Word: networked
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Automobile radio telephones connect to telephone network...
...Network television begins...
...legislators having quietly allowed plans for a congressional inquiry into the Easter Saturday raid on the Little Havana home to drift off into the ether. The story that had supplanted the death of Princess Diana and stood second only to the O. J. Simpson trial in the extent of network news coverage had all but disappeared from the media over the past six weeks, as Elian and five Cuban playmates romped around estates in Maryland and Washington, D.C., and his Miami relatives filed perfunctory protests with various courts...
...concerning that noble vegetable. Recognizing the danger inherent in such a scenario, in 1975 the regulators at the Federal Communications Commission stepped in and made a decree: No one entity may own more than one news outlet in any city, and no company may own more than one broadcast network. Such rules, for example, led to media mogul Rupert Murdoch being obliged to divest himself of the Boston Herald in the early '90s as a condition of his purchase of Fox's Boston affiliate...
This story of the 1990 obscenity case over a Robert Mapplethorpe exhibit nearly got an NC-17 rating, until the network cut the screen time for Mapplethorpe's haunting, sexually explicit photos. If only it had shown them longer--for 90 minutes, say--and ditched the rest of this mechanical, insultingly didactic placard. James Woods begins playing besieged Cincinnati museum director Dennis Barrie less as a saint than a fish-out-of-SoHo aesthete. But the nuance is soon lost in a film that wants to be an agitprop documentary, interrupting its storyline with interviews of mostly pro-Mapplethorpe notables...