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...pride of the Chinese people all over the world" and "the glory of Chinese cinematic talent." But it ignored the fact that Lee was born and raised in Taiwan, which China considers a breakaway province. Lee's shout-out to his fellow Taiwanese was excised from the mainland broadcast of the Oscars?as was a speech on gay love, which is widely stigmatized in China. While Beijing hasn't allowed the film to be distributed, curious Chinese are in luck: thanks to rampant piracy on the mainland, illicit DVDs are widely available...
...John Kerry spent so much of his advertising budget on broadcast-television warhorses like Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune that he at least deserved a wardrobe courtesy of Botany 500. George W. Bush threw millions at TV too (he favored Cops and JAG), but his ads also appeared on cable, talk radio, blogs, the Internet and, in several cases, closed-circuit televisions above health-club treadmills. "We took one message and designed lots of different avenues to communicate it," says Matthew Dowd, Bush's chief strategist in '04. "They took a lot of different messages and drove them all into...
Legendary broadcast journalist Dan Rather told a packed John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum last night that Comedy Central host Jon Stewart offers “another dimension to the American experience.” “I like him. I like the program,” Rather told a smiling Alex S. Jones, his interlocutor for the evening. After this cheerful beginning, Rather went on to address some of the tougher problems facing the media today, focusing on the market pressures which affect the quality of broadcast news. “Ratings no longer are king. Demographics...
...cricket's growth on the subcontinent. Nimbus was one of 15 rival bidders, according to Sharad Pawar, president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (bcci). Having won the deal, Nimbus, which has no TV channel of its own, is now in talks to resell rights to broadcast India's matches in individual countries. Interested media giants and cable-TV companies include ESPN, Sony Entertainment and the BBC. Money isn't flowing into the sport through broadcasting rights alone. In the last two months, the BCCI signed sponsorship agreements and other deals that raised the organization's revenue...
...action:PENN (18-7, 10-1 IVY) AT YALE (15-12, 7-5)It’s hard to believe that this contest won’t be televised, noting its implications for the Ivy title race, but since the YES Network and CN8 have combined to broadcast both of Saturday night’s key matchups, I won’t complain about this omission too much.Though the final score might not reflect it, Yale jumped out to a 16-1 lead over Penn in the two teams’ first matchup. Had the Quakers not been playing...