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...strengths and weaknesses. Certainly it often seemed like things fell a little too perfectly in place for the producers the first time around - the fact, for instance, that two competing tribes lost their members at more or less the same rate. On the other hand, Stillman's postulate that CBS wanted to keep crusty septuagenarian Rudy Boesch to hang on to older viewers - the most actively despised demographic in television - is weird, to say the least. (CBS bought "Survivor" largely to win a younger audience.) Being a rank legal amateur, I'll leave it to trained professionals - or another...
...Lance suggested in "The Stingray" that journalists weren't interested in any claims of dirty work by CBS because the "Survivor" gravy train benefited them all. Even if this week's feeding frenzy around the lawsuit hadn't disproved that, the claim is a bit of a reach. Our bosses may well be happy with the Pavlovian circulation, ratings and web-traffic numbers that "Survivor" stories (like this one) bring us. But trust me: Even for a TV writer who loves the show, churning out yet another "Survivor" preview or wrap-up - all to the delight of CBS's accountants...
Future speakers include CBS executive David Gelber and journalist Charlene Hunter-Gault...
...lost last weekend, they looked cool doing it, thanks to a technology called Eye Vision that made its debut at the Super Bowl. Thirty cameras set up in the stands tracked the action, recorded it digitally, then combined it on the fly to form a single tableau. Result: CBS could freeze the action mid-play and then rotate it, Matrix-style, in three dimensions. Eighteen months in the making, Eye Vision may be headed for the Final Four. If only quarterbacks could dodge linebackers like Keanu...
...issues facing the media, such as the effects of media mergers on the industry and whether there are diminished rules for reporting sources of late. Guest speakers at his lectures will include Ted Koppel of ABC News, Gerald Levin, CEO of AOL Time Warner and Andrew Hayward, President of CBS News...