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...number of readers like Titelbaum and Peter S. Manasantivongs '99 complain that repeated misquoting and misreporting of facts has made them wary of talking to Crimson reporters at all. Hasty editing and headlining also lead to complaints of mischaracterization. Most recently, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz pointed out that a story in which he denied representing Radovan Karadzic ran with the headline "Dershowitz May Defend Serb Leader Karadzic." The story also omitted Dershowitz's caveat that he had not spoken with Karadzic in a year. As a result, the "entire thrust of the story was wrong," complained Dershowitz...
...anonymous editor. It sure sounds like the real world of competitive journalism, where the grabby headline is more important than the boring details. Your headline writer has a job waiting for him or her at the New York Post. Your editor may be comfortable at the National Enquirer. ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ...
...after The Lost World: Jurassic Park, is another really big lizard movie, Godzilla. This updating of the old Japanese monster series, by the Independence Day team, has been teased so cannily ("Size Does Matter") that now industry folk have only one debate: Which film will come in second? Analyst Alan Kassan of Deutsche Morgan Grenfell picks Saving Private Ryan. "A great script, Steven Spielberg directing, Tom Hanks starring--I'd take points in that...
...sleeper," says analyst Dixon, "and this could be it." Sleep as in The Big, since this is a black comedy about college kids plotting to drive a roommate to suicide so they'll get an A for grief. With perennial star-of-the-future Tom Everett Scott. Directed by Alan Cohn, who helped create MTV's The Real World, so we'll hope against hope...
...untested shareholders and heavy insider selling are among my concerns. On the interest-rate front, though, there seems little cause for worry. The new jitters stem from modestly robust economic figures that suggest a rate increase is in order to slow the economy, and rumors that Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan is leaning that way. So what? Six months ago, Asia was falling apart, and everyone thought the economy would sag so much that the Fed would cut rates. Six months before that, the economy was looking brisk, and the Fed did in fact nudge rates higher. But only...