Den 7 maj 2001 var en måndag under stjärntecknet ♉. Det var 126 e dagen i året. Förenta staternas president var George W. Bush.
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Date: 07 May 2001
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Associated Press board has reluctantly agreed to sell some national and international news on Web; AP president Louis D Boccardi, responding to members concerns, says AP will not sell state and local news, AP's unique asset; says items for sale to narrow-interest sites will be product of AP journalists, not culled from newspapers (M)
Date: 07 May 2001
By Jim Rutenberg and Geraldine Fabrikant
Jim Rutenberg
Rival media companies brace for Rupert Murdoch to become even fiercer competitor in American television industry if his News Corp's acquires DirecTV along with rest of General Motors' Hughes Electronics division; DirecTV, fast-growing satellite television service, has become force in arena once fully controlled by cable industry; would give new leverage to News Corp, already TV power with its Fox network; table of Hughes holdings (M)
Date: 08 May 2001
By Peter Marks
Peter Marks
Hundreds of reporters, photographers, technicians and commentators from around world will be outside penetentiary near Terre Haute, Ind, on morning of May 16, waiting for first word of execution of Timothy J McVeigh for Oklahoma City bombing; some news people are grappling with question of what exactly so many of them will be doing there; producers and news executives say they are determined to observe solemnity of occasion and keep it from taking on carnival atmosphere; question is whether media event so complex, involving so many people, can avoid spilling over into excess; photo (M)
Date: 07 May 2001
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Denver Post and rival Denver Rocky Mountain News, which slashed prices to spur circulation, face big circulation declines in wake of combining business operations and raising prices; circulation graphs; photo (S)
Date: 07 May 2001
By Tina Rosenberg
Tina Rosenberg
Editorial Observer by Tina Rosenberg cites Guatemala as glaring example of Latin American country with media dominated by single owners; Angel Gonzalez owns all four of country's main broadband TV stations, making him kingmaker; candidate he favored, Alfonso Portillo, is now president, and he has named relative of Gonzalez's to high government post; Gonzalez has canceled popular television show critical of Portillo's government, and his stations are involved in campaigns of personal attacks and threats against two Guatemalan newspapers that accused government of irregularities; technically, Gonzalez's control of television is illegal, but Pres Portillo has done nothing about it (M)
Date: 07 May 2001
By Don Kirk
Don Kirk
New battle is under way in South Korea between government and press; critics say government is trying to stop big three papers from criticizing liberal Kim Dae Jung, whose popularity is waning under their attacks; ostensibly, all country's 23 news media companies are under investigation for possible violations of tax and fair trade laws; executives of three biggest-selling papers say they are being singled out; together they control 70 percent of newspaper sales in country; government recently extended deadline on tax probe of three papers, action seen as evidence of its determination to find evidence to bring charges (M)
Date: 07 May 2001
By Roger Cohen
Roger Cohen
Analysis: vote that ousted United States from United Nations Human Rights Commission was prompted by irritation among European nations at themes of Bush administration; torrent of hostile articles in Europe has greeted Pres Bush's first three months in office; their chief theme has been arrogance of what German weekly Der Spiegel calls 'snarling, ugly Americans'; diplomats attribute embarrrassing snub to United States to seeming absence of 'dialogue and respect' in Bush administration's approach to outside world; photo (M)
Date: 07 May 2001
By Benjamin Weiser
Benjamin Weiser
Christine Cornell drawing of Kenyan witness in trial of four men charged with joining conspiracy to bomb two United States Embassies in Africa is run on CNN Web site with face deliberately left blank; witness, who is in witness protection program, feared for safety of his children in Kenya; photo (M)
Date: 08 May 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
L-3 Communications Holdings buys KDI Precision Products, maker of fuses designed to prevent inadvertent firing or detonation of miliary weapons during handling, for some $67.5 million (S)
Date: 08 May 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
BNP Paribas, France's largest bank, plans to buy 55 percent of BancWest Corp it does not already own for $2.45 billion (S)