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President Clinton has denounced it, Disney's buyout of ABC may have foreshadowed it, and thelong-distance telephone and cable companies are lobbying furiously to make it the law of the land. After midnight Thursday, the House is expected to pass a major telecommunications reform package that could transform the marketplace, freeing cable-TV and local and long-distance telephone companies to get into each other's businesses. Critics, including the President, worry that such massive deregulation would encourage media firms like Disney to merge into near-monopolies. "They're taking it up in the middle of the night, when...
...ethics panel has other fish to fry. Members reportedly have sent Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wy.), one of Packwood's chief defenders, a letter asking how he managed to obtain the statements by two witnesses in its Packwood investigation that he discussed last Thursday on ABC-TV's "Nightline." (One statement said a woman who accused Packwood of sexual misconduct had herself made advances on him.) Simpson, who has accused Packwood critics of leaking unfavorable material, told the Associated Press today that he was simply circulating the "other side" of the story...
...disclosures appear in Divided Lives (Simon & Schuster; $23), by a close friend of Worby's, Washington Post reporter Elsa Walsh, who set out to penetrate the ambivalences of three accomplished women as they struggle to balance their professional and private lives. Besides conductor Worby, the book includes chapters on ABC television personality Meredith Vieira and Dr. Alison Estabrook, chief of breast surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan. But it was the Worby chapter that provoked its own backlash last week, not only because of Worby's frank discussion of her sexual history (and the tattoo emblazoned...
...morning thatDisneywill acquire Capital Cities/ABC in a $19 billion merger. The deal would be the second-largest takeover in U.S. history (behind the $25 billion takeover of RJR-Nabisco in 1989) and the largest ever in the media business. Getting hitched to family-friendly Disney may mean top-rated ABC will see its competitors exploiting new counterprogramming opportunities. "I think ABC will probably steer away from the more lurid programs, which might make the other networks go in that direction," said Time's Jeffrey Ressner in Los Angeles. The merger, already approved by the boards of both companies, is expected...
...other "traditional" shows are more or less what could be expected: "Christy," "ABC Family Movie," "Home Improvement," "Touched by an Angel," "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" and "Me and the Boys." But no one ever defines the term "traditional." What does it mean? And why is it inherently conservative somehow? The welfare system has become a tradition, and I don't see anyone rushing to claim it. Traditional values can mean anything from racism to stay-at-home mothers...