It is divided between fluff — an "About Town" section offers extensive coverage of parties and premieres — and substantive, reported features with tart language like "Coroner's Report," an examination of a movie that flopped.
The site will also have news, much of it culled from Advance Publication's Women's Wear Daily; coverage of parties and events, and message boards debating hot topics like whether one can wear Capri pants after Labor Day.
As doctors expressed concern for the health of Emma Bonino, a leader of the small Radical Party who went on a hunger strike on Friday to protest insufficient news coverage of her party's top issues, Prime Minister Giuliano Amato asked TV networks to give more coverage to the party, which is anti-Vatican and argues that the abortion pill should be legal.
He is not talking to the news media except to complain about coverage of his party.
On the other hand, the Pakistani media, which has long hesitated to criticize M.Q.M., is now reposting the British media's coverage of the party's activities.
He triumphantly told supporters there was a "new dawn" breaking across Scotland, and also hit out at "certain newspapers" for their negative coverage of his party.
It meant the Greens did not get the coverage of minor party leaders such as Nick Xenophon and One Nation's Pauline Hanson.
For years, coverage of the party's nominating conventions on television has been waning; conventions in the 1970s and 1980s were covered in their entirety by the three major networks.
The centrepiece of Independence Day for well over 50% of the population of Finland is watching the TV coverage of the party at the totally un-Russian, "nothing-like-St Petersburg" presidential palace.
Steven Greenhouse (NYT NBCC TO RELY ON CABLE -- Reflecting the migration of political news to cable, NBC News announced yesterday that its coverage of the party conventions on one of its cable outlets, MSNBC, would form "the centerpiece of the NBC News effort".
