A 1996. február 14. egy szerda volt a ♒ csillagjegy alatt. Ez volt az év 44 napja. Az Egyesült Államok elnöke William J. (Bill) Clinton volt.
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Date: 14 February 1996
Reuters
Pointcast Inc., a privately held information services provider, introduced a free personalized Internet news and information service today that is displayed as a screen saver on a personal computer. Pointcast said it was working with the Netscape Communications Corporation to allow its service to be viewed directly from Netscape Navigator, the most popular browser for the Internet.
Date: 15 February 1996
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
CBS's longest-running and most popular program, "60 Minutes," will switch to a new format in the next few weeks that adds coverage of breaking news stories and weekly commentary by a corps of columnists, including Molly Ivins, Stanley Crouch and P. J. O'Rourke. The program will also be videotaped every Sunday instead of every Friday, as it always had been, to move as close as possible to the time the program is broadcast, Sunday evenin's at 7. "60 Minutes" will also offer new stories 52 weeks a year, abandoning its practice of relying on repeats in the summer months, said Don Hewitt, the show's executive producer and creator, who announced the changes yesterday.
Date: 14 February 1996
By Walter Goodman
Walter Goodman
The predilection of television news for treating politics as war by other means was the main target at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism last month. Speakers at the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Forum, an annual bewailing of journalistic sin, blamed the media for scanting the substance of public issues and playing up their adversarial aspect: Who assaulted whom today? They called on news directors to exchange polarization for deliberation. The charge was easily documented, the solution somewhat wishful. According to a transcript of the meeting, Lani Guinier, drawing on her unhappy experience as a nominee to be Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Civil Rights Division, lamented that public conversation had become sound bites: "We only see black and white. We don't see gray; we don't focus on nuance." In more academic lingo, Benjamin Barber, who teaches political science at Rutgers University, decried the "largely polarized, dualistic, two-cell model of our social world."
Date: 15 February 1996
By Mark Landler
Mark Landler
A Chinese rocket carrying a television satellite exploded seconds after its launching yesterday, dealing a potential blow to Rupert Murdoch's ambitions to offer satellite programming in Latin America. Mr. Murdoch's News Corporation is one of four media companies in a partnership that had leased space on the Intelsat satellite to offer the Latin American service. The other partners are Tele-Communications Inc., the nation's largest cable operator; Grupo Televisa S.A., the Mexican broadcaster and publisher, and the giant Brazilian media conglomerate Globo.
Date: 14 February 1996
By Michael R. Gordon
Michael Gordon
In an election-year skirmish between President Boris N. Yeltsin and the press, the Government has barred Russia's most prominent independent television network from the Kremlin, the network's editors said today. Journalists from NTV, Russia's only nationwide independent television station, said that the ban on its film crews was prompted by an unflattering broadcast about Mr. Yeltsin and was meant as a warning to them to tone down their criticism.
Date: 15 February 1996
By The New York Times
The Republican contenders in Tuesday's New Hampshire Presidential primary are scheduled to have a 90-minute debate on Thursday night. It will be carried live around the nation via CNN from the studios of WMUR beginning at 8 P.M. Eastern time.
Date: 15 February 1996
AP
Jeff Gralnick, the executive producer of NBC's "Nightly News," is returning to ABC to head the network's planned 24-hour news channel. The channel, which is expected to be started later this year, is designed for cable and other distribution systems. Mr. Gralnick, 58, will be responsible for its news content and production. He left ABC in 1993, after serving as vice president and executive producer for special broadcasts. At NBC, he was credited with leading the "Nightly News" past the "CBS Evening News" into second place in the ratings. NBC said that David Doss, senior producer at the "Nightly News," would head the newscast until a new executive producer was announced.
Date: 14 February 1996
Bloomberg Business News
Bloomberg News
The Occidental Petroleum Corporation said yesterday that it would dismiss 450 workers at its Occidental Chemical Corporation subsidiary and eliminate the subsidiary's international division. The layoffs and reorganization are expected to result in annualized savings of about $100 million, Occidental said, and no charge against 1996 earnings is expected. The latest moves are part of Occidental's reorganization of worldwide oil and gas operations, announced in October. Last month, the company dismissed 400 workers at its Midcon Corporation subsidiary, to save about $50 million.