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BUJUMBURA, Burundi: The Central African country of Burundi has a bloody three year old civil war between the Tutsi and Hutu tribes climaxed yesterday with a military coup as the Tutsis, who control the military, took over the government. Today, in a radio broadcast to the nation, the new Tutsi President Pierre Buyoya, freshly-installed by the army, demanded that the international community respond to the coup as an action of salvation intended to stop Burundi's "descent into hell." The new military regime, Buyoya said, would bring a quick end to the massacres and "criminality." Meanwhile, President Sylvestre Ntibantunganya...
...Tofflers, who made this market in the first place, hope to cash in as well. To that end, FutureNet is talking with cable and broadcast channels and several Fortune 20-size companies about financial backing and developmental partnerships. The Tofflers have also recruited as executive partners TV producer Al Burton (Charles in Charge) and the tech-savvy film producer and entrepreneur Jeff Apple (In the Line of Fire). The tone of FutureNet's offerings, Toffler says, will be "not just for the digerati and not heavy. After all," he laughs, "it's television...
Relief came last week in a landmark ruling that firmly extends the umbrella of the First Amendment over cyberspace. A panel of three federal judges, specially convened in Philadelphia to review the new law, pronounced the government's attempt to regulate online content more closely than print or broadcast media "unconstitutional on its face" and "profoundly repugnant." The Justice Department was enjoined from not only enforcing the act but even investigating alleged malfeasance, at least...
Advertisers have for years been looking for more creative ways of disguising their pitches. Infomercials that air on many cable and broadcast channels are designed to look like talk shows and other entertainment programs; those minute-long "Movie News" segments, frequently run during local newscasts, may look like clips from Entertainment Tonight, but they are actually commercials for Disney films. In 1994 NBC aired a prime-time special on the newly opened Treasure Island resort and casino in Las Vegas that was produced by Stephen Wynn, who owns the place. ABC, CBS and NBC have all run prime-time specials...
...show (which started covering other stories as the crisis dragged on) was just 15 minutes long at first. It later expanded to a bloated hour for one year before settling into the current half-hour interview-plus-analysis format that, over 16 years, has become the most important news broadcast on American television...