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...prince's confession came during a 2 1/2-hour documentary on his life broadcast on Britain's ITV network last week and watched by nearly 13 million people, a stunning two-thirds of the country's viewing audience. Though Charles' comments on his marriage occupied less than 10 minutes of the program, they, along with some controversial political statements, sparked a renewed debate over his suitability to be King. The House of Windsor once again was forced to raise the drawbridge and fill the moat against a barrage of criticism...
...something to break out of the doldrums," says Christopher Dixon, media analyst with PaineWebber. "With this move they enter the modern age -- albeit laughing, kicking, struggling and crying. They are now where they need to be to be able to compete in the rapidly developing broadcast world...
...both a pleasure and a job description, was quickly at ease in the company he hopes will be his big new home. The day the deal was announced, he called Evening News co-anchor Dan Rather for a chat and was escorted around the network's New York City broadcast center on 57th Street by Howard Stringer, CBS's Broadcast Group president. Tisch said Stringer would stay on in the new regime. And Diller, who has often castigated the bigger networks as boring and bloated, promised that there would be no ticker-tape parade of pink slips...
...after moving from broadcast TV to cable, Diller never quite answered one question posed by the ordinary viewers: Can you turn QVC's programming into something approaching mainstream entertainment? After two years -- about the time it took for Diller to start up Fox's first night of network programming -- QVC was still an electronic flea market, selling flashy bracelets one moment and beanbag chairs the next. Clearly, most of Diller's creative energies were directed elsewhere. "When Barry went to QVC," says a business colleague, "he saw this mainly as the platform to do a big, transforming acquisition...
Even Charles' foes acknowledge that he is not a villain, but he seems to have a self-destructive streak. Some of it is just banana-peel comedy. The day of the broadcast he plowed the plane he was piloting off the runway: he misjudged his landing approach. More serious is his capacity for ill-advised self-revelation, which raises the question of whether he is fit to rule. When he claimed he was faithful to Princess Diana until the marriage was "irretrievably broken," he may have opened himself to the charge of lying. The next day Andrew Morton, the author...