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...decided itself.” “She’s involved with a lot of different kinds of art, and I think in the future she’ll continue to be prolific in a lot of different mediums,” says friend Martabel A. Wasserman...
...Indeed, much of what the British media have focused on this week is considered old news at home. "His presidency is also highly controversial in South Africa and is being debated by the public and civil society who are holding him to account," University of Sheffield journalism lecturer Herman Wasserman says. "[It has] created a robust debate about him, which has caused his approval to be at a low point at the moment." Raymond Louw, editor and publisher of the Southern Africa Report, a South Africa-based weekly, believes Zuma's recent behavior in some ways merits the crude treatment...
However, some media analysts believe there are more sinister motivations behind the media's preoccupation with Zuma. "Just using the word 'buffoon' harks back to an era of portraying Africans as simple and less educated," Wasserman says. Richard Lance Keeble, a professor of journalism at the University of Lincoln in northern England, says the British tabloid obsession with sex and sleaze drives the type of coverage seen with Zuma. "Add to that heady brew a pinch of unacceptable racism and you can easily explain the tabloid treatment of President Zuma's visit to London this week...
...didn’t fit into what the conventional idea of a talk is,” said Martha A. “Martabel” Wasserman ’10, who is writing a senior thesis on the “ACT UP” exhibition...
...long time been a troubled business. Content has never been king. The reality is that, wonderful as it is, the value of it doesn't go to the shareholders. Movie moguls need to be smart about how to manage talent. The reason [longtime Universal Studios owner] Lew Wasserman was able to make more money than anyone was that he set the culture of the industry. In his day there was an unspoken understanding of how you did business, a culture of co-operation. Somewhere along the way it became cool to steal talent at a bigger price - it made...