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...most importantly the Clowes sensibility has successfully made it into movie theaters. It's too bad that it takes a movie to expose vast numbers of people to Clowes' pessimistic universe of the lummoxes, schlubs, and dorks who made the Wendy's foodchain possible and who write "comix" review columns on "the web." Some may even wonder if by making a film the creators are implicitly entering the very universe of mass-cult they rail against in the picture. Fear not. Unlike those shrill, hard-sell teen comedies on the other screens, "Ghost World" never becomes the kind of empty...
...taught us, it's that the new and improved Microsoft is prepared to retreat at the first whiff of consumer backlash. So if you care at all about the right of web designers to use whatever language they like without fear of users being blocked from seeing their efforts, write Microsoft and let them know you'll be thinking twice about purchasing XP. After all, it's a pretty dreary world without a regular shot of Java...
...beaten up. Today, censorship and physical intimidation are verboten, but heavy-handed habits die hard. The presidential Blue House still pressures editors to change copy, sometimes successfully. Says Kim Young Bae, who has just finished a stint as editorial page chief at the JoongAng Daily: "Any time we write anything critical of the President or government policy, we get calls, sometimes...
...same time, the media aren't getting a lot of sympathy from the public. The media are considered quick to use their power to threaten re-putations and prone to taking bribes from sources. What's more, media owners have avoided tax probes in the past by threatening to write embarrassing stories about tax officials, says opposition lawmaker Lee Bu Young, a former journalist...
...called on the government to set up an independent panel to unravel the media mess. The more likely scenario, skeptics say, is years of wrangling in court over the fines, or a backroom deal that will get the media off the tax hook?and, perhaps, encourage them to write sentiments a little bit sweeter...