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Tabloids Holler 'Rewrite!' at Each Other

Date: 20 March 1994

By Tom Kuntz

Tom Kuntz

Who needs movies about the tabloid business like "The Paper" when real life is even wilder and woolier? Last week the archrivals of New York journalism -- The Daily News and The New York Post -- were at it again. This time the issue was not the supposed high-handedness of one another's ownership nor even the papers' raids on one another's staffs, but the Whitewater scandal -- suggesting that the venue of the tab slugfest matters little so long as the fight goes on. The Post for weeks has been cranking out stories challenging official assertions that the death of Vincent Foster, the White House official who was found, revolver in hand, in a Virginia park last July, was a case of simple suicide. It has questioned the United States Park Police's investigative procedures and whether the physical evidence -- the body's position, the amount of blood, etc. -- was consistent with a suicide at the site.

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Press

Date: 21 March 1994

By William Glaberson

William Glaberson

TRUE, Robert (Watchdog Bob) Jankovics has not been a reporter very long. And, true, his radio persona is modeled on Dom DeLuise's hyperventilated watchdog reporter in the movie "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas." But none of that dampens Watchdog Bob's earnestness about the legal battle he is fighting -- an effort that appears likely to end with him in prison testing the limits of the First Amendment. Mr. Jankovics is one of those personalities who come along in journalism every now and again, who seem bent on trying to put their names on court decisions involving collisions of prosecutors and the press.

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London Journal; For 20%, He Sells Scandal, Keeping Britain Agog

Date: 21 March 1994

By John Darnton

John Darnton

Three flights above New Bond Street, over a beauty parlor, is the office of Max Clifford, p.r. agent in the raw. It is decorated with stories that he has massaged, maneuvered and leaked onto front pages of the tabloids. They are mounted behind glass and pinned to the wall like trophies. Mr. Clifford is in the midst of an interview, expounding upon his skill in "directing traffic," as he calls the art of planting and suppressing stories, when in walks a motorcycle messenger wrapped in red leather. The messenger delivers a package from The News of the World that contains another mounted trophy, "Chief of Defense in Sex and Security Scandal."

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G.E. Locomotive Deal

Date: 21 March 1994

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Southern Pacific Lines, a unit of the Southern Pacific Rail Corporation, plans to buy 100 locomotives from the General Electric Company for about $135 million. Southern Pacific Lines, the nation's sixth-largest railroad, with 15,000 miles of track serving 15 states, said last week that it also planned to lease three locomotives from the Morrison Knudsen Corporation.

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Right in Your Own Backyard

Date: 20 March 1994

To the Editor: When Walter Goodman wrote in his essay "Can a Trial Be Too Hot for TV?" [ March 6 ] : "If television has a problem in this rancorously multicultural era, it is not insensitivity but oversensitivity to those who feel victimized," he came close, but no cigar. Had he written, "If The New York Times has a problem in this rancorously multicultural era, it is not insensitivity but oversensitivity to those who feel victimized," he would have been right on the money.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 20 March 1994

International 3-21 NORTH KOREA SANCTIONS CLOSER The United States has decided to ask the United Nations to lay the groundwork for economic sanctions against North Korea, having failed to persuade the country to accept monitoring of its nuclear facilities. 1 THE PERILS OF NATASHA Foreign soap operas have captured the imagination of many Russians. While the trend is deplored by intellectuals, many fans find the drama a welcome distraction from the bleakness of their lives. 1

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 21 March 1994

International A2-11 CHILL WIND FROM CHINA China said that the importance of its trade with the United States has been exaggerated and that it is prepared to return to a cold war status if the dispute over human rights cannot be resolved. A1

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Viewpoints; New Angles From the Spin Doctors

Date: 20 March 1994

By Joel Bleifuss

Joel Bleifuss

COMMUNICATIONS professionals, as the flacks of yesteryear are now known, earn their living by sticking Happy Faces over unpleasant realities. "It is easier and less costly to change the way people think about reality than it is to change reality," says Morris Wolfe, a press critic. But in our savvy culture, people soon see through cosmetic makeovers. This spurs the public relations folk to develop yet more sophisticated -- shall we say deceptive? -- techniques. So, on the theory that forewarned is forearmed, here are some of the field's recent refinements:

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Alien Adolescents

Date: 20 March 1994

Americans invented adolescence, and then, like Frankenstein's monster, it turned on them. Mickey Rooney as Andy Hardy may have been the ur-teen. Postwar affluence and sheer numbers brought the world Elvis and James Dean. In the modern era, Sean Penn as Jeff Spicoli in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" gave rise to further generations of dedicated dropouts, from the most excellent Bill and Ted to the pyrophilic Beavis and Butt-head.

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North Korea Bars A-Plant Survey; Threatens to Quit Nuclear Treaty; Japan Seeks Chinese Help

Date: 21 March 1994

By Patrick E. Tyler

Patrick Tyler

Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa of Japan pressed Chinese leaders today to exercise greater influence on North Korea so it would give up any nuclear ambitions, saying he was "gravely concerned" about the looming crisis. "More than any other country, China has the deepest relations with North Korea," Mr. Hosokawa said at a news conference today after talks with President Jiang Zemin and Prime Minister Li Peng. "Therefore China could work to move North Korea in a positive direction instead of a negative one."

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