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...backtrack on HDTV came as little surprise to many industry watchers. "The great myth here is that this was all about HDTV," says Hundt. "HDTV has been a fraud by the broadcasters all these years." Indeed, broadcasters claim that in the frequency consumed by a single HDTV transmission, they can "multicast" several channels of lower-grade digital pictures, which, to the average couch potato, are indistinguishable from the real thing. "The technology is getting so good that we can contemplate multiple channels without any difference in picture quality that the consumer is going to see," Padden told TIME. The other...
Rather than get a defining moment out of this stunt, as Dan Quayle did with his allusion to Murphy Brown, Dole hardly got 24 hours before he had to backtrack, admitting that perhaps the movie was too violent for children under 13 or 14, after which attention faded. We may finally be entering a period when flogging values issues creates less and less of a stir. Yes, people are disgusted with vulgar entertainment and its impact on society, and yearn for a simpler time. But to look to government to allay those concerns is to divert it from the things...
...case at hand to have taken over failing S&Ls if they couldn't rely on the accounting rules to be binding. The case will now return to a lower court to determine the actual amount of damages. Says Baumohl, "The government has learned it can't backtrack after a deal is made. It's a hard and costly lesson to learn." -->