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Even more disturbing are reports that the Serbs may be mining the Albanian border and aerial photographs which show freshly turned earth resembling the mass graves dug during the Bosnian war. According to CBS, NATO reports spotting 96 freshly dug graves from the air over Kosovo last Saturday night and Sunday...
NAME'S THE SAME The Melissa computer virus made headlines last week, crippling e-mail systems around the nation. At the same time, other famous Melissas were engaged in more constructive endeavors. Actress Melissa Gilbert was shooting a CBS movie called Soul Collector, while rocker Melissa Etheridge performed at an event to raise awareness about the plight of women in Afghanistan. E! hostess Melissa Rivers, fresh from her marathon coverage of the Oscars, was at a clinic on horse jumping with her husband. No word on Melissa Manchester...
...suicides. This time was different, Cooper said: Kevorkian had done the deed himself, and the crime was murder. Last September, Youk, who was suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease, received the deadly mixture of drugs from Kevorkian as the procedure was recorded on videotape. It was later broadcast on CBS's 60 Minutes. "It's not necessarily murder," Kevorkian told correspondent Mike Wallace. "But it doesn't bother me what you call it. I know what...
...media mergers and acquisitions were announced on Tuesday, each reflecting a different aspect of the rapidly evolving industry. CBS said it was buying King World Productions for $2.5 billion in stock, and Yahoo! annnounced its purchase of Broadcast.com. for $5.7 billion in stock. CBS's acquisition of one of TV?s biggest syndicators (whose hits include ?Jeopardy!? and ?The Oprah Winfrey Show?) underscored the pressure on the so-called old media to pull itself together. The Yahoo! purchase of the Internet?s leading supplier of radio and video programs (whose hits included the web broadcast of John Glenn?s shuttle...
...intense competition to keep an audience in the age of cable and cyberspace has put severe pressure on traditional broadcasters. ?CBS in particular has been hurting for some time,? says TIME senior economic reporter Bernard Baumohl. ?The King World purchase should infuse the company with a major new source of revenue.? CBS will now be in a much stronger position to sell television programming to others and, over time, to obtain it for its own stations...