Study Finds More Views Than Facts
Date: 19 February 1998
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Committee of Concerned Journalists reports over 40 percent of early news reports on probe of Pres Clinton's relationship with Monica S Lewinsky consisted of analysis, opinion and speculation, not factual reporting; says over third of reports were attributed to anonymous sources (M)
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Sleaze Journalism? It's an Old Story
Date: 20 February 1998
By Adam Goodheart
Adam Goodheart
Adam Goodheart Op-ed column holds sleaze journalism has long tradition in America, disputing those pundits who now warn that media 'feeding frenzy' represents break from traditions of American journalism; contends scandal-mongers spreading rumors and falsehoods would be return to traditions of American journalism (M)
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Judge Not, Law Schools Demand Of a Magazine That Ranks Them
Date: 19 February 1998
By Jan Hoffman
Jan Hoffman
Law School Admission Council, in mailing signed by 164 of 179 law school deans, scores US News & World Report magazine's annual ranking of schools; deans comment, news conference; table; photo (M)
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The McCurry Confessions
Date: 19 February 1998
Editorial scores White House press secretary Mike McCurry's handling of Pres Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky; holds McCurry has obligation to provide information completely and promptly (M)
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Bad Vibes From the Heartland Launch Fleet of Finger-Pointers
Date: 19 February 1998
By James Bennet
James Bennet
Clinton Administration aides seek to distance self from forum on Iraq at Ohio State University, Columbus, where Clinton's top foreign policy makers took verbal pounding from hecklers, students and worried parents; forum was bonaza for CNN, which moderated discussion and broadcast it live around world (M)
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BLESSINGS CONSIDERS A POSSIBLE SALE OR MERGER
Date: 19 February 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Blessings Corp hires Bowles Hollowell Conner & Co to aid in evaluating strategic alternative to help the company, including possible sale or merger of company (S)
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ADAPTEC SAYS IT WILL BUY A HYUNDAI SUBSIDIARY
Date: 20 February 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Adaptec Inc agrees to buy Symbios Inc, subsidiary of Hyundai Electronics America, for $775 million in cash (S)
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AMERICAN ARCHITECTURAL PLANS TO BUY WEATHER-SEAL
Date: 19 February 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Louisiana-Pacific Corp agrees to sell its Weather-Seal window and door unit to American Architectural Products Corp (S)
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CALGON CARBON CHIEF RESIGNS AND COMPANY MAY BE SOLD
Date: 20 February 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Calgon Carbon Corp says chief executive Colin Bailey has resigned and company might put itself up for sale (S)
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DART BUYS BACK FOUNDING-FAMILY MEMBER'S SHARES
Date: 19 February 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Dart Group Corp buys back all shares held by Ronald Haft, member of company's founding family; ends its two-class common stock structure and adopts shareholder rights plan to thwart unwanted takeover offers (S)
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