When the News Drives the Music
Date: 25 April 1999
By David Kirby
David Kirby
Scene at music studio on Manhattan's West Side described, one of several in area where writing and production of television news is completed; photos (M)
25. dubna 1999 bylo neděle pod hvězdičkou ♉. Byl 114 den v roce. Prezidentem Spojených států byl William J. (Bill) Clinton.
Pokud jste se narodili v tento den, je vám 27 let. Vaše poslední narozeniny byly sobota 25. dubna 2026 před 47 dny. Vaše další narozeniny jsou neděle 25. dubna 2027, za 317 dní. Žili jste 9 909 dní nebo přibližně 237 831 hodin nebo přibližně 14 269 865 minut nebo přibližně 856 191 900 sekund.
Date: 25 April 1999
By David Kirby
David Kirby
Scene at music studio on Manhattan's West Side described, one of several in area where writing and production of television news is completed; photos (M)
Date: 26 April 1999
By Lawrie Mifflin
Lawrie Mifflin
Many people watching CNN's live coverage of high school shootings in Littleton, Colo, were shocked to hear voice of student still inside Columbine High School, who spoke by cell phone to local television station and told where he was hiding; that live broadcast could possibly have endangered more students; Barbara Cochran, president of Radio-Televison News Directors Assn, says this was instance of new technology entering picture--students with cell phones--before industry has chance to think about and establish rule; photo (M)
Date: 25 April 1999
By Mindy Sink
Mindy Sink
Gear and people needed to cover aftermath of deadly high school shooting have turned corner of Littleton, Colo, into overnight international media village; incident boosts rating of some television news shows (M)
Date: 25 April 1999
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Frightful images of suffering of Kosovo Albanians discussed as they influence international public opinion; what journalists see of air war is what NATO allies want them to see, and what they see of destruction in Kosovo and Serbia is what Serbs want them to see; problem of verifying facts is reflected in stark photo of corpse lying in crater, with other bodies in background; photo; image was sent by Serb free-lancer and published by Time and Newsweek, even though it appeared suspiciously staged; (M)
Date: 25 April 1999
By Eleanor Randolph
Eleanor Randolph
Eleanor Randolph Editorial Observer on White House Correspondents Assn dinner, once-tiresome event that has become 'glittery scrum' of guests more interested in preening than participating
Date: 25 April 1999
By Janna Malamud Smith
Janna Smith
Janna Malamud Smith Op-Ed article on television as omnipresent witness to contemporary life, including horrible events like school shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado (S)
Date: 26 April 1999
By Alex Kuczynski
Alex Kuczynski
Publicity stunt by Dreamworks SKG to promote its new movie, The Love Letter, draws protests from many journalists; they received unsigned letters that appeared to be written by love-smitten stalker, then second letter identifying movie being promoted (S)
Date: 25 April 1999
By Peter Godwin
Peter Godwin
Peter Godwin article explains how war reporters like himself, no matter how tenderhearted at the outset, must cultivate controlled schizophrenia to survive, as their capacity for empathy is all but drowned by sheer flow of suffering in places like Uganda and Kosovo; photo; says they develop mordant humor and studied machismo, much as police officers and emergency room doctors do (M)
Date: 25 April 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Adrian Griffin is named most valuable player of Continental Basketball Assn after helping Connecticut Pride to league finals (S)
Date: 25 April 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Dr Thomas Frist Jr, chairman of Columbia/HCA Healthcare, bought $49.4 million of company stock in March, when it traded at five-year low of around $17; price has now jumped to about $26; his photo (S)