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...question-and-answer period, I cited a long line of civil rights cases involving discrimination against individuals: St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks, Patterson v. McLean Credit Union, Waston v. Ft. Worth Bank, Ann Hopkins v. Price Waterhouse, Walter Walker v. Consumer's Power, and Christine Kraft v. Metromedia. None of these cases involved "preferences." Before I could finish, an obviously irritated Steele cut me off: "Of course there is discrimination. All I am saying to you is.. [dramatic pause]...don't let oppression define your humanity...
...GOING-AWAY PRESENT FROM JOHN W. KLUGE, chairman of the Metromedia Co., can be so generous as to make a person want to stay on after all. Last week, at a tribute to Columbia University's departing president, Michael I. Sovern, Kluge announced that he was giving the university a $60 million gift to endow minority scholarships. Kluge's donation is the largest ever made to Columbia, and according to the Chronicle of Higher Education, it's the sixth largest private gift given to an American university or college. Kluge also gave Columbia $25 million in 1987 and the same...
Peterson and Morita have a point. When Australian Rupert Murdoch was taking substantial control of major American media properties (including Metromedia Inc. and 20th Century Fox), little was written about the dangers of media manipulation from Down Under. Reportage focused less on the fact that the predator was Australian (Murdoch has since acquired American citizenship) than that he was Murdoch. Nor did warnings sound when Canada's Thomson Newspapers acquired more than 100 papers...
...niche for the $1.3 billion outdoor advertising industry. The huge, hand-painted icons often take a month to produce, sometimes depict faces inaccurately, and can be awkward to move. But now two California manufacturers have shown that turning out big pictures can be child's play. Los Angeles-based Metromedia Technologies uses computers to convert photos or other artwork into billboards up to 17 ft. by 54 ft. within just six hours. Another company, Torrance-based Computer Image Systems, is creating a 41-ft. portrait of Liza Minnelli that will rise this week over New York's Palace Theater...