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...They Run Joe Klein ignored the most important reason Barack Obama is winning: media adoration [Feb. 25]. Where is the scrutiny of Obama's flawed policy proposals, his attacks on Hillary Clinton's proposals, his business dealings and record in the Illinois state legislature? Television news programs relentlessly broadcast far more comments and video highly favorable to Obama. Klein repeatedly tells us Clinton is not inspirational, but millions of us find her very inspiring. We believe we are electing a President, not a television evangelist. Too bad the press disagrees. Our democracy is not well served. Horace Newton Barker...
...Klein ignored the most important reason Barack Obama is winning: media adoration [Feb. 25]. Where is the scrutiny of Obama's flawed policy proposals, his attacks on Hillary Clinton's proposals, his business dealings and record in the Illinois state legislature? Television news programs relentlessly broadcast far more comments and video highly favorable to Obama. Klein repeatedly tells us Clinton is not inspirational, but millions of us find her very inspiring. We believe we are electing a president, not a television evangelist. Too bad the press disagrees. Our democracy is not well served. Horace Newton Barker Jr., CHATTANOOGA, TENN...
...Indeed, we are today facing an ownership crisis in broadcast television. People of color make up 33 percent of our population but own just three percent of all broadcast TV stations—and research shows that the number of owners is plummeting at alarming levels. Despite repeated requests from more than 20 civil rights organizations, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has placed the future of media diversity in greater jeopardy by asking programmers of color to take a back seat to his favored special interests...
...Indeed, in the hours preceding the FCC vote, Martin blithely acknowledged that the new rule would make it harder for people of color and women to own broadcast stations. Martin has also been the subject of widespread criticism from the civil rights community for other efforts that would hamper African-American television programmers such as a la carte pricing and his campaign to award large swaths of cable channel space to incumbent broadcasters at the potential expense of programmers of color. The civil rights community accused the FCC and its chairman of aping an “anti-diversity agenda...
...upper market Japanese audio firms, with an investment by the private-equity group Ripplewood Holdings. Soon after, D&M went on a consolidation spree, snapping up additional A/V brands like Boston Acoustics, Snell Acoustics, Replay TV, Escient and recently Calrec Audio, a British company that builds mixing consoles for broadcast production. Mac fit as the crown jewel. "I call us a big start-up," says Victor Pacor, D&M's president. In the past fiscal year, the company had sales of almost $1 billion and earnings of $53 million...