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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then more. These journalists do not lie; they simply overflow the media with truth about the chosen journalistic cash crop. They inform some more, recast the characters, take new polls and provide new interpretations to ponder. After a while, the news becomes newsworthy, and the media has raised enough content to match the form it has provided. Then it starts to report on its own successful raising of such a spectacle: Has the Media Gone Too Far? they ask themselves...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: All the News That's Fit to Sell | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

...broad-based and anti-populist construction. The mere fact that this brutal crime is top news means that it is a rarity. Further, society takes "hate crimes," or, more appropriately, "crimes," quite seriously. Many states execute convicted killers and imprison batterers for years. That's serious enough. Legislating the content of criminal motive confuses elite sentiment with proper jurisprudence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Hate Crime' Too Broad | 10/14/1998 | See Source »

...studies are quite complimentary," Wagner says. "What we've jointly demonstrated is that both the frontal and medial temporal regions determine memory. But the specific structures employed depend upon the content and the approach to learning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: fMRI Scans Shed Light on Mechanisms of Memory | 10/13/1998 | See Source »

...years, of course, everyone from insurance adjusters to credit-card companies has made money swapping consumer profiles like baseball cards. But the Web is bringing this great American pastime to new levels of invasive splendor. Ironically, one of the most attractive features of the Net--its ability to customize content instantly--morphs smoothly into one of its most sinister: the ability to monitor who you are and what you're doing online, even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watch Your Tracks | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

...peaceful acceptance of ambiguity, Fuck ends the album with an admission that they don't really know who they are. They are content, ultimately, to be stuck between styles with a name that has seemingly nothing to do with who they are. Listening to Fuck, one never feels the need for reconciliation. The lack of sense makes sense--disorder, after all, is sometimes a necessary relief. And what really is in a name? In the end, would Fuck by any other (rational) name really sound as sweet...

Author: By Erin E. Billings, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dirty Minds, Delicate Music | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

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