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Perhaps most impressive is its coverage of world affairs. At a time when the broadcast networks are cutting back on their overseas coverage, Channel One has sent its squad of nine correspondents, ranging in age from 18 to 28, to Haiti, Rwanda, Bosnia and other global hot spots. Their stories frequently run three or four minutes--enormous by network-news standards--and have an immediacy that the young audience can relate to. Reporting from Rwanda, correspondent Anderson Cooper took viewers along on a trip through the country in which his car got stuck...
...word is indecency. Free speech, even indecent speech, is guaranteed by the First Amendment. The right of Americans to say and write what they please, in whatever way they please, has been affirmed by a long series of judicial decisions. The courts have also ruled, however, that in broadcast media like radio and TV, some forms of expression (George Carlin's famous seven dirty words, for example) may be unsuitable for part or all of the broadcast...
...courts have not yet ruled on whether the Internet is a print medium like a newspaper, protected from government censorship, or a broadcast medium like TV, whose content is closely regulated by the Federal Communications Commission. Thoughtful members of Congress, led by Washington Republican Rick White, had sought to clarify the matter. A compromise proposed by White would have ruled out fcc oversight of the Internet; it also would have replaced the problematic word indecency with the phrase harmful to minors, a more narrowly defined standard that keeps magazines like Penthouse shrink-wrapped in convenience stores...
...announced has obtained the exclusive broadcast and cable TV rights to the 2004, 2006 and 2008 Olympic Games for $2.3 billion. "What this purchase does is keep NBC the official Olympic franchise," says New York bureau chief John Moody. "For a cash-rich corporation like General Electric, which owns NBC, it is a power play that signals it intends to keep itself the leader in broadcast sports. They are taking a chance, however, because NBC is acquiring the rights before anyone even knows which cities will hold the games. If the games are held at a location with...
...movies; and the endlessly rerun cult favorite from Britain, Absolutely Fabulous. Riding such successes, Comedy Central has tripled its subscriber count, to 36 million households, and today it reaches a higher proportion of affluent, educated, 18-to-49-year-old viewers than any other network on broadcast or cable...