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...publishing industry struggled to preserve its fall season in a battered, partially shutdown city, reports PW. The impact of the terrorist attack was profound, from the Borders superstore near the twin towers that was completely destroyed, to the many closed publishing houses, to the canceled promotional events. September 11 was the laydown date for Warner?s $7 million Jack Welch book, but all of the scheduled hoopla, including an appearance on the Jay Leno show, was immediately put on hold. (Despite the lack of publicity, the much-awaited book soared to No. 1 on the 9/30 NYT list...
...There are some very profound messages on it,” Ito said. “I’m glad to see that messages which are disturbing have more responses to them, to show that it’s not the sentiment of the entire community...
...idea of objective news coverage doesn’t come from authority alone, or from journalists’ profound moral superiority over the rest of us. Rather, it comes from accountability and the opportunity for false information to be corrected elsewhere, something lacking in countries without a free press; from the comparison of information from different sources with different interests; from requiring extraordinary evidence for extraordinary claims; from providing a forum for criticism and being willing to accept...
...open negotiations with the Palestinians. Ironically, the global anti-terror campaign may presage a more activist peacemaking role by the new Bush administration, too. It even has the potential to foster unprecedented security cooperation between Washington and such hitherto "untouchable" regimes as Iran and Syria. But there are profound dangers, too. A wider war between the West and the Arab and Muslim world is precisely what Bin Laden and his henchmen are trying to provoke - and what the Bush administration must avoid. It is the tricky quest for allies that will help the U.S. avoid just such a conflagration...
...Taliban's response is to call what they may presume is a U.S. bluff, the exact nature of the military action that follows can have profound consequences for the broader anti-terror alliance. The European NATO members may have agreed to aid a U.S. military retaliation, but all except Britain are showing signs of uneasiness over being drawn into an ill-defined or open-ended war - indeed, they refuse to call it a "war" at all. The Bush administration, of course, is likely to steer clear of the sort of frontal invasion of Afghanistan that became a nightmare...