Cards Win $100,000? Sorry, Wrong Number
Date: 21 March 2005
By Andrea Elliott
Andrea Elliott
Daily News Scratch n'Match lottery error mistakenly awards $100,000 to possibly thousands of New Yorkers; photos (M)
Toistetaan sunnuntaina 20. maaliskuuta 2005
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20th of March 2005 News
Uutiset sellaisena kuin ne ilmestyivät New York Timesin etusivulle 20. maaliskuuta 2005
To Stay Competitive, A.P. Gives Clients More Than Just Facts
Date: 21 March 2005
By Katharine Q. Seelye
Katharine Seelye
Associated Press begins offering its newspaper members optional alternative leads to its news reports, leads that seek to draw reader in through imagery, narrative devices, perspective or other creative means rather than just giving basic who, what, when, where and why (S)
Blogged Down
Date: 20 March 2005
By Deborah Solomon
Deborah Solomon
Deborah Solomon interview with Jeff Gannon (aka Jim Guckert), would-be reporter who managed to gain access to White House press briefings for two years and was regularly called on by Scott McClellan, Pres Bush's press secretary, to ask softball questions; photo (M)
THE SCHIAVO CASE: THE VIDEOTAPE -- Critic's Notebook; Provocative Snapshots Of a Many-Layered Issue
Date: 21 March 2005
By Virginia Heffernan
Virginia Heffernan
Virginia Heffernan Critic's Notebook column criticizes television coverage of controversy over Terri Schiavo, brain-damaged Florida women; says news and talk programs have allowed commentators from the political left and right to serve up their preset conclusions and failed to help viewers understand medical and personal questions involved in case; photo (M)
'The New New Journalism': Gonzos for the 21st Century
Date: 20 March 2005
By Jack Shafer
Jack Shafer
Jack Shafer reviews book The New New Journalism: Conversations With America's Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft by Robert S Boynton; drawing (M)
To Cut Online Chatter, Apple Goes to Court
Date: 21 March 2005
By John Markoff
John Markoff
Apple Computer co-founder Steven P Jobs, after years of fostering intense secrecy while at same time orchestrating new product buzz, is suing several Web sites that traffic in Apple news in effort to learn if his employees are leaking product data; decision to sue operators of small Internet fan sites comes as no surprise to many Silicon Valley veterans, who cite his reputation as iconoclastic and confrontational; say move could strengthen his marketing magic by deepening secrecy, and thus buzz, he has tried to maintain around company's future products; stock price graph; photos (M)
Dancing Around Journalistic Issues in a Lawsuit Over Apple Secrets
Date: 21 March 2005
By Jonathan D. Glater
Jonathan
Some lawyers and journalists are worried by Judge James P Kleinberg's ruling allowing Apple Computer to issue subpoena to e-mail service provider for one of Web sites that disclosed details of forthcoming product; Kleinberg rules that whoever disclosed information stole trade secret and was not blowing whistle on matter of compelling public interest; ruling sidesteps question of those on Web sites who disclosed Apple's product details were journalists and eligible to claim any privilege in first place, either under federal law or California's shield law; critics question notion that anything of economic value that is kept secret is by that very fact a trade secret (M)
The Company He Keeps (for Now)
Date: 20 March 2005
By Timothy L. O'Brien
Timothy O'Brien
Profile of Bloomberg LP, financial information and news company, in light of latest management overhaul and comments by Michael R Bloomberg that he plans to sell company someday; timing of any sale will hinge on whether Bloomberg is re-elected mayor of New York in November; estimates of company's value range from $7 billion to $9 billion, putting Bloomberg's 72 percent stake in $5 billion to $6.5 billion range; Peter Grauer, chairman, insists that no sale is imminent; denies that management shuffle, which consolidated his power and stripped Lex Fenwick, chief executive officer, of duties other than continued oversight of Boomberg's sales force, were prompted by friction between him and Fenwick and employees' distaste for Fenwick's leadership; Tom Secunda, who heads research and development, and Matthew Winkler, editor in chief of Bloomberg News, were elevated at same time to equal status with Fenwick, all three of them reporting to Grauer; photos; graph (L)
Wanted: A New Cheerleader for Opera
Date: 20 March 2005
By Anthony Tommasini
Anthony Tommasini
Anthony Tommasini article wonders who will replace famed opera singer Beverly Sills as media personality and public face of opera; in 1980, after slow-starting but sensational 25-year singing career, Sills embarked on second career as most influential administrator for performing arts in New York; article cites her appearances as host of late-night television and says cultural climate that allowed her to thrive so publicly has changed beyond recognition; photos (L)
New Openness in Deciding When and How to Die
Date: 21 March 2005
By John Schwartz
John Schwartz
Many Americans are quietly taking active role in their own deaths, some with help of their doctors and others through actions of their own that blur definition of suicide; experts say support for assisted suicide is likely to increase as baby boomers, long accustomed to making decisions that shape their lives, demand say over their deaths, as well; surveys suggest that more than half of Americans find physician-assisted suicide morally acceptable, although many people remain opposed, often on moral or religious grounds; Rabbi Leonard A Sharzer, doctor and bioethicist who opposes suicide on religious grounds, says news coverage of assisted suicide and controversial end-of-life issues, from Dr Jack Kevorkian and Schiavo to fight over Oregon's law, has made patients more comfortable talking about death; even in Oregon, where broadest range of choices is available, few take option of hastening death through suicide drugs; photos (M)