MediaTalk; Managers of Utah Paper Attempt to Block Its Sale
Date: 04 December 2000
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Managers of Salt Lake Tribune sue to prevent current owner, AT&T, from selling newspaper to Media-News Group, charging that Dean Singleton, chief of Media-News Group, is front for Mormon Church, whose elders have formally expressed their disapproval of Tribune's coverage of matters important to church; church owns Deseret News, afternoon paper that has joint operating agreement with the morning Tribune; photo (M)
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Compressed Data; Political Laughs For Internet Users
Date: 04 December 2000
By Rebecca Fairley Raney
Rebecca Raney
Democracy Online Project at George Washington University reports that Internet users are far more likely to exchange jokes about candidates by e-mail than to browse Web sites; says proportion of public that uses Internet to get news and information about politics grew from a quarter in 1998 to a third in 2000; Pew Research Center and Pew Internet and American Life Project report that consumers who seek election news online are far more likely to go to Web sites of established news organizations than to online political publications or candidate Web sites; graphs (M)
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Columbia Gives Awards For Journalism Done Online
Date: 05 December 2000
By Nichole M. Christian
Nichole
Internet magazine Salon and MSNBC.com are honored for general excellence in Columbia University's first online journalism awards; they were among 12 winners announced during first national conference of Online News Association at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism (M)
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The Justices Speak, and the Networks Scramble to Understand What They Said
Date: 05 December 2000
By Peter Marks
Peter Marks
Article assesses efforts of major television networks to digest and make live, split-second analyses of US Supreme Court ruling vacating Florida Supreme Court decision extending statutory deadline for certification of presidential balloting; photos (M)
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Televising the Highest Court
Date: 05 December 2000
Editorial says US Supreme Court provided Americans with invaluable civics lesson by taking unprecedented step of releasing audio recording of arguments in case involving presidential ballot recount in Florida, but that lesson would have been greatly enhanced if event had also been shown on television; urges Chief Justice William H Rehnquist to embrace presence of television in court as important tool of democratic empowerment (S)
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CARDINAL HEALTH TO BUY BINDLEY WESTERN
Date: 05 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Drug wholesaler Cardinal Health agrees to buy rival Bindley Western Industries for $1.67 billion in stock (S)
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ABITIBI-CONSOLIDATED TO RAISE NEWSPRINT PRICES
Date: 05 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Newsprint maker Abitibi-Consolidated will raise prices for third time this year (S)
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UNITED REFINING RAISES BID FOR GETTY PETROLEUM
Date: 05 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
United Refining Co will raise its bid for Getty Petroleum Marketing to $84 million cash to thwart acquisition of Getty by Russian company Lukoil Holding (S)
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UNITED AIRLINES WINS DISPUTE WITH REGIONAL CARRIER
Date: 05 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
United Airlines wins final round in legal dispute with Mesa Air Group, which accused it of reneging on agreement to coordinate services (S)
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G.M. SAYS IT WILL NOT COMPLETE HUGHES DEAL THIS YEAR
Date: 05 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
General Motors says that it will not complete transaction involving its Hughes Electronics subsidiary before end of 2000 (S)
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