Word: criers
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...cleared. Fox, the youngest and least widely carried of the three (38.8 million homes, vs. 47.8 million for MSNBC and 75.9 million for CNN), has moved past MSNBC and into second place in the important prime-time hours, with a lineup of talk shows featuring Bill O'Reilly, Catherine Crier and conservative-liberal duo Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes. MSNBC still draws more viewers around the clock. And CNN leads both by a wide margin. But last Monday, for the first time ever, Fox beat MSNBC in 24-hour ratings--a milestone for Rupert Murdoch's upstart...
...Stevens in his 15-page opinion, the CDA threatened "to torch a large segment of the Internet community." Clearly the Justices, like many newbies before them, were swept up in the global reach and boundless potential of the medium. "Any person with a phone line can become a town crier with a voice that resonates farther than it could from any soapbox," Stevens observed...
...local newspaper, once an indispensable part of daily life, is becoming just one more piece of information clutter. Readership is declining even as new technologies transform or undermine the role newspapers have traditionally played: that of town crier, bulletin board, community troublemaker and trusted interpreter of the outside world. For years newspaper circulation has in general been on an inexorable slide. Between 1992 and 1995 it fell about 3% nationwide, with some major papers taking even bigger hits. The Los Angeles Times, for example, lost 3.5% of its circulation last year, though it is up slightly this year. The percentage...
...contains lots of voter information and information about national campaigns, but clearly with a very local focus," Town Crier Editor John Altobello said of the new discussion site on the World Wide Web, a navigation system for browsing the Internet...
...Town Crier is a listing of announcements and cultural events in the city. The Web site for the Cambridge Town Crier and Cambridge Election Dimensions, 1995, is http://www.civic.net:2401/ctc.html.