Word: channelized
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...lives in a pervasive culture of spin and hype, the agitated, drooling and unembarrassable twin children of publicity. Spin and hype, working mostly through the magic of television, create a sort of virtual reality in which no one is quite accountable and consequences can be annulled by changing the channel -- or adducing a childhood trauma. That powerful universe of sensational illusion has increasingly come to determine the moral atmosphere of America. The virtual world of trailer-park daytime television even has its academic counterpart in structuralism and deconstruction, whose practitioners sever reality from "text" and thereby render everything vulnerable...
Barry Diller, QVC Network chairman and a failed contender for Paramount. Starting up Q2, a second, allegedly hipper shopping channel aimed at Generation X consumers who are presumably uninterested in cubic zirconium. Reported to be planning a takeover run at Time Warner, but denies these rumors as "silly nonsense...
John Malone, Tele-Communications Inc. chairman and Barry Diller ally in the Paramount battle. Engaged in a love-hate relationship with Viacom -- currently talking to Sumner Redstone about buying Viacom's cable systems while fending off Viacom's massive antitrust suit. Also testily pulled Viacom's the Movie Channel from TCI's cable systems...
...blitz of products and wall videos that aim to recycle folks back to the parks and theaters. "This summer," says Eisner, "the stores will be geared to our new animated feature, The Lion King. You can also buy tickets for the park there. You can learn about the Disney Channel. It's all woven together." The Greeks had a word for it: $ynergy...
...crime, and two weeks later it's a TV movie" -- and in the next breath give a rave review to the Menendez circus. "A-list, A-list!" he rhapsodizes. "It's the only A-list trial in America for quite some time. Hey, it even launched a cable channel...