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...could get ugly. In fact, it already has. Last fall during a congressional fight over the right to sue HMOs, the managed-care industry broadcast TV commercials showing a shark feeding as an announcer said archly, "America's richest trial lawyers are circling--and your health plan is the bait." The trial lawyers, for their part, recently targeted Senator Conrad Burns, a Montana Republican, for sponsoring a bill that would make it harder to sue asbestos manufacturers. Their ad featured a Montana woman walking in a graveyard and accusing Burns of "standing up for the people that made me sick...
...congressional GOP is standing fast behind the broadcast companies (and their lobbyists), defending their position with the claim that the smaller stations' signals could interfere with existing channels. The nascent broadcasters and the FCC, which proposed the move in part to open the airwaves to more voices, hit back that the radio companies' concerns have more to do with worries about audience (and advertising) share than any technical issues. And while some conservative Republicans have expressed remorse that their position will undercut grassroots religious programming, the message in their perfunctory hand-wringing is abundantly clear: In this case, at least...
...when he arrived from Washington, a capitalist contrast to the Young Communist Pioneer scarves that dozens of his shouting, flag-waving Cuban classmates donned to greet him. In a calculated show of political restraint, Castro didn't come to the airport to hail the pint-size icon. Instead, he broadcast a Cuban animated cartoon character to welcome Elian on national television--Elpidio Valdes, the patriotic, machete-swinging colonel who tells children to eat their vegetables, brush their teeth, and recently exhorted them to march against Elian's imperialist "Miami kidnappers." It was a cuddlier reminder of the dour communique Havana...
...they said. 'Justice has been done. A child needs to be with his parents, and his grandparents are here. He had no business being in a country without his real family.' Juan Miguel's comments at the airport about his hopes for friendship between Cuba and the U.S. were broadcast here, and they were well-received because that's a common sentiment. People here love Americans. If you go to the 'hot corner' to talk about baseball, they'll talk about the latest plays of American teams. When the World Series is on, there's pandemonium in Havana...
...quarter of a million webcam sites now up and running show everyone and everything from naked mole rats to New York City taxi drivers, all live and unedited. In a recent survey, 39% of college students said they already use or watch webcams. During the broadcast of the original Big Brother in Germany, the show's website--on which you could see all the 24-hour feeds of the participants in the house instead of just the edited TV installments--was clicked on as often as megasites Yahoo...