The February 3, 1998 was a Tuesday under the star sign of ♒. It was the 33 day of the year. President of the United States was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
If you were born on this day, you are 28 years old. Your last birthday was on the Tuesday, February 3, 2026, 137 days ago. Your next birthday is on Wednesday, February 3, 2027, in 227 days. You have lived for 10,364 days, or about 248,755 hours, or about 14,925,349 minutes, or about 895,520,940 seconds.
Date: 03 February 1998
By Stuart Elliott
Stuart Elliott
Robert Margolis and Wayne Campanelli, two high-ranking executives at TV Guide, will assume new positions at News America Marketing, which like TV Guide is owned by News Corp; their replacements at TV Guide have not been announced; changes come two months after David H Stewart joined TV Guide as president and chief executive (S)
Date: 04 February 1998
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
News program ratings have not soared during two weeks of blanket coverage of sexual misconduct allegations against Pres Clinton (S)
Date: 03 February 1998
By Walter Goodman
Walter Goodman
Walter Goodman Critic's Notebook column on concerns among reputable television journalists over whether they are overplaying coverage of alleged White House sex scandal (M)
Date: 04 February 1998
By Janny Scott
Janny Scott
Other news events are distracting news media from intense focus on Pres Clinton's ties with Monica S Lewinsky; lull comes at time of few new disclosures in case and as media seems to be winding down from frenzy of self-flagelation over what many saw as excessive coverage (M)
Date: 04 February 1998
By Lawrie Mifflin
Lawrie Mifflin
Dan Rather, who for weeks has been giddy about going to his first Olympics, will instead remain at his CBS News anchor desk in New York, to handle any breaking news about Iraq or sexual misconduct allegations against Pres Clinton (S)
Date: 03 February 1998
By Edmund L. Andrews
Edmund Andrews
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton is greeted warmly in Davos, Switzerland, at annual gathering of World Economic Forum, where she is introduced as most remarkable and most courageous woman of our times; refers only elliptically to sexual scandals enveloping husband by warning that American media may be undermining civil society by forcing rush to quick judgments; photo (M)
Date: 03 February 1998
By A. M. Rosenthal
A.
A M Rosenthal Op-Ed column deplores fact that press and American public are paying too little attention to looming US military action against Iraq because of preoccupation with White House sex scandal; says public is becoming indifferent to all values but those of cash register (M)
Date: 03 February 1998
By Kurt Eichenwald
Kurt Eichenwald
Federal prosecutors are investigating relationship between American subsidiary of Reuters Holdings PLC and Cyberspace Research Associates Inc, Manhattan company that they believe was commissioned to steal information electronically from big competitor, Bloomberg LP; Cyberspace Research has been described in trade publications as being in business of developing customized computer applications; prosecutors reportedly believe it was working with Reuters Analytics Inc to assist it in obtaining information about Bloomberg's operating code, which governs how company's proprietary financial software works; Cyberspace Research was set up several years ago by David Schwartz, former employee of Bloomberg (M)
Date: 04 February 1998
Editorial deplores what it sees as unwarranted self-flagellation by press for its coverage of Monica S Lewinsky's alleged sexual relationship with Pres Clinton; holds story belongs before public; deplores lax sourcing and inaccurate details (M)
Date: 04 February 1998
By Bernard Weinraub
Bernard Weinraub
Judge Robert A Altman finds two photographers guilty of false imprisonment for hounding Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver, and blocking their cars as they drove son to school in Santa Monica; Giles Harrison and Andrew O'Brien could face up to two years in prison; Altman notes that Shriver was pregnant at the time and Schwarzenegger had just left hospital after open-heart surgery (S)