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...work anymore? His most acclaimed teleplays (Marty, The Bachelor Party) live on chiefly because of their movie adaptations, and Chayefsky himself (who died in 1981) is destined to be remembered more for his savage 1976 satire of television, Network, than for the work he did when he and the medium were on better terms...
...nicely played by Mary Stuart Masterson and Brian Benben -- are bickering their way toward divorce even though they're still in love; a satire of all the conventions of big-time radio, circa 1939; a group caricature of all the types -- frantic sound-effects man, silky-voiced announcer -- the medium once nurtured...
...look at [Staples] in any broader societal terms it was a huge idea in terms of helping medium-sized and smaller businesses compete effectively with businesses of all sizes," says Bailey, an investment consultant. "Staples has made office supplies hugely cheaper to small and medium sized businesses. In terms of social good, that is a huge accomplishment...
Perhaps in the distant future of "cyberpaper" will replace the tree based variety as a medium for printed material. But I believe that this will not happen until such cyberpaper could be endowed with the look and feel of the free-sniff. The convenience and disposability (sorry, environmentalists!) of the traditional medium for outweigh any advantages a 1990s' cyberpaper could possibly have...
...only reasonable value of online publication lies in the fact that the new medium has the potential of being a universal source for archive retrieval. That is, rather than serving as the front end for the distribution of information, online publications will always be available as a supplemental resource to traditional means of communication...