Media Talk; 'World News Tonight' Gets New Producer
Date: 24 April 2000
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
Paul A Slavin, newly named executive producer of ABC News's World News Tonight, comments on plans to expand audience; photo (M)
Replaying Sunday, April 23, 2000
The April 23, 2000 was a Sunday under the star sign of ♉. It was the 113 day of the year. President of the United States was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
If you were born on this day, you are 26 years old. Your last birthday was on the Thursday, April 23, 2026, 61 days ago. Your next birthday is on Friday, April 23, 2027, in 303 days. You have lived for 9,557 days, or about 229,376 hours, or about 13,762,607 minutes, or about 825,756,420 seconds.
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23rd of April 2000 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on April 23, 2000
All Eyes Are on Fort Lee
Date: 23 April 2000
By Robert Strauss
Robert Strauss
New Jersey-based CNBC cable television network is becoming epicenter of world of financial news, turning anchor Mark Haines and reporter Joe Kernen household names; photo (M)
Deciding Which Image Best Captured Day's Events
Date: 24 April 2000
By Melody Petersen
Melody Petersen
Newspaper editors around country are faced with decision about which photographs best capture events of day regarding Elan Gonzalez's removal from home in Miami and reunion with father; one photo shows federal agent with assault rifle, seemingly pointed toward frightened Elian, in closet in house of Miami relatives; second photo, taken hours later, shows smiling Elian reunited with father; most major papers give more prominent display to photo of armed federal agent (M)
Images Are Everything in Media War
Date: 23 April 2000
By Caryn James
Caryn James
Caryn James's Critic's Notebook column on media coverage of volatile raid by armed federal agents on Miami home of Cuban relatives of six-year-old Elian Gonzalez to seize him and return him to father; photo (M)
Giuliani Ahead in Poll
Date: 23 April 2000
By Elsa Brenner
Elsa Brenner
Poll by Iona College Center for Social Research shows 48 percent of Westchester residents would vote for Mayor Rudolph Giuliani for US Senate, while only 36 percent would select Hillary Rodham Clinton; lastest statewide New York Times/CBS News Poll shows Clinton with lead of 49 percent to 41 percent over Giuliani (S)3
Newspaper in Sea of Outrage Over Coverage of Elian Case
Date: 24 April 2000
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Miami Herald is wrestling with biggest and most emotional local news event since Mariel boatlift from Cuba in 1980; photos (M)
Republicans Take Raid Rage To TV, and Turn Up Volume
Date: 24 April 2000
By Adam Clymer
Adam Clymer
Republican politicians flock to Sunday interview programs to keep up their attacks on Justice Dept's predawn seizure of Elian Gonzalez in Miami; relatively few elected Democrats speak up, and those who do offer some regrets at tactics used to get boy; overnight poll by CNN and Gallup shows 57 percent of public approves federal action, and 37 percent disapproves; only 40 percent feel government 'used too much force' (M)
NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 23 April 2000
INTERNATIONAL 3-10 Andes Countries Fall Into Time of Chaos Suddenly it seems as if all the Andes are in tumult. Recent events have exposed fractures in each society, some old and some new, and one Wall Street firm has warned its clients that the region is becoming ''the Balkans of Latin America.'' 3
NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 24 April 2000
INTERNATIONAL A3-12 Unions Offer Defense Of Trade Policy Position The American labor movement, while waging its biggest battle against trade liberalization, is fighting charges from economists, executives and members of Congress that it has re-embraced protectionism. A1
Applying a Discount To Good Earnings News
Date: 23 April 2000
By Gretchen Morgenson
Gretchen Morgenson
Market Watch column on strong earnings reports by bellwether companies that have provided much-needed comfort for investors reassessing their appetite for newly apparent risks in stocks; chart (M)