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...Families. "They have a very explicit objective of getting these issues on the national-policy debate. I can tell you, though, there is no indication that public attitudes are swinging in a way consistent with this move." Other academics agree with Bumpass. Stephanie Coontz, who teaches family studies at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, derides the think-tank activists as old-fashioned social reactionaries in disguise. "Divorce is the entering wedge for these people. They found an issue that looked less mean than attacking unwed moms. Everyone is against divorce in the abstract, but in the concrete, they understand...
Last week a three-way deal created the largest radio-only company in the country: Chancellor Media Corp. The new outfit combines Evergreen Media Corp. and Chancellor Broadcasting Co., which is controlled by investment firm Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst and is valued at about $1.5 billion. The company will then buy 10 stations from media giant Viacom for $1.075 billion...
...stations in 21 markets, and a dominant share in 11 of the 25 largest radio markets--for example, a 15% bite of New York City's airwaves. Only Westinghouse/CBS is bigger, thanks to its purchase last year of Infinity Broadcasting for $4.9 billion. Does consolidation mean homogenization? No, says Evergreen CEO Scott K. Ginsburg. Stations succeed only on the virtue of their programming. Says he: "The audience has no idea when they press a button which company owns the station...
...season" have nothing to do with Christmas. At my public (i.e., state-run) high school, school officials were thrilled to display five Christmas trees prominently throughout the building--this despite the "separation of Church and State" which this country supposedly promises. The librarian even claimed that the evergreen in the library--decorated with tinsel, lights, and ornaments, which appeared in early December and was gone by early January--was not a Christmas tree but a "book tree" with no religious connotations whatsoever...
...EVERGREEN SPECIALS...