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During the summers between his college years, Restic was a pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies organization. Playing for a farm team in Salina, Ks., a medium-sized city about 15 miles from Ike Eisenhower's hometown, he had the experience of striking out Mickey Mantle, then a player for the Yankees' Joplin, Mo. farm team. Unbeknownst to him, however, his pro play was illegal given his school-year activities at Villanova, an infringement he paid for by forfeiting two years of eligibility at the college...
Describing television's replacement of radio and newspapers as the country's most influential journalistic medium, Schorr paraphrased essayist E.B. White...
...Stern and Limbaugh make it a more interactive, more personal experience," says Everette Dennis of Columbia University."They make it a better, more vibrant medium. It's the triumph of the individual." Limbaugh regularly calls himself "the most dangerous man in America." Stern uses the very phrase to describe himself. The truth is, neither is very dangerous. Rather, the fact that either is seriously considered a threat, that 34% of Americans (and 48% of Democrats) think the government should not allow Rush to make fun of the Clintons on the air, according to the TIME/CNN poll, is more worrisome than...
...passive experiences. The VR games are interactive. And the more active you are, the more you can enter into them. Players who hone their kill skills develop a zestful proficiency; they become self-improvement junkies while the merchants get rich. VR can also be a socializing medium, even of the zap-you're-dead! variety. TV, video games and videocassettes keep folks hermited away; VR gets them out of the house with a new gimmick -- a twist on the lures that '50s moviemakers, faced with the challenge of TV, offered film audiences with Cinerama's roller-coaster ride...
Senator Earnest Hollings railed against an episode of CBS' "Love and War" which featured a violent fight scene; he didn't realize that the show was intended as a job at Congressional concern with TV violence. The Senators seem hopelessly befuddled by the idiom of the medium that they yearn to regulate...