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...focusing on itself the media has created an elite world in which it can self-referentially debate without ever acknowledging the possibility of other voices. If newsworthiness is discussed to the exclusion of those researched facts we once called news, that rocky slope of basic oversight—and of the media’s spurious megalomania—draws ever near. But who, en route, will fault a little gazing in the mirror? In these spectacular times, image is everything...
...Steorts forgets that wages “determined” by the free market are often insufficient to meet the most basic standards of living, a reality that led to the passage of the Fair Labor Standards...
...industry has vastly changed in recent years. Television advertisement costs have tripled over the last two decades; movie production costs have plummeted. And yet the formulas used to decide the “residuals” that fall to writers have not kept up. When the residual formulas for basic cable networks were drawn up in the early 1980s, cable companies were in their infancy. Today, over 70 percent of American households have basic cable, and five major cable companies now out-profit the small “weblet” networks—UPN, Fox and WB?...
...another long day, Zinwue hands the few francs she has earned to her "tante"--the common term of respect for older women in Francophone Africa. But because she has never been to school, her French is halting and basic. "I don't care that I have not been to school," she says firmly, "but I would like to go to church." Even that small dream remains impossible. She has to work on Sundays...
...news refueled some ancient rivalries, revived the most basic questions about what price our children pay for the hours we work and the choices we make. Parents peered into the data looking for themselves, but clear distinctions were hard to find. So far, the unpublished study has offered us only two kinds of children: those raised at home by their mothers (about 1 in 4 children) and everyone else. Which begs the question that the researchers didn't even pretend to answer: Why would kids who are cared for by anyone other than Mom develop disruptive behaviors, and what should...