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Norway, Sweden and the province of Quebec, however, have all banned child-targeted TV advertising. In Britain, the BBC has implemented a nutrition policy for its kids' characters, such as the Teletubbies, prohibiting them to be associated with junky fare...
...media outlet wishing to operate in China must compromise, as News Corp. officials know. In 1993, the company removed the BBC from its Chinese-language Star satellite network-which at the time had government permission to be shown in hotels and foreign compounds-after the British news service irritated Beijing with a series critical of Chairman Mao Zedong. But with 340 million TV households, China is a plummy market awaiting those who gain the government's favor. Last year, advertising reached $2.7 billion, up 11% over the year before. And Beijing is showing signs of loosening up. Earlier this year...
...could not be reached for comment. Jesus Mena, the Kennedy School’s communications director, said the dean is traveling in the United Kingdom and is slated to appear on BBC to discuss his latest book, Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics...
...paper would cease.' But, the Guardian conceded, 'we think he's worth it.' Most of Alistair Cooke's readers and listeners seem to agree. A nuisance he is to conventional thought, both in his column for the Guardian and in his Sunday evening broadcast from New York for the BBC ... Since his BBC broadcasts are beamed to stations throughout the world, he is one of the world's most influential commentators on U.S. affairs ... Cooke focuses on minutiae. As he sees it, they tell more about a culture than the big issues that engross most journalists. [On] reverence...
...Cooke's Tour Columnist and BBC commentator Alistair Cooke, who died in March [MILESTONES, April 12], dazzled radio listeners as an analyzer of American life for almost 60 years. When he celebrated his 1,000th broadcast for the British network 36 years ago, we described his journalistic habits [April...