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...sure, Moore and Miramax will find a new distributor; of that there is no question. What is particularly worrisome is that the interference of powerful media conglomerates in the dissemination of politically sensitive material has lately become routine. Two weeks ago, Sinclair Broadcast Group instructed its seven ABC affiliates not to air a Nightline segment displaying the names of over 500 U.S. soldiers killed in action in Iraq because, according to Sinclair’s statement, the company deemed the program politically motivated against U.S. efforts in that country. (Meanwhile, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., blasted Sinclair?...
...Despite the denials by a spokeswoman for the show, the action appears to be motivated by a political agenda designed to undermine the efforts of the U.S. in Iraq." SINCLAIR BROADCAST GROUP, explaining why the company pulled from its eight ABC-TV stations an edition of Nightline in which anchor Ted Koppel read aloud the names of all the U.S. service members killed in action in Iraq...
...February the U.S. Army suspended 17 guards at the prison. It became clear why last week, when pictures taken at the jail by the guards themselves were obtained and broadcast by CBS News. Image after image showed that soldiers at the prison had made sport of abusing and humiliating their wards. In one photo, two grinning guards give the thumbs-up as they stand before Iraqis who have been stripped naked and forced into a sexually suggestive dogpile. Another shows a prisoner forced to stand on a box, connected to electric wires and told, according to CBS, that he would...
...million Cost of 30 seconds of commercial time during the final episode of Friends on May 6, a record for a non--Super Bowl broadcast...
Yesterday afternoon, the Crimson (17-6, 7-0 Ivy) barely spared enough time to catch the ESPNews broadcast revealing that the squad had earned the 16-seed and the first two regional rounds would be played on Harvard turf at Beren Tennis Center...