Media Strategies
WP: Consultant Offers GOP a Language for the Future
Campaign Finance Reform
NYT: Nonprofit Groups to Defy Subpoenas in Senate Inquiry
NYT: 7 Groups Join to Resist Panel Subpoenas
Privacy
WP: Freeh Seeks Encryption Decoding Key
NYT: U.S. to Go Back on Internet With Social Security Benefits
WP: Social Security Online Service Modified
Internet Services
WP: Seeing the Sites On a Custom Tour
At the FCC
FCC: FCC Issues First DTV Construction Permit Application
FCC: Program Requirements in New Children's Television
Rules go into Effect
International
NYT: Panama's Move to Oust Editor Sets Off Storm
NYT: Soros Closes Foundation In Belarus
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* Media Strategies *
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Title: Consultant Offers GOP a Language for the Future
Source: Washington Post (A1)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1997-09/04/089l-090497-idx.html
Author: Ceci Connolly
Issue: Media Strategies
Description: Frank Luntz distributed to Republican lawmakers a 222 page opus
he introduces as "the most serious effort to put together an effective,
comprehensive national communication strategy." Luntz's "The Language of the
21st Century" is a how-to marketing strategy for politicians who don't know
what to say or how to say it. Luntz thinks the problem with Republicans is
that they don't know how to talk to "real people" -- like women. "The
Language of the 21st Century" includes language for Republicans to use to
start winning debates on policy issues -- including deep phrases like "All
children deserve a chance at a quality education."
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* Campaign Finance Reform *
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Title: Nonprofit Groups to Defy Subpoenas in Senate Inquiry
Source: New York Times (A16)
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/washpol/nonprofits-funds.html
Author: Neil Lewis
Issue: Lobbying/Campaign Finance Reform
Description: More than two dozen nonprofit groups -- representing a broad
range on the political spectrum -- said today that they will not comply with
subpoenas for information. The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee --
headed by Sen Fred Thompson (R-TN) -- is asking for confidential strategy
memorandums, correspondence with candidates and all files related to
publicly debated issues. The Committee wants to know if the groups skirted
campaign finance laws by coordinating efforts with candidates or national
parties.
Title: 7 Groups Join to Resist Panel Subpoenas
Source: Washington Post (A12)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1997-09/04/105l-090497-idx.html
Author: Helen Dewar
Issue: Lobbying/Campaign Finance Reform
Description: Nonprofit groups are fighting subpoenas from the Senate
Committee on Governmental Affairs saying they are an "overly broad, unduly
burdensome and oppressive" threat to their constitutional freedom. A Senate
Committee spokesman disagrees saying that the groups' donor and membership
lists have First Amendment guarantees, but the Committee is requesting
information about possible illegal or improper coordination with political
parties or campaigns.
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* Privacy *
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Title: Freeh Seeks Encryption Decoding Key
Source: Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1997-09/04/195l-090497-idx.html
Author: Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Issue: Encryption/Privacy
Description: FBI Director Louis Freeh told a Senate subcommittee yesterday
that law enforcement should have keys to any encryption software sold in the
US. In Director Freeh's plan, the default settings in all encryption
software would allow access by authorities, but savvy computer users would
be able to change the settings. The plan -- Free Speech for Geeks -- has not
been formally endorsed by the Clinton Administration and drew criticism for
the software industry which calls it costly and unworkable. [For more on
encryption and privacy see http://www.cdt.org/]
Title: U.S. to Go Back on Internet With Social Security Benefits
Source: New York Times (A1)
http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/090497social.html
Author: Robert Pear
Issue: Privacy
Description: The Clinton Administration will soon re-establish an online
site so that people can check their social security benefits. The site was
closed earlier this year due to privacy concerns. The new site will include
safety features to protect private information. The Social Security
Administration describes the service as "the beginning of where the
Government will be in the next century in allowing consumers to serve
themselves."
Title: Social Security Online Service Modified
Source: Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1997-09/04/109l-090497-idx.html
Author: Associated Press
Issue: Privacy
Description: The Social Security Administration's web site will be back
within the year offering taxpayers access to calculations on their future
retirement benefits. The revised site will not include earnings histories,
however.
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* Internet Services *
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Title: Seeing the Sites On a Custom Tour
Source: Washington Post (E1)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1997-09/04/187l-090497-idx.html
Author: Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Issue: Internet
Description: A new Web search engine does better than the keyword searches
we have been using. Alexa -- named after the ancient library in Alexandria,
Egypt -- looks for patterns in the Web. For example, from the UPS website,
Alexa would point you to the FedEx site and the Postal Service site.
"Sometimes it's spooky how helpful it can be," says a founder. See for
yourself http://www.alexa.com.
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* At the FCC *
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FCC Issues First DTV Construction Permit Application to Station KHVO (TV),
Hilo, Hawaii
http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Mass_Media/News_Releases/1997/nrmm7012.html
Program Requirements in New FCC Children's Television Rules go into Effect
http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Miscellaneous/News_Releases/1997/nrmc7062.html
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* International *
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Title: Panama's Move to Oust Editor Sets Off Storm
Source: New York Times (A3)
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/world/panama-journalist.html
Author: Larry Rother
Issue: Journalism/International
Description: Gustavo Gorriti, a Peruvian journalist working in Panama, has
so annoyed the Panamanian Government with news of corruption in campaign and
administration of President Ernesto Perez Balladares and the Democratic
Revolutionary Party that the government is demanding that he leave the
country immediately. "Like all governments with authoritarian pretensions,
this one confuses its own interests with those of the nation," says Mr.
Gorriti who is living and working out of the offices of his employer, the
daily La Prensa.
Title: Soros Closes Foundation In Belarus
Source: New York Times (A6)
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/world/belarus-soros.html
Author: Judith Miller
Issue: Philanthropy/International
Description: Faulting persistent harassment from the government -- including
criminal investigations of employees -- American financier and
philanthropist George Soros closed his foundation in Belarus yesterday. The
foundation had been the largest independent nongovernmental organization in
the country. Mr. Soros says the government's pressure on the foundation is
part of a broader campaign to "destroy independent society" in the country.
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