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...wireless voice message endures as an alternative to the gross and growing limitations of United States newspapers and broadcast journalism aimed at lower-class audiences, and to the continuing narrowness of the World Wide Web. In a post-1960s university, overseas radio offers a portal opening on planetary discussion, albeit a portal open far wider to undergraduates learned in languages other than English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Night Static | 3/1/1996 | See Source »

...Diller has chosen to put his credibility on the line and build his very own empire more or less from scratch. "This is either a worthwhile or worthless proving ground," he says, though it is not quite self-evident, of his efforts to cobble together a new broadcast TV network from a collection of end-of-the-dial stations that in total reach roughly 35% of the country's viewing audience. At this point it would be America's seventh network, something Diller may need more than the rest of us. "Do I wonder why I have this need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DILLER DOING IT HIS WAY | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

...that's a fair description of schmoozing it up with the likes of Bill Gates and John Malone. Diller was now preaching the new religion of interactivity--though, to give credit where credit is due, so was virtually every other sentient being in telecommunications in 1992. Owning a traditional broadcast network, Diller told the New Yorker with a cavalier, would-be mogul's flair, "would be fun. But even as I say it, I bore myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DILLER DOING IT HIS WAY | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

That mystical bond with the people kept social discontent in check even as Aristide displayed no talent for governance. He promised food, jobs, justice; he delivered nothing. Three weeks ago, he ordered an official to broadcast the names of 1,000 citizens who should come to the National Palace to receive a $30 handout, worth a month's wages. Within hours a huge crowd mobbed the gates, demanding envelopes of cash. When the money ran out, hundreds invaded the Palace until police reinforcements forced them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DID THE AMERICAN MISSION MATTER? | 2/19/1996 | See Source »

...right. Less than two hours earlier, the Dublin newsroom of Ireland's main broadcast network had received a call. The person on the line gave a six-letter code word to identify himself as an I.R.A. operative. Then came the news. "The complete cessation of military operations will end at 6 p.m. this evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHATTERING THE PEACE | 2/19/1996 | See Source »

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