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...three main characters are roommates who could be the three Musketeers, except that their motto is simply, "All for one." David (Christopher Eccleston), a bland accountant, Alex (Ewan McGregor), a cocky journalist, and Juliet (Kerry Fox), a frosty doctor, all live together in a flat in urban Scotland...
...knew ``painfully little'' about computers and modems, let alone the Internet, when he decided last September to take a course called 2001: A Media Odyssey. Like several of his classmates, he had never even used E-mail before. After 14 weeks of training under the direction of new-media journalist Katherine Fulton, however, Hobson and his 15 classmates were changed forever. From skeptical techno- Philistines, they had been transformed into fully rated Internauts, ready and eager to navigate the digital future. As he finished creating a home page on the World Wide Web, Hobson admitted, ``I'm amazed that...
...member. ``Excrement!'' cried another. He got so much electronic hate mail that he had to turn off his mailbox. ``The impression I got was, `We don't want snoopy reporters in here. This is our playground, and you're not welcome,' '' Bauman said later. Bauman was hardly the first journalist to get beaten up in cyberspace. Every reporter who ventures there soon learns how prickly its inhabitants can be about stories that reinforce the stereotype of the Net as a place where only spies, hackers and child molesters live. Editors are also discovering that the information highway...
...chains by the gross, drop in on group sex and download more explicit pictures than are displayed in a decade's worth of Hustler. In one day, I've read more intimate confessions than are found in a year's worth of Penthouse letters. All this as an objective journalist, mind you. I report on cybersex, but I don't give it my essence...
...only did police fail to beef up surveillance after a warning that a security-company robbery was being planned, but when the theft took place, most of the Brink's-Allied security staff were caught off guard in the canteen. The fiasco nearly turned tragic a week later, when journalist Veronica Guerin, who had written a profile of the chief suspect, was wounded at her home by a gunman; police believe the attack was linked to her report. Says actress Catherine Punch, 27: ``People tend to glamourize criminals and say, `Whoa, they got away with it.' If the police make...