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...Congress, the forces of commercial television are overwhelming the true believers in quality children's programming. Peggy Charren, founder of the now defunct advocacy group Action for Children's Television, says, "There are more choices than when I began act 27 years ago because of cable and the vcr, but broadcast television has just gotten worse. What's so sad is that's all that's available to poor children, and they are the ones who need the most help." Newton N. Minow, the former fcc chairman who called TV a "vast wasteland" in 1961, argues in a new book...
...Mari Maseng, wife of conservative columnist George Will, a Dole aide admitted that the Senator also had not seen most of the movies he talked about, nor had he heard most of the music. On Friday aboard his Gulfstream jet, Dole finally popped Natural Born Killers into the VCR. "Probably ought to take a look so I can say I've seen this thing,'' he joked to a TIME reporter over the phone. "Then we can always throw it out the window...
...after a relative gambled away his rent and utility money, leaving his credit record in ruins. A cook at Denny's, he pays $380 a month for a small room that he has made into a home: a microwave, a tabletop refrigerator, a coffee maker, a hot plate, a vcr, a collection of 28 beer steins and an aquarium with tropical fish complement a ragged sofa with foam spilling out of the cushions and a filthy shag carpet. "I want to be left alone," says Doherty, whose back was injured in a tank accident in the Army. "When I come...
...information theorists talk endlessly about the debate over commercialism on the net, about its scientific and academic uses. But what of the use of the net for more. Shall we say, "private" endeavors? Pornography has always driven new media; recall, if you will, the popularization of the VHS VCR, fueled largely by the availability of skin flicks on VHS format. Without touching upon the moral and social argument which surrounds the issue of erotica, the fact remains that people want to get off, and they want it in large enough numbers to warrant a huge industry devoted toward that...
...enthusiastically about multimedia but remained skeptical: after all, they had come to believe the Americans were the has-beens of the electronics business. Besides, Japan's strength lay in hardware, not fuzzy concepts. For Japanese firms, the real battle would be for the next big gadget to follow the vcr, which in 1993 was worth $7.7 billion to Japanese firms alone. As a Sony executive scoffed two years ago, ``Multimedia is just a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Nobody knows where...