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...Though other large operators, like Charter Communications and Cablevision, don't have a stake, they agreed to carry the channel after the big boys signed on. Thanks to baseball's rather inexpensive asking price, companies have been more willing to play ball with MLB. Baine says that while the NFL demanded an 85 cents-per-subscriber fee from operators to carry its network, baseball asked for a more reasonable 25 cents. The network will appear on the basic digital tier of every major provider except for the Dish Network. "No one is going to get 50 million homes...
...debate that has recently bubbled through the commentary pages of Chinese newspapers over the nature of "universal values." Opinion writers have argued whether pluralism is a western creation with limited application to China, or a political ideal for all nations. Columnist Sima Nan wrote on his blog that the charter was a dangerous attempt to promote a Chinese "color revolution," referring to pro-democracy movements in Ukraine and Georgia...
...Tong, a former assistant to purged Communist Party Secretary Zhao Ziyang and one of the charter's signers, acknowledged that it backed western values, but said that China had relied on similar ideas for reform in the past. "If studying the West is illegal, then we should arrest the people talking about the market economy, because that comes from the West," he says. "We should arrest the Communist Party, because political parties come from the West...
...retired and lives under close state scrutiny, says the charter had been compiled over several months with the input of several people who offered suggestions and revisions. It was still being revised when the arrest of Liu prompted its early release. Bao accused the authorities of arresting Liu to intimidate others who might encourage political reform. "If signing the charter is illegal, then all us 300 plus have broken the law," he says. "It's nonsense...
...timing of the charter's release is sensitive not just because of the significant anniversaries this year, but because the global economic slowdown has increased the potential for political unrest in China. Thousands of factories in the south have closed, and demonstrations by workers over unpaid wages have become a frequent scene in the regions of the country that have been driving China's double-digit growth. China's exports dropped last month for the first time in seven years, and as many as 9 million migrant workers are estimated to be returning home due to the slowdown. The World...