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21st of May 1991 News
Nieuws zoals het verscheen op de voorpagina van de New York Times op 21 mei 1991
Murdoch Fills Post in U.S.
Date: 22 May 1991
AP
Leslie Hinton, a former associate editor of The Boston Herald, has been chosen to head the American publishing arm of Rupert Murdoch's media holdings. Mr. Hinton, 47 years old, will become president and chief executive of the News America Publishing Corporation, which includes The Herald, The San Antonio Express-News, TV Guide and Mirabella magazine. Mr. Hinton, who joined Mr. Murdoch's News Corporation as a journalist in Australia in 1959, will replace Martin Singerman, 64, who will retire in November. Mr. Singerman will remain as a director of News America for an indefinite period, the company said.
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Bill Would Prohibit Naming Rape Victims
Date: 21 May 1991
A State Senator said today that he would introduce legislation making it a crime for news organizations to disclose the name of a rape victim. The Senator, David A. Paterson, a Manhattan Democrat, said his action had been prompted by the recent publication of the name of the woman who said she had been raped at the Kennedy family compound in Palm Beach, Fla. The New York Times and NBC both disclosed the woman's name and have been criticized.
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FNN Merges With a Rival And Signs Off After 10 Years
Date: 22 May 1991
By Barnaby J. Feder
Barnaby Feder
Surrounded by inventory tags on their equipment, peppered by calls from well-wishers and in many cases laden with worries about future employment, the reporters and staff of the Financial News Network soldiered through their last day on the air yesterday. The 10-year-old cable news operation, aimed primarily at small investors, was merged last night into its rival, NBC's Consumer News and Business Channel. NBC acquired FNN after a tumultuous bidding war that ended last week when a Federal bankruptcy judge ruled that NBC's $154.3 million offer was better than a nominally higher bid from Dow Jones & Company. FNN was put up for sale last November. The network sought protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code in March.
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Drug Traffickers Free 2 Bogota Journalists
Date: 21 May 1991
AP
In gesture of peace to a Government moving to ban the extradition of drug traffickers, the Medellin cocaine cartel today released two prominent journalists it kidnapped last year. Francisco Santos, news editor of Colombia's best-selling newspaper, El Tiempo, and Maruja Pachon, a former television news producer, were freed tonight in the capital.
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CNBC Plays On Theme Of Merger
Date: 22 May 1991
By Stuart Elliott
Stuart Elliott
ONE of the most eagerly watched recent business mergers involved two companies that usually cover mergers, rather than participate in them. Now, the results of that transaction are the subject of an ambitious new advertising campaign aimed at three target audiences simultaneously. Starting today, a print, television and radio campaign details the aftermath of the long-running takeover battle for Financial News Network Inc. NBC's Consumer News and Business Channel triumphed in a bidding war for FNN, which dominated CNBC in a two-network race in the growing cable television market for business news. CNBC won when a partnership of Dow Jones & Company and Group W Satellite Communications withdrew Friday from the three-month battle.
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Why Blindfold the Camera?
Date: 22 May 1991
California is so eager to keep its executions off television that the state has shut out all the press, prompting two justifiable counterattacks. The ban has been challenged in Federal District Court in San Francisco by KQED, the public television station, and in the Legislature, with a bill that would permit filming of executions, though only with the condemned person's consent. These rapid responses reflect justifiable outrage. The state has sequestered an important, controversial government process without any compelling reason. That seems an abridgment of the First Amendment, one the courts and the Legislature would be wise to strike down.
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Mistrial Is Declared in Capital Lawsuit Involving a Journalist
Date: 21 May 1991
AP
A judge declared a mistrial today in a lawsuit brought by six police officers who sought to compel a Washington Post reporter to disclose her source of information about an unsuccessful drug raid. The judge also said he would lift the contempt citation against the reporter. The judge, Richard Levie of Superior Court, set Oct. 21 for a new trial of the reporter, Linda Wheeler.
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Beijing Marks 40 Years of Tibet's 'Liberation'
Date: 22 May 1991
By Nicholas D. Kristof
Nicholas
Somewhere in the far west of China, nestled in the Himalayas, is a Shangri-La brimming with contentment and human rights -- or so say the Chinese newspapers these days. It is Tibet, although it does not entirely resemble the Tibet that Western visitors describe. The Chinese newspapers are full of reports about progress there, as China on Wednesday celebrates the 40th anniversary of what it calls "the peaceful liberation of Tibet."
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 22 May 1991
INTERNATIONAL A3-16 Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in a powerful explosion as he walked toward a platform at a rally near Madras. The former Prime Minister of India, he hoped to return to power in this week's elections. Page A1 Mr. Gandhi swept through the crowd, a new up-close style of campaigning that clearly posed risks. But he said he had no choice. A correspondent with him recounts his last interview, followed by a blast and the wails of shocked bystanders. A1
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 21 May 1991
International A3-11 Soviet legislators adopted a measure granting Soviet citizens the right to travel and emigrate freely, but the bill will not take effect fully until January 1993, much later than its sponsors had hoped. Page A1
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