Word: channeler
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Historian. You probably think that becoming a historian demands a Ph.D. and long study, but today anyone may be so designated if he/she remembers anything. Recent grads may become historians if they, say, remember the '80s. You can appear on your own cable channel, and rake in big fees on the lecture circuit. But you will have the most fun simply making up history. Who will correct you? Did somebody say "Professor...
Over the centuries, many madmen have foretold the precise time that the world would end, only to be disappointed. It happened again just a couple of months ago, when a guru in Texas told his followers that on the evening of March 31, God would announce his arrival on Channel 18. This prediction was ridiculous on many counts--why would God choose cable, for example? This prophet was correct, however, in that TV will be the medium of the apocalypse; he just had the wrong listing. The end of the world will come...
...April issue of Commentary magazine, Justin C. Danilewitz '99 alleged that he had been denied positions on The Crimson's editorial board because of his Jewish faith. His charges were later aired on local television and radio and in the national media, including the Associated Press, Fox News Channel and The Washington Post...
...explosive growth of online investing has made personal finance the most popular channel on America Online--easily surpassing news, sports and entertainment. AOL, which provides links to nine online brokers, says more than 5 million subscribers pull up 80 million stock quotes a day and generate some 13 million financial graphs a month...
...Every 15-minute block in which they attract more viewers than the other stations is a bigger sell to advertisers, a bigger pitch and a lead-in to their next newscast at 4 o'clock or 5 o'clock. They're trying to grab and hold on to the channel surfer." And, she adds, "if you're a television station and don't have a helicopter ready to go, you're not in the game...