Word: contently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stymied when he tried to gain full control of his media ventures from partners, including Time Warner (parent company of TIME's publisher), and he wound up selling out to the company instead, a deal that netted him more than $20 million. He'll spend much of that on Content, which he projects will cost $27 million before breaking even. (One of the three other investors is media mogul Barry Diller...
...media critic (and author of Spin Cycle) Howard Kurtz will be a contributor, as will former FCC chairman Reed Hundt and humorist Calvin Trillin. Brill has even hired an in-house ombudsman: former New York Times editor Bill Kovach, head of the Nieman journalism fellowships at Harvard, will critique Content's own articles...
Brill has a good chance of ruffling some serious feathers among the media crowd. But he insists he won't be an avenging angel: "If your tone is bitter and scolding, the outsider looking in, that carries its own bias. You have no credibility." So Content will give out pats on the back as well as skewerings. "Not enough of the good stuff is appreciated because it's so swamped by the bad stuff," he says. "We're going to spend a lot of time finding the good stuff...
Even more impressive was the way Couric chose her words. Too tasteful to dwell on her sorrow and not content merely to acknowledge those who had expressed concern for her and her small children, she expressed concern for others who might be in the same hopeless boat that she and her husband had known. Nor did she offer any easy answers or palliatives, but straightforwardly gave her "sympathies," which in her case were literal; she did feel what those others felt. By doing so, Couric made something valuable of a private life exposed. She showed what Tripp, Flowers...
Furth declares that "under no circumstances did I ever violate the attorney-client privilege." He insists that "both parents and Mitchell were aware of the content [of the interview] and authorized it." And he is worried about his former boy client. He says he recently received a letter from an Arkansas militia seeking vengeance. Parts of the note, he says, read ominously: "Mitchell must die. It might be tomorrow or next week or at the hearing...Or it might be after they are in detention. But we can get to Mitchell, and we will. Our only hope and prayer...