The December 16, 2000 was a Saturday under the star sign of ♐. It was the 350 day of the year. President of the United States was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
If you were born on this day, you are 25 years old. Your last birthday was on the Tuesday, December 16, 2025, 200 days ago. Your next birthday is on Wednesday, December 16, 2026, in 164 days. You have lived for 9,331 days, or about 223,952 hours, or about 13,437,139 minutes, or about 806,228,340 seconds.
Date: 16 December 2000
By Andy Borowitz
Andy Borowitz
Andy Borowitz humorous Op-ed article says NBC's choice of news executive Jeff Zucker to run network's entertainment division is latest episode in disturbing trend: the ongoing intrusion of news into entertainment (M)
Date: 16 December 2000
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Judge Tena Campbell rejects request to block MediaNews Group from its $200 million acquisition of The Salt Lake Tribune from AT&T; Tribune's managers and editorial staff fear that new owner may give Tribune's relationship with its business partner and editorial rival, the Mormon-owned Deseret News, undue influence on its business and editorial operations (S)
Date: 17 December 2000
By Elisabeth Rosenthal
Elisabeth Rosenthal
Official Chinese news media start publishing flurry of blunt articles about country's burgeoning AIDS problems, touching on topics that were previously considered far too sensitive; criticize country's AIDS prevention efforts as half-hearted and cite previously unmentionable estimates about thousands of Chinese peasants--and perhaps millions--who have contracted HIV virus after selling their blood on black market (M)
Date: 17 December 2000
By Caryn James
Caryn James
Caryn James Critic's Notebook column says television news anchors and commentators maintained relentlessly hysterical tone for five weeks that presidential election went undecided and that their apocalyptic attitude was far removed from that of general public, which was mildly curious or gripped, weary or disenchanged as the process unfolded (M)
Date: 17 December 2000
By Steven Erlanger
Steven Erlanger
Serbia's state television and radio network, an essential pillar of Slobodan Miosevic's 13-year rule, is slipping easily into being cheerleaders for new democratic authorities, who seem reluctant to allow it much independence; network, which is overstaffed, underequipped and much derided, is thus an emblem of who is in charge in Serbia and how much--or how little--things have changed; photos (M)
Date: 17 December 2000
By Iver Peterson
Iver Peterson
On Politics column on Rep Bob Franks as gubernatorial candidate in 2001; notes recent Quinnipiac poll shows New Jersey voters know him and like him in numbers he could not have earned before his losing Senate campaign against Jon S Corzine; says read of New Jersey history shows that losing can be winning strategy, because it overcomes difficulty of becoming known in state split between two or more media spheres of influence (M)
Date: 16 December 2000
Co-workers say Cao Maobin, leader of workers at silk factory in Jiangsu Province, China, who tried to form independent labor union, has been involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital; detention comes one day after Cao spoke with Western reporters about workers' grievances (M)
Date: 16 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Bradlees Inc is negotiating with lenders and considering liquidating itself (S)
Date: 16 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Black & Decker Corp says that fourth-quarter profit will fall as much as 27 percent (S)
Date: 16 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Antec Corp says it will lose 9 cents to 13 cents a share due to cancelled orders from its largest customer, AT&T Corp (S)