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...after getting an interoffice memo from London headquarters warning that Her Majesty's Customs and Excise Service was threatening to confiscate flak jackets needed in Bosnia. Customs, according to the memo, had also become concerned about whether four-wheel-drive vehicles were being illegally exported. It added, "The BBC, presumably in their eyes a well-known terrorist group, would be treated like any other potential mercenary." The document concluded with the sarcastic assertion that should any staffer get "shot dead by some scumbag in Bosnia," the BBC would definitely complain...
Once again, U.S. audiences have the British to thank for doing overdue justice to an icon of American popular culture. This first-ever TV version of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess comes not from an American network but from the BBC. The director is a seasoned hand at such transatlantic transactions: Trevor Nunn, former head of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the man who brought Cats and Les Miserables to Broadway...
...above the equator has suddenly become one of the world's most coveted media properties. The satellite, partly owned by a fledgling Hong Kong company, has a simple function: it transmits a service called STAR TV, for Satellite Television Asia Region, which beams such Western television fare as the BBC and American programming such as Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous and MTV to impoverished slum dwellers in Cairo and the nouveaux riches in Zhangzhou. Though its current audience is a mere 13 million, the reason for its value is the size of its potential market: 3 billion people...
...just as culture for the elite is so often public, like museums and libraries, the very highest of high. TV news is public access programming. NPR, PRS, WGBH and BBC have great merit, but narrowly circumscribed viewer appeal this is why they are always scraping for support from viewers like...
...correspondent for the BBC asked me how real Clinton's troubles are, and what their source is. Never mind that I haven't been to Washington since the Bush Inauguration--I was duly, even solemnly, questioned about the $200 haircut and the inexperience of the White House Staff...