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...party" wrestling events during scheduled matches. So why did the WWF agree to promote the film in the first place? And why did McMahon not only give full access to the filmmaker but also appear in the film? Whatever his motives, McMahon's got muscle. With rumors flying that CBS is trying to woo the WWF, USA Network and UPN aren't likely to risk provoking McMahon...
...Sparks Fly," while the Washington Post summed up: "Democrats Tone It Down." Before the debate, Bradley told reporters he would spend the remaining days before Tuesday, when 16 states vote in Democratic primaries, touting his own "idealism," beginning with a prime-time five-minute ad Thursday night on CBS...
...demographic-happy television, of course, age spots and weather lines do not an automatic green light make, living legend or not. Moore took the idea to CBS, but the seven-year home of MTM passed. ABC bit instead, though it ultimately agreed only to a movie, not the series Moore and Harper hoped for. "Even four or six episodes, even short orders are a lot more money and a bigger gamble," Harper concedes. The network has, however, retained series rights. "We just hope it's a terrifically successful movie for the network, and then we can evaluate where...
There's a difference, though, between avoiding unnecessary mention of competitors and straight-out eliminating their presence. CBS and NBC may be viewed as natural competitors, but in this era of media conglomerates, just about every advertisement indicates a potential friend or foe. CNN's parent company, Time Warner, after the AOL merger now controls an immense number of brands, each of which has several competitors whose logos the network could choose to suppress. Will Microsoft now vanish from CNN, and Pixar from Disney/ABC...
...Neither CBS erasing its competitors nor Harvard trying to disguise Serbia is as pernicious as, say, Stalin airbrushing Trotsky out of group photos. But all attempts to change images prey on the tendency of humans to trust the camera, to assume that whatever they see is real. The loss of that trust is perhaps one of the more worrisome consequences of a few minutes' play in Photoshop...