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Televangelism is a special kind of big business. In less than two decades, the vocation of preaching the Word of God via video has grown from hardscrabble beginnings into far-flung real estate and broadcast empires with assets ranging in the hundreds of millions of dollars. In almost every instance, those holdings are dominated by a single dynamic individual who decides how the money will be spent and who strives, above all, to keep vital donations flowing from the faithful...
...contentious dramatic literature: Hoffman's As Is, Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, Harvey Fierstein's Safe Sex, Robert Chesley's Jerker, or the Helping Hand, Alan Bowne's Beirut. The D.C. Cabaret Troupe is performing its new musical, A Dance Against Darkness: Living with AIDS, in Washington. NBC broadcast the first AIDS TV movie, An Early Frost, in 1985, and this week CBS airs An Enemy Among Us, in which a teenager gets AIDS from a transfusion...
...results have apparently disturbed the networks. People-meter ratings have turned out to be as much as 10% lower than the traditional readings. Some - broadcast executives believe younger viewers record their habits more faithfully on the new meters, while older people who are not comfortable with high-tech gadgets ignore them. CBS complains that Nielsen's people-meter sample is skewed disproportionately to families with cable, who watch less network...
...truth, the PBS broadcast was less a debate than a video dating service for Democrats. This image was enhanced by a format that included 90-second filmed autobiographies of each contender. There was something almost comic in the intense friendliness of seven candidates introducing themselves like this: "Hello there. I'm Congressman Dick Gephardt from Missouri. The Gephardt family is here in front of our home in Great Falls...
...avoid controversial topics that might stir complaints. Yet it has a diverse corps of defenders, including Conservative Phyllis Schlafly and Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader, as well as most members of Congress. The rule, they argue, is a crucial way of giving ordinary citizens access to the electronic media: broadcast outlets, though more plentiful < today, are still sought-after and expensive properties available to only a few. Nor, they contend has the doctrine had the chilling effect that some claim. Between 1984 and 1986, the FCC received 19,565 fairness complaints. But it pursued only 18 of them with the station...