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...traveling like an over-the-road trucker trying to roll his rig home before morning," TIME reported. California Governor Earl Warren found a new way to campaign: "He made a little history. Appearing on a CBS television program, he proved himself the best campaigner yet on the newest communications medium to reach into the U.S. home. His big, square-cut Scandinavian face was etched handsomely on the screen." Editor Henry Luce seemed rather partial to General Dwight Eisenhower, despite Ike's refusal to run; TIME called him "the people's first choice" and lauded his firm stance against the G.O.P...
...Experience several of aforementioned problems. Reflect on fact that the World Wide Web is, after all, a medium essentially devoted to text. That I don't really need a functioning, controllable live camera in the middle of a convention hall to become a better-informed voter. That the web sites of candidates and parties and news organizations offer articles and statements and position papers - thousands of them! - that I could visit right now, without needing any special plug-ins, and read to my heart's content about the issues facing the electorate in the first presidential election of the 21st...
...documents the immigrant experience of that famous portal to America, from the chalk marks put on the coats of those with health problems to the Austrian woman who thought the Statue of Liberty was a statue of Columbus. It's a story that deserves to be retold in every medium, and it's told well in this...
...vehicle for social change, the open letter has accomplished just slightly more than the limerick, but it remains a wonderful medium for airing public squabbles. Spike Lee's most recent venting appeared in the Hollywood Reporter, decrying the curious lack of slaves in the Mel Gibson movie The Patriot, set in 1776. "While holding myself back from shouting at the screen, I kept wondering, Where are the slaves? Who's picking the cotton?" Indeed, screenwriter Robert Rodat gives Gibson's South Carolina gentleman farmer a cadre of African-American "employees" who refer to themselves as free men. "Did Rodat...
...most of the world today, the answer is "Nowhere." Almost every government in the world, following the lead of the U.S., refrains from taxing the Internet, for fear of stunting the world's most exciting new commercial medium. But the honeymoon may soon be over. In Europe, Luxembourg may be about to become the first cornucopia of Web sales taxes--at least if the European Union's executive body, the European Commission...