6 november 2002 was een woensdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♏. Het was de 309e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was George W. Bush.
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Date: 06 November 2002
By Seth Schiesel
Seth Schiesel
News Corporation reports third-quarter revenue increased 11.8 percent, to $3.8 billion; earnings soared to $162 million, or 12 cents an American depository receipt, about double profit in same quarter 2001 (M)
Date: 06 November 2002
By Alessandra Stanley and David D. Kirkpatrick
Alessandra Stanley
Exit surveys that have for three decades guided live television predictions, declaring candidates' fates before polls even close, fall victim to computer problems, forcing media and public to wait for old-fashioned vote counting; networks had braced for problems with upgraded Voter News Service, consortium of news organizations that conducts surveys, and were already wary of projections in wake of 2000 presidential debacle; CNN and Fox call some races by relying on own polling in certain precincts in ten major states, but many races are too close to call; Voter News Service reports problem in elaborate computer programs intended to weigh and analyze polling data from randomly chosen precincts; system also breaks down as field workers feed in local data (M)
Date: 06 November 2002
By Caryn James
Caryn James
Television networks deliver election results at unaccustomed deliberate pace, because of computer problems at Voter News Service, and also to avoid errors of 2000 (S)
Date: 07 November 2002
By Alessandra Stanley
Alessandra Stanley
Ted Savaglio, former CBS executive, is now under scrutiny as director of Voter News Service, company that proved unable to provide reliable data from suveys of voters leaving polls; photo; service, set up in 1993 by major news organizations, had humiliating election night meltdown (M)
Date: 06 November 2002
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
New York City's tabloid circulation contest becomes more competitive, as The New York Post's daily circulation further erodes once-commanding lead of The Daily News; Post's daily circulation for six months ended Sept 30 was 590,000, up 10 percent from same period in 2001; News's daily circulation for same period was 715,000, 2.5 percent below year-earlier statistics; weekday circulation of The New York Times, nation's third-largest paper in daily circulation, increased 0.4 percent during period, to 1,113,000; overall circulation of daily newspapers declined 0.3 percent outside New York City; circulation statistics for Sunday newspapers reveal mixed picture (M)
Date: 07 November 2002
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
Network news executives try find out why Voter News Service, their vote-tabulation system, was so plagued with problems and, even more important, whether it will perform by 2004 presidential election; photo; problems greatly slowed reporting of results and left analysts with little data; system nearly collapsed because of volume of information being fed into main computer, technological flaws and canvassing force that was not diligent enough; telephone operators taking results from more than 1,000 workers around country seemed overwhelmed and some poll takers apparently did not show up at designated precincts (M)
Date: 06 November 2002
By Sarah Lyall
Sarah Lyall
Collapse of court case against Paul Burrell, royal butler accused of stealing hundreds of items belonging to Britain's Princess Diana, has not forestalled disclosure of embarrassing royal secrets; Burrell himself has been fielding offers from British news media, and The Sun has published torrent of revelations said to be based on his 39-page deposition to police (S)
Date: 07 November 2002
By Philip Taubman
Philip Taubman
Philip Taubman Editorial Observer says forces of modernization and liberalization in Saudi Arabia need all help they can get as insular kingdom becomes increasingly open to outside sources of news and information and fresh thinking battles encrusted beliefs; says greatest hope for reform may well be Crown Prince Abdullah
Date: 07 November 2002
By Michael Wines
Michael Wines
Sergei Duvanov, leading journalist and critic of Pres Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan, is reported to be in deteriorating health in sixth day of hunger strike to protest what he calls government effort to frame him on child-rape charges; he was arrested Oct 28, just hours before he was to fly to United States to speak on press freedom and human rights before several organizations; under Nazarbayev's authoritarian rule, many journalists who criticize government have been imprisoned, beaten or threatened, and subjected to legal harassment; several months before Duvanov was arrested on rape charge, he was stabbed and beaten by three attackers who warned that his continued criticism of of Nazarbayev would result in more serious harm (M)
Date: 06 November 2002
By Warren Hoge (NYT)
Warren NYT
Former British spy David Shayler is found guilty of violating Official Secrets Act and is to serve 6 months in jail; sold classified documents that derogatorily depicted British intelligence to new media; photo (S)