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...accountant with tax evasion. Alexei Venediktov, the head of the popular radio station Ekho Moskvy, expects that "we'll be next in line," and sources tell Time that the Kremlin will soon kill off two liberal weeklies. The heat has also been turned up at TV-6, the channel controlled by exiled tycoon Boris Berezovsky and now run by a group of former NTV stars. The government is said to be pressuring Lukoil, the energy giant that owns a 15% stake in TV-6, to buy out Berezovsky for $120 million...
...Perhaps the biggest problem for independent journalists is the Kremlin's ownership of the airwaves. A source told Time that the regime has ordered Gazprom to cut TV-6 off the satellite that sends the channel's feed to a dozen provinces outside Moscow; the move would strip TV-6 of millions of viewers. Both TNT and TV-6 also rely on local television companies to carry their programming. The Kremlin allegedly has ordered local firms not to cooperate with either channel. Says Oleg Panfilov, a director of the Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations: "Once all the media...
MTV’s marketing department has seen better days. Its recent campaign, in which the music channel likens itself to a sexually transmitted disease (“I feel itchy. Do I have MTV?”), is weird, not funny. Its shameless self-promotion in the recent Josie and the Pussycats was seen, based on the film’s box office, by somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 people. And the press release for “Undergrads,” MTV’s most recent cartoon program, highlights the show’s major flaw...
...unlike me, is an official runner and fast—not to do the same thing. (The irony, of course, is that Robbie would end up collapsing just before the finish line of dehydration and a 104-degree fever, crawl to the finish line, and be featured on the Channel 5 news that night. He still finished in 3 hours flat...
...Greeneville's crew knew he would be standing there as they took the sub out of dry dock and to sea for the first time since the tragedy. As they approached in the narrow channel, they sounded the whistle, in tribute to their former skipper. On the bridge the replacement captain, Tony Cortese, waved to his predecessor, barely 200 yds. away. Waddle was standing on his own, his right arm raised in stiff salute. It was a sailor's leave-taking, barely noticed by anyone else on the shore. When the ship had passed, Waddle slumped, his head bowed...