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...When the story of Adams's and Breedlove broke, the most broadcast cause of public ire was the fact that Adams had lied about the relationship—not that he’d cultivated a homosexual liaison with a younger person. Yet the calls for Adams to resign and the media coverage of the issue have tinged the affair with a pallor of homophobia and judgment of Adams’s sexual behavior...
...First, to debase Tibetan culture and broadcast authority, the Chinese government has conspicuously placed signs of Chinese culture on top of Tibetan ones. The government has planted a television tower atop the Iron Mountain—a sacred landmass in the center of Lhasa, Tibet’s Holy City. This eyesore casts its shadow on some of the most important relics of the Buddhist world, belittling Tibetan identity both physically and figuratively. Centuries ago, the Iron Mountain served as a principal shrine for medical studies. Now, Tibetan identity comes second to Chinese cable...
...January 12, NPR broadcast an interview given by the neoconservative economist N. Gregory Mankiw, the former chair of President Bush’s Council of Economic Advisors and professor at Harvard University. I agree with Dr. Mankiw’s support for free trade and his expression of disappointment that the Republican-controlled Congress did not reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. However, most of his ideas are precisely what led to our country’s current economic disaster...
...April 6, 1959, broadcast had moved smoothly - too smoothly, it turned out - up to the closing number: a group sing of "There's No Business Like Show Business" by dozens of the movie elite, including James Cagney, Bette Davis, Cary Grant, Rock Hudson, Doris Day, John Wayne and Elizabeth Taylor. As they concluded, someone noticed that the show had run 20 minutes short. (Implausible but true.) Cued from the wings, Lewis shouted to the group, "Another 20 times!" Some of the stars danced in couples; others wandered offstage. As the tone grew tenser, Jer announced "We're showing Three Stooges...
...doctrine stayed in effect, and was enforced until FCC chairman Mark Fowler began rolling it back during Reagan's second term - despite complaints from some in the Administration that it was all that kept broadcast journalists from thoroughly lambasting Reagan's policies on air. In 1987, the FCC panel repealed the Fairness Doctrine altogether with a 4-0 vote...