18 januari 1997 was een zaterdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♑. Het was de 17e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
Als je op deze dag bent geboren, ben je 29 jaar oud. Je laatste verjaardag was op zondag 18 januari 2026, 148 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op maandag 18 januari 2027, in 216 dagen. Je hebt 10.740 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 257.774 uur, of ongeveer 15.466.479 minuten, of ongeveer 927.988.740 seconden.
Date: 19 January 1997
By Mirta Ojito
Mirta Ojito
Article on Spanish media in New York City, where there are 56 Spanish-language publications, two local television stations affiliated with networks and five radio stations that serve New York City and surrounding area; studies have shown that Hispanic people rely more on television and radio for information than English-speaking audiences (M)
Date: 19 January 1997
By Somini Sengupta
Somini Sengupta
South Asian community's news media in New York City devote lion's share of their resources to matters on the subcontinent; rumors that Imran Khan, former Pakistani cricket star turned candidate for prime minister, has illegitimate child received intense coverage last week; photo (L)
Date: 19 January 1997
By Max Frankel
Max Frankel
Max Frankel Word & Image column on progressive collapse of walls that traditionally separated news from propaganda; notes that George Stephanopoulos, an architect of Bill Clinton's Presidency, has been hired by ABC News to offer news analysis about the Clinton Administration; says if senses are so dulled to journalistic conflicts of interest, it must be because news organizations, particularly television talk shows, so routinely confuse dispassionate news analysis with expression of partisan opinion; says television is increasingly lax about old standards because someone like Stephanopolous brings promise of immediate lift in ratings and in profits; says perhaps that is why he was also offered job as teacher and scholar at Columbia University; drawing (M)
Date: 19 January 1997
By Christopher S. Wren
Christopher Wren
Unraveling of Soviet Union released tidal wave of educated emigrants, thousands of whom settled in Brooklyn's Brighton Beach and other vibrant Russian enclaves; their intellectual curiosity and growing affluence have given rise, by one count, to 38 Russian-language newspapers, plus cable television channel, the Russian Television Network; Moscow newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets has published a New York weekly, B Novom Svetye, since 1995 (M)
Date: 19 January 1997
By Celia W. Dugger
Celia Dugger
Number of foreign-language newspapers has soared as more than half a million immigrants have moved to New York City in 1990's; proliferation of ethnic press outlets has produced rambunctious, intensely competitive war for news, readers and advertisers that is going on almost completely outside the ken of those of city's residents who speak only English; Mayor Giuliani's immigrant affairs office does not communicate with all ethnic media, but even so, it deals with staggering number: 143 newspapers and magazines, 22 television stations and 12 radio stations, in more than 30 languages; week's worth of reading, watching and listening to ethnic news media that serve handful of city's many immigrant groups found their preoccupations to be quite different from those of mainstream press; photos (L)
Date: 19 January 1997
By Jane H. Lii
Jane Lii
Tens of thousands of Chinese living in New York City are divided by old-world politics, a reality reflected in pages of New York's three major Chinese-language dailies: The World Journal, published by United Daily News group, based in Taiwan; Sing Tao Daily, published by Sing Tao Ltd, based in Hong Kong, and The China Press, run by group of local investors; photo (M)
Date: 19 January 1997
Thirty or more stations provide music and news to New York's immigrant population by renting secondary transmission channel, known as subcarrier signal or a sideband, from FM station; listeners must install crystal chips in their radios to pick up the signal; no one knows exactly how many of these stations exist; Federal government does not regulate their programming (S)
Date: 19 January 1997
By Jon Katz
Jon Katz
Excerpt from Jon Katz's book, Virtuous Reality, on old and new media; says the 'mediaphobe' defines media narrowly: news comes from a thick, sober daily newspaper, read front to back, or from evening newscast, with stories presented in order of descending importance; holds Americans both love and embrace new cultural machinery despite continued growth of traditional media; says VCR's, computers and CD-ROM's are among besting-selling consumer products in American history; holds emergence of new media and broader definitions of culture do not mean that newspapers, books publishing and traditional television newscasts will or should vanish; drawings (L)
Date: 19 January 1997
By Garry Pierre-Pierre
Garry Pierre-Pierre
Article on Haitian media in New York City that serves estimated 500,000 Haitians in the region (S)
Date: 18 January 1997
By Francis X. Clines
Francis Clines
Democrats fear that House ethics committee findings and recommended punishment of Speaker Newt Gingrich will slip from the news and from public attention as Washington and nation gear up for Pres Clinton's inauguration; photo (M)