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More than four years ago, in February of 2000, my local CBS affiliate in Chicago tried something different. With the mantra “no water-skiing squirrels” and the expertise of veteran Chi-town anchor Carol Marin, “The 10 p.m. News with Carol Marin” attempted to take local news back in time. Gone were the menacing, sensational teasers as the station went to commercial—“What your family should know about strangulation this Christmas season”—replaced by Marin standing and reciting the day?...
...throwback to the 1950s. And fifty years behind its time, the newscast failed. By August, there were rumblings that the CBS affiliate would can the format. By November, Carol Marin and her hardcore local news posse were toast. Their attempt at de-sensationalizing local news had only revealed the extent to which Americans (or at least Chicagoans) had become accustomed to the current sorry, sensationalized state of news in America...
...media companies to stray from absolute neutrality. Slant the news a little, and you’ve instantly differentiated your newspaper or TV station from the competition. Add headlines more sensationalized and jingoistic than your competitors, and you’ve instantly beaten them. Wooden information-deliverers like Carol Marin don’t stand a chance against the boisterous Bill O’Reilly and the seductive Paula Zahn. The media are a business, and their business is presenting biased information in a way that catches the eye of their target viewers...
...average corporate-tax rate in the 10 new members is 21.3%, while it is nearly 30% in the rest of the E.U. It is 38% in Germany and 34% in France. That's why many believe that firms may flee France and Germany and head east. Dalia Marin, an economics professor at the University of Munich, says that German multinationals created some 780,000 jobs in Eastern Europe between 1990 and 2001, resulting in a net loss of 90,000 jobs in Germany. Of course, companies weigh more than the tax rate when deciding where to set up shop. According...
...Marin J. Orlosky