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...outside Washington altogether. It is in the globe-spanning fields of entertainment and communications, where mere governments are just so many obstacles to the corporate game plan, that you see power with all its cellular phones blazing. When Rupert Murdoch wants something--the Times of London, a fourth network, broadcast rights to N.F.L. games, his own 24-hour cable-news operation--he gets it with a panache that is as entertaining, and as chilling, as anything in Citizen Kane. If Machiavelli were alive today, he would be reading Murdoch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOU'VE READ ABOUT WHO'S INFLUENTIAL, BUT WHO HAS THE POWER? | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

Advertisers have for years been looking for more creative ways of disguising their pitches. Infomercials that air on many cable and broadcast channels are designed to look like talk shows and other entertainment programs; those minute-long "Movie News" segments, frequently run during local newscasts, may look like clips from Entertainment Tonight, but they are actually commercials for Disney films. In 1994 NBC aired a prime-time special on the newly opened Treasure Island resort and casino in Las Vegas that was produced by Stephen Wynn, who owns the place. ABC, CBS and NBC have all run prime-time specials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: A SHOW FROM OUR SPONSOR | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

...telecommunications overhaul bill, the act would make displaying "indecent" and "patently offensive" words or images on the Internet punishable by a $250,000 fine and two years in jail. For the Philadelphia judges, the key stumbling block was the question of whether the Internet could be regulated like a broadcast medium regarding indecency. Free speech, even indecent speech, is guaranteed by the First Amendment. But courts have ruled that in broadcast media like radio and TV, some forms of expression may be considered unsuitable for part or all of the broadcast day. "The Internet deserves at least as much protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Decency Act Blocked | 6/14/1996 | See Source »

...telecommunications overhaul bill, the act would make displaying "indecent" and "patently offensive" words or images on the Internet punishable by a $250,000 fine and two years in jail. For the Philadelphia judges, the key stumbling block was the question of whether the Internet could be regulated like a broadcast medium regarding indecency. Free speech, even indecent speech, is guaranteed by the First Amendment. But courts have ruled that in broadcast media like radio and TV, some forms of expression may be considered unsuitable for part or all of the broadcast day. "The Internet deserves at least as much protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Decency Act Blocked | 6/13/1996 | See Source »

...BOOKS . . . NIGHTLINE: HISTORY IN THE MAKING AND THE MAKING OF TELEVISION: Begun as a late-night news show that was only supposed to last for the duration of the Iran hostage crisis, Nightline has become, 16 years later, the most important news broadcast on American television. Ted Koppel, the show's masterly anchorman, is certainly entitled to toot his own horn, and 'Nightline: History in the Making and the Making of Television,' which he has co-authored with former Nightline producer Kyle Gibson (Times Books; 477 pages; $25), has its self-indulgent excesses. It is essentially a scrapbook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Entertainment Guide | 6/7/1996 | See Source »

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