Word: contently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wall Street whistled while it worked, gobbling up shares of both companies, and by the end of the week, their combined value topped $48 billion. Grumpy analysts who had hounded Eisner for his caution and his lack of global vision were now swooning about so neat a fit between "content" and "distribution." From Eisner's enemies came praise through clenched teeth; it would be hard to avoid doing business with the man now that he presided over so vast an empire. "If you had asked me Sunday night as I went to bed, 'Is Eisner paying $19 billion...
...welcome than a lie. (Enslave them, and then lecture them about self-respect--cutely done, Mr. Charles.) Still, my Inner Ranter is awake and would push my friend even further. He wants to say, "Forget about racism, about racists. They are always there, and irrelevant. What matters is the content of the black mind, not the white. Building the black mind, its morale." I do not say it. I have no right. My friend ascribes the ills of the universe to racism...
...matter what the future contours of the media industry, those who own and produce content will continue to have clout--the animators, the screenwriters, the TV whiz kids. To that end, Jeffrey Montgomery, CEO of Harvey Entertainment, which holds the trademarks for Casper and Richie Rich, lost no time last week in meeting with investment advisers about putting his company on the block. Says he: "The good news is my company's a whole lot more valuable because the major players need content even more." Last week, too, there were rumors that Turner may be trying to regain greater control...
...House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum. According to Margolis, the White House and the Department of Justice agreed on the day after Vincent Foster's death on a plan for searching his office. Under the plan, Department of Justice lawyers with security clearances would briefly scan each document for highly-sensitive content, then turn over every other document to the Park Police. But when Margolis arrived for the search the next day, Nussbaum, he says, told him that the plan had changed. No documents would be given to the Park Police, nor would the Justice Department lawyers be allowed to read them...
...broad and loyal an audience base as PBS repeatedly garners can be called elitist. A national poll conducted for PBS by Opinion Research Corp. indicates that fully 84% of Americans want to see PBS funding maintained or increased and that 82% of them--79% Republican--feel PBS programming content is "neither too conservative nor too liberal...