Word: televison
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...interesting to compare the mass media's depiction of Asians with that of Blacks. Although racial prejudice against Blacks has certainly not been eradicated, white Americans are now more sensitive to the old images of Blacks as Mammies, slaves, whores or pimps. And while Blacks on televison and in the film industry are still under-represented, artists like Spike Lee and Bill Cosby have opened up American media to positive, or at least intelligent, portrayals of the lives of Blacks in America...
...suicide is shown on the news that night, a grisly reminder of the Philadelphia station that broadcast the public suicide of the Pennsylvania treasurer (who was under indictment) a couple of years ago. In that particular case, televison clearly did overstep an unspoken boundary by showing one of life's truly, indisputably private moments...
...1980s have surely been the decade of empire revivalism. From the masterful televison adaptation of Paul Scott's Raj Quartet to an inept film of E.M. Forster's A Pasage to India--even Bertolucci's The Last Emperor--films about imperialism, and particularly its demise, have become hits here and in Europe. Offering torrid plots set in tropical lands, films about empire have the perfect formula for success--glory, romance, violence and politics...
Hunt said "The Room" is just one in a series of Pinter plays that will be produced for prime-time televison and directed by Robert Altman "for NBC or ABC, I can't keep them straight...
Paradoxically, televison's "defining" moment is not usually defined at the time. The moment gains resonance through hindsight. The original memory is adjusted and tinkered with by what comes afterward. Reviewing the Kennedy- Nixon debates reveals that Kennedy was almost as nervous and stilted as Nixon. In the end, the benefit Bush can draw from his tangle with Rather will depend on whether viewers recall it as a moment of justified indignation or as a peevish attempt to avoid coming to terms with the Iran-contra affair. It could go either way, for in fact it was both...