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...keeping the viewer entertained with short clips rather than informing them with long ones. The 30-second television commercial is all but extinct; we simply cannot focus for that long anymore. How many of us have spent hours flipping through the television, unable to settle on just one channel? Reared on a diet of constant entertainment, it is no wonder that some of us fail to find instant gratification in life and turn even more toward the virtual world...
...December of 1991. That's when a PIV enlistee named Christian Wurtemburg, a Swiss national, turned up dead - tortured and garroted. British journalist Paul Jenks began investigating Wurtemburg's death and was shot dead as well. (British journalist John Sweeney made a movie about the deaths in 1994 for Channel 4 called Dying for the Truth...
...speak in France's name, because that role isn't hers," Socialist legislator Jean-Marie Le Guen said on Monday on French news channel LCI, noting that even if Royal's criticism of Sarkozy's Dakar comments was justified, her penchant for apologies isn't. "A rhetoric based on excusing oneself is out of line, it seems to me, in the same way that the rhetorical foundation of Sarkozy's [insults...
...Last week's top banana, Hannah Montana: The Movie, dropped 60%, to $12.7 million, giving the Disney Channel's tween-dream factory a still-healthy one-four punch for the weekend. Two of the year's solid hits, Fast & Furious and Monsters vs Aliens, took the third and fifth slots. Between them, they have now racked up about $300 million at the domestic wickets, and another $200 million or so abroad...
...what happens to complex social emotions in a modern society, where we exist amidst the flicker of Twitter tweets, Facebook updates, endless channel surfing and quick-cut news segments? A ticker headline or a personal story told through a Web feed may just evaporate too quickly to engender true compassion or admiration - and that could potentially affect the moral development of younger generations...