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...Shaath's well-appointed home--an incongruous sight in the midst of Gaza's rubble--one TV is tuned to CNN, another to Israeli television. Various radios blare with election news. The guests fidget and curse Peres' rival, Benjamin Netanyahu. "It's amazing," Shaath says, "for decades, each Israeli Prime Minister was as bad for us as every other. But this time our whole future is on the line. This is our election too, so of course we're all anxious--and believe me, no one is more anxious than Arafat. Given where we are with the peace process...
...families of ValuJet crash victims who received packages from the law firm of Coale & Van Susteren offering to represent them in return for 25% of any money the airline awards them. At least one package contained a picture and biography of Van Susteren, now a co-anchor on the CNN program Burden of Proof. While sending unsolicited offers isn't illegal, it is kind of cheesy, especially since the couple's firm has already been censured for soliciting clients in West Virginia. But John Coale pleads not guilty to using his wife's celebrity to reel in business. "Greta...
...Buchanan left that night to campaign in South Carolina, Harvard Republicans joined their national counterparts in dropping their collective jaws at the prospect of the former host of CNN's Crossfire winning the Republican nomination...
...Time Warner, along with three other United States companies, has a vertical media monopoly. Time Warner itself controls a major motion picture studio, six publishing houses, 24 magazines, seven cable channels and eight music companies. It is about to merge with Turner Broadcasting, itself a media powerhouse centered on CNN. General Electric owns NBC network news, soon to be a comprehensive multimedia news service on MSNBC, nine television stations and more than 10 cable channels. Disney owns ABC network news, 21 ABC radio stations, 18 television stations, five motion picture studios, two publishing houses, eight cable channels, 11 newspapers...
...quality of life that it cannot have while being daily inundated with the absurd "infotainment" thrust into its citizens' homes. Children grow up literally addicted to television and to the self-debasing consumerism fostered by the media trusts. Our future is threatened as much by NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN as it is by MTV, itself the child of media giant Viacom...