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...Majority leaders in protesting sex and violence on TV. Then something -- God knows what -- happened. Last year Turner's superstation WTBS banned all religious programming, including Falwell's Old-Time Gospel Hour. Now antiabortion activists, whom the cable mogul has publicly called "bozos," are furious because Turner's CNN broadcast an early National Park Service estimate of 60,000 supporters at the recent Washington rally, rather than the 500,000 claimed by pro-lifers. And, accepting an award as Humanist of the Year at a convention in Orlando, Turner, who has called Christianity a "religion for losers," had some harsh...
...aesthetic he helped create. In newspapers, "graphs, charts and larger-than-ever pictures tell the big story at a glance. Today's movie scripts are some 25% shorter than those of the 1940s for the same length movies." Even TV is cutting back, providing more news stories on every broadcast and less material in each...
Other oddities abound. How can the economy remain prosperous when half the work force lazes around luncheonettes and broadcast studios swapping dirty- word-free double entendres, while the other half consists of overworked and underappreciated cops? And why are all these people so hazy about their history? Is it not peculiar that no one ever refers to an event that predates Elvis' appearing on Ed Sullivan...
...Mongolia's isolation lifts, outside influences seep in. English is taught in schools and on television. Western pop culture -- from rock music to lambada dancing -- has invaded the cities. And the infectious spirit of Eastern Europe's pro-democracy parties is broadcast directly into many Mongolian homes, courtesy of Soviet television...
...accomplish more in video magazines than you can in print magazines," contends Terry Jastrow, head of a joint ABC/Jack Nicklaus Productions venture that publishes the bimonthly Wide World of Golf. "And you have the time to do it in a video magazine that you don't have in a broadcast...