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Meanwhile, charitainment became a bona fide TV genre. Joining the ABC do-gooder hit Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and Oprah's giveaways and crusades was Three Wishes, in which Christian-rock singer Amy Grant bestows largesse on needy people every week. Time was, the occasional celebrity like Audrey Hepburn would lend her profile to a cause. But Grant and Makeover's Ty Pennington are a distinct kind of charitainment star, celebrities whose good deeds are their chief claim to fame. Their shows aim not just to solve personal problems (help autistic kids, build a school library) but also to salve...
...should say that we have enough nuclear bombs to defend against a U.S. attack." KIM GYE GWAN, North Korean Vice Foreign Minister, talking about Pyongyang's long-suspected nuclear capabilities in an interview with America's ABC News...
...game plan, it seems, will be to ramp up the raunch: he aims to broadcast a woman having late-night phone sex with a listener on one of his channels, and he?s talking about airing a parody of the ABC show The View, called Crack ?Ho View and featuring drug addicts discussing politics. The risk with getting more outrageous: that Stern turns off more listeners than he lures. As he closes in on his mid-50s, moreover, no one knows if the young guys who form his core audience will stay loyal, especially since there are so many other...
...Robbins points his finger at the “media,” which he believes was responsible for faulty reporting during the war’s earliest stages and continues to do so. “The shameful thing is that CNN allowed that to happen. And NBC, ABC, and the rest [of the major news outlets],” Robbins says. “There was no journalist standing in the way at the time, even though we all knew what was going on.”When questioned as to why he felt it necessary for artists...
This poll was conducted for TIME, ABC News, the BBC, NHK and Der Spiegel by Oxford Research International. Interviews were conducted in person from Oct. 8 to Nov. 13, in Arabic and Kurdish, among a random national sample of 1,711 Iraqis age 15 and older. Margin of error is +/- 2.5 percentage points...