Networks Agree to U.S. Request To Edit Future bin Laden Tapes
Date: 11 October 2001
By Bill Carter and Felicity Barringer
Bill Carter
Five major television news organizations agree to White House suggestion to abridge any future videotaped statements from Osama bin Laden or his followers to remove language government considers inflammatory; decision comes after conference call between White House national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and ABC News, CBS News, NBC News and its subsidiary, MSNBC, Cable News Network and Fox News Channel; this is first time in memory that networks have agreed to joint arrangement to limit their prospective news coverage; networks claim Rice mainly argued that tapes enable bin Laden to vent propaganda intended to incite hatred and potentially kill more Americans; say they will broadcast only short parts of any tape issued by Al Qaeda and would eliminate any passages urging violence against Americans; coverage of aftermath of terrorist attacks on New York and Pentagon has generated intense competitive pressure among television news organizations; tapes from bin Laden and his associates were broadcast by Arabic language satellite network Al Jazeera and picked up by American networks; photo (M)
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Editors' Note; Today's Sections
Date: 10 October 2001
Editors' Note: News of terrorist attacks and aftermath continues to appear in Section B; location of other sections noted
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Reservoir Security Is Tight, 2 Journalists Learn Firsthand
Date: 10 October 2001
By Robert Worth
Robert Worth
Reporters for The Daily News, trying to test security of city's water supply, are stopped by police as they approach fence around Rye Lake reservoir in Westchester County (S)
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Censorship in Pashto and Arabic
Date: 10 October 2001
Editorial praises Voice of America as source of real journalism and accurate information broadcast in 53 languages around world; rejects attempts in Bush administration and Congress to censure VOA over interview with Taliban leader, especially in light of need to maintain credible alternative source of news for Muslims; cites vicious anti-American, anti-Israeli slant of Al Jazeera, but says correct response is not to ask Qatar to censor satellite station but to counter its propaganda
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President Is Using TV Show and the Public in Combination to Combat Terrorism
Date: 11 October 2001
By Alessandra Stanley
Alessandra Stanley
Pres Bush's media strategy includes trying to dissuade American television news organizations from broadcasting pretaped statements from Osama bin Laden; also enlists support of television program America's Most Wanted, which has proven record of tracking down suspects; new episode will focus on terrorists on list released by FBI (M)
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A Public Flooded With Images From Friend and Foe Alike
Date: 10 October 2001
By Caryn James
Caryn James
Caryn James critiques television news coverage of attacks on Afghanistan and hunt for Osama bin Laden; notes that anchors seem flummoxed by what to do with so much information from so many perspectives; sees evidence of media's compliance with government rather than endanger American lives or missions; photos (M)
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Wartime Secrecy
Date: 11 October 2001
Editorial says Pres Bush wisely backed away from his threat to curtail classified military and intelligence briefings to Congress; says Bush's impatience with Congress risked short-circuiting constitutional powers of legislative branch; says administration's wish to tightly control flow of information about war on terrorism could ultimately undermine public support for Washington's antiterror campaign by depriving Americans of information they need to assess administration's actions and state of nation's security; objects to White House effort to get major television news organizations to abridge future videotaped statements of Osama bin Laden in absence of clear evidence that coded messages are contained in videotapes
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New Bomb Raids Near Kabul and Refugees Flee Kandahar
Date: 11 October 2001
By Terence Neilan
Terence Neilan
The heaviest airstrikes of the United States-led campaign continued against Afghanistan for a fifth day as thousands were reported fleeing from Kandahar.
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Supreme Court Roundup; Justices Set Aside Ruling Against Prayer Organizers
Date: 10 October 2001
By Linda Greenhouse
Linda Greenhouse
Supreme Court sets aside appeals court ruling that enabled Tucson to charge religious gathering for municipal services that are provided free to other groups holding events in city parks under nonprofit sponsorship; sends case back to appeals court; Court declines to elaborate on June ruling in New York Times case that newspaper and magazine publishers infringed on copyrights of freelancers by licensing their articles for on-line retrieval without permission or further payment; new case involves National Geographic Society CD-ROMs; Court also solicits Bush administration views on constitutionality of Maine's pharmaceutical pricing program; drug companies face state price controls if they refuse to pay rebates on subsidized drug payments (M)
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U.S. SHIFTS FOCUS OF ATTACK IN AFGHANISTAN BY BOMBING GROUND FORCES OF TALIBAN
Date: 11 October 2001
By Michael R. Gordon and Steven Lee Myers
Michael Gordon
American warplanes pound barracks, garrisons and troop encampments across Afghanistan in heaviest airstrikes yet against ground forces of Taliban regime, protectors of suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden and his network; Pres Bush announces multimillion-dollar rewards for capture of bin Laden and 21 other international terrorists, including several of his lieutenants; White House persuades five major American television news organizations to agree to edit broadcasts of any more videotaped statements from bin Laden or his organization, for fear that they contain coded messages; American military operation suffers its first casualty when American soldier is crushed between two military vehicles at Khanabad air base in Uzbekistan; Pentagon officials acknowledge that American cruise missile might have been responsible for death of four security guards at United Nations-affiliated organization in Kabul (M)
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