and witneses will not reveal their names, which has led to some rather frightening scenes outside Washington, DC, courthouse; photo of Clinton secretary Berry Currie pushing through swarm of journalists; grand jury proceedings explained (M)
Date: 02 February 1998
By Kurt Eichenwald
Kurt Eichenwald
Federal prosecutors obtain more than 100 written communications between American subsidiary of Reuters Holdings PLC and consulting company suspected of being hired to steal information from computers of competitor, Bloomberg LP; they have memos from subsidiary, Reuters Analytics Inc, requesting detailed information about technical programs for analyzing investments; consultant allegedly broke into Bloomberg's corporate computers electronically and obtained information, then passed it to Reuters, sometimes directly to parent company's London headquarters; computer consulting company, whose name is not yet determined, was said to be founded by former Bloomberg employee; Reuters has already placed three executives in subsidiary on paid leave in wake of scandal; from its earliest days, Reuters Analytics has faced accusations that it used unsavory business practices to obtain other companies' technologies (M)
Date: 02 February 1998
By Doreen Carvajal
Doreen Carvajal
Publishers fear books on Clinton sex scandal would not sell well because potential readers of such books have already been inundated with news by watching cable news channels; Laurence J Kirshbaum, chairman of Time Warner Trade publishing, says media cover story so thoroughly that it becomes hard to write something new or intelligent; some publishing houses are trying to capitalize on scandal with novelty books, but most publishers remain leery of stepping into battle mode to 'crash' out instant books about topic; they learned painful lessons from bounty of books published about O J Simpson, many of which did not sell; photos (M)
Date: 02 February 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Indonesian stocks surge to their highest point in over three months on optimism that banking reforms announced by Government will put economy back on track (S)