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...Macintosh computer has never lacked for enthusiasts ready to paint the machine with cosmic significance. More than any other personal computer, the Mac comes wrapped in hype, most of it directly traceable to Steven Jobs, former chairman of Apple. He loved to tell his designers that the computer they were building -- with its icons, its pull-down menus and its mouse -- would not only change the world, but also "put a dent in the universe." As if to hammer his point home to the rest of America, Jobs launched the new machine in January 1984 with the famously melodramatic commercial...
Exam period--death for a Harvard Crimson sports reporter. There are no late-breaking stories. No one's hired. No one's fired. There are no scandals. Not even any leads for scandals. In fact, there aren't even any rivalries to hype, any big games--there are hardly any games...
...certain degree, they're the only games in town, and I think when there's not a log going on, it gets a little more hype, and a lot more interest...
...fashioned, roll-up-your-sleeves journalism. What's more, at a time when the network- magazine shows are not only embracing more sensational material but also getting into serious trouble for employing some irresponsible techniques (as in Dateline NBC's use of explosive charges to hype a report on safety problems in General Motors pickup trucks) -- these second-class citizens of the news world believe they can legitimately demand respect...
...special offerings for World AIDS Day on Dec. 1 display the sort of programming making MTV News popular. This is not the statistics and facts of conventional news; rather MTV mixes a little hip and a little hype to push news the young viewers can use. MTV Brazil next week will feature two segments, "Have You Tested for HIV+?" and "Hearing the Results," which explain how to get tested and how to tell others the outcome. MTV Europe offers the human angle, profiling a day in the life of a "Buddy," a young volunteer who cares for an AIDS patient...