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...activists. (One prominent activist is Barbara Walters, who clearly does not feel that the news need burden us with the vagaries of war or crime so long as a star or Kennedy is around to be interviewed.) This in part betrays the intellectualist biases of the anti-television crusaders. CNN is undoubtedly the most violent network on television, yet its proprietor Ted Turner can, without any irony at all, testify before a Senate Panel about the ills of TV violence...
Cover: Illustration for TIME by Matt Mahurin. Photograph courtesy CNN...
Michael Jordan is a prisoner, a prisoner of his talent and his public mythology. Both aspects of the Jordan imprisonment were on display last week when Jordan announced his retirement from the game he played better than anyone else.CBS, NBC and CNN covered the event live, treating the press conference with the kind of portentousness usually reserved for invasions or civil wars. A relaxed but resolute Jordan said he was quitting because he had nothing left to prove, because the thrill was gone. "I've always stressed to people that have known me and the media that has followed...
...fastened to CNN, makes a valuable witness. But it has a tendency to stir people to bursts of indignation that flare briefly, spectacularly and ineffectually, like a fire splashed with a cup of gasoline...
...Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard when Bette does the aging diva right here? She tells us, in a cunning rap song, that she's been compromised, Disneyized, classified, Jurassified. "I don't get out much anymore," she demurely declares, adding that mostly she sits "in my star trailer watching CNN. I know what everyone in Bosnia is wearing." She frets that she has Oldtimer's disease, or at least Part-timer's ("Did I sing the ballad yet? Was it wonderful?"). She also purports to worry about sullying her "newfound stature." When her backup trio, "the politically correct Harlettes," starts...