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...soap operas, soccer and especially African versions of reality-television shows such as Big Brother and Idols. "For the first time they're getting just African images, African people, African heroes, African music," says Carl Fischer, head of local production at M-Net. "It makes business sense: African content attracts subscribers." Big Brother Africa is actually the third iteration of the program; the first two featured South African contestants only and the winners were both white men. But the shows were so popular in the rest of Africa - fan clubs sprang up from Nairobi to Lagos - that the third series...
Fithian says he regrets that the administration did not make the content of the change and the process leading up to it more transparent to students...
...words the violent frustration one feels when a computer crashes and deletes a nearly-finished article an hour before deadline. I can’t express in newsprint how horrible it is to be awake at four in the morning editing what will be that morning’s content, all the while worrying about the history paper that awaits unfinished on the laptop back home. Not to mention all those weekends that were spent travelling to cover sporting events that could have been better spent drinking, hanging out with friends and watching sporting events—on TV, that...
...these respects, I’m quite content to be moving on to hopefully greener pastures. But for all the negative aspects of being a Crimson sportswriter (the deadlines, the hours, athlete egos, co-worker egos, etc.), I can’t help but feel deeply saddened by the prospect of leaving it all behind. As profoundly corny as it may sound, there is just something inexplicably magical about what we do at 14 Plympton, and in the Sports Cube in particular. Please bear with me, for the last time in my brief journalistic “career...
...While I understand “jihad” may have had painful connotations in the aftermath of Sept. 11, the rush to condemn Yasin and sully the honor of being selected to address the Commencement ceremony—without any idea of the (actually benign) content of the speech—was a particularly damning moment for student civility. And evidently feeling that such character assassination should not be confined to campus, some of the critics went on national television to further bash Yasin...