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...with great gusto. "'Liquidator' sure has a negative connotation, doesn't it?" admits Paul Erickson, CFO of the Great American Group, one of the largest liquidation firms in the country. The wife of Jim Schaye, CEO of Hudson Capital Partners, another major liquidator, didn't want her husband to broadcast his career when they first met. "She thought people would think I'm a vulture," he says with a laugh (she has since changed her tune. Honey, you're not a vulture). At parties, Steve Fried is very careful when describing his career. "I do not tell people...
That concert also showed, though, that you can't just wish acrimony away. There was an immediate controversy when a prayer by gay Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson was left off the HBO broadcast. There's a whole talk-show industry devoted to feeding those "stale political arguments." And we've seen overblown predictions before that events would ennoble American culture--see, again, 9/11...
...doing this? Oh, about a zillion reasons. Digital TV makes possible better sound and a sharper picture as well as something called multicasting, which means that--because digital signals are more compact than analog ones--single stations will be able to broadcast multiple channels of programming all at once. The switchover will also free up a lot of space on the overcrowded airwaves. Some of it will be used for an improved post--Sept. 11, post-Katrina emergency-broadcast system (yes, even better than those color bars and that weirdly aggravating tone). The rest of it went to the highest...
That may be the case. On Jan. 16, an Israeli TV news show telephoned a Gaza doctor, Izzeldin Abuelaish, known for his dedication to peace, for a live broadcast. The call came just after a tank had shelled the living room of his home in a refugee camp, killing three of his daughters and a niece. Through the TV channel's influence, the Israeli military helped evacuate the doctor's other wounded relatives. But his plaintive question - "Why, why did they do this?" - touched the hearts of many Israelis...