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...this unnamed official consented to be interviewed. Government officials do not talk to the press off-the-record out of the goodness of their hearts or from a profound respect for the democratic process. Instead, officials leak information because it is in their interest to have a certain message broadcast by the media...
WITH ANY LUCK, thought Captain Singh, this is my last broadcast to Earth. I'm tired of being a hero, and a slightly premature one at that. Many things could still go wrong, as indeed they already have...
...broadcast on Telebe Setouchi, a Japanese network, showed the students working, visiting the Hiroshima memorial and relaxing at Japanese karaoke nightclubs...
...ways that made them sound educational. Take one station's description of G.I. Joe: "The Joes fight against an evil that has the capabilities of mass destruction of society." Says Peggy Charren, founder of Action for Children's Television, who lobbied for the law: "The response of the broadcast industry to its new mandate to serve children is horrifying once you stop laughing. If their lawyers weren't drunk, they must be sick." Not necessarily. Regulators in the Reagan Administration once tried to cut funds for school lunch programs by classifying catsup as a vegetable...
...cloudburst of speculation about how they would affect the race. In fact, a plausible scenario could be made for just about any result other than a Perot victory. Never before in the media age has an independent candidate had the money to match the major-party candidates in broadcast advertising. Never before have there been three televised debates so close together. The impact of these firsts cannot yet be calibrated. Together, however, they just might serve to focus attention on important issues, like the economy, rather than on the incessant assaults on character that have marked much of the race...