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...breed of entertainer known as the comedy jockey. Viewers will learn what she does on Wednesday, when the Comedy Channel, a new 24-hour cable service from HBO, goes on the air. It is one of two all-comedy networks getting set to square off on a new battlefield of yucks...
...earliest significant body of war coverage was the work of Roger Fenton, a well-to-do Englishman who left a career in law to devote himself to the camera. Fenton's scenes of the Crimean War, made in 1855, were discreet by the bloody standards of battlefield imagery to come: no pictures of combat, no punctured flesh that might offend Victorian sensibilities. No matter, they represented a watershed. With these views of officers at leisure and a stark gully littered with cannonballs, the curtain had gone up on the theater of combat...
Photojournalism was at war with itself over its essence. Studies of the battlefield were replaced by reflections on life-style: the camera discovered suburbia. In the view of dissidents like Smith, however, news photography had vitiated itself through overproduction. Continuous wire-service transmission and the conservatism of the postwar picture press had covered the world with images leached of their expressiveness and meaning. As Smith put it, "we are deluged with photography at its worst -- until the drone of superficiality threatens to numb our sensitivity to image...
...Vietnam War was fought "in country" in that the battlefield of that conflict was the entire countryside of Vietnam. Veterans of the war referred to their time spent "in country" as a way of separating their experiences in the war from their lives in "the world"--the term they used to refer to their homes back in America...
Germany's immediate aim is to rid itself of the burden of being Europe's battlefield. (Hence the campaign against short-range nuclear weapons and low- flying training aircraft.) Its medium-range interest is to rid itself of foreign soldiers, which would turn it from an instrument of alliance policy into an entirely independent entity of its own. But its long-range goal is reunification or, to paraphrase Secretary of State James Baker in another context, dreams of a Greater Germany...