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...shortening sentences. Sure, that's a hot button, but the public must come to realize that it can't enjoy its full measure of vengeance and expect at the same time to reduce bulging inmate populations. The citizenry must determine the minimum amount of punishment that it is willing to settle for, and then channel the millions it has saved into schools and preventive programs...
...portraying the park owner as a predatory capitalist who would kill Willy for the insurance money. And wrap this around the summer's favorite icon: the fatherless boy who teaches everyone else -- surrogate parents, adult friends and a nearby cetacean -- how to be human. The movie hits every emotional button with a firm fist. It makes the phrase feel-good sound like a command from the industry's P.C. Patrol...
...editorial cartoon by Pat Oliphant appeared in The Washington Post that has a fearsome resonance today. The panel shows an aging President Reagan telling handbag-toting Candidate Bush, "If you're ever in trouble, use THIS." Reagan is shown pointing at a button labeled "BOMB LIBYA." Coincidentally, an allegedly faltering president has just strafed the homeland of the new evil enemy...
Pursuing these high-impact, hot-button stories can pose dangers. For one thing, there is the tendency to overdramatize and oversimplify. The most notorious example was the rigged crash test of a GM truck on Dateline NBC. Though many network executives dismiss the incident as an aberration, it is symptomatic of the pressure to make stories that sizzle. "The constant race for ideas leads to a tendency to sensationalize and blow things out of proportion," says Everette Dennis, executive director of the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center...
...agree that those who feel the pain of gays and lesbians at Harvard [should use the speech] as a time not to take issue with Powell, but as a time to say something loving and supportive about gays and lesbians?" asked Dion, who was wearing a pink lapel button reading "Lift...