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...Elian Gonzalez gave good value in the category of cute kids with international poignancy. Clinton/Lewinsky, with Ken Starr ably pouring on the prurience and Republicans contributing the incompetent moralism, competed with O.J. for title of overall best - in the way that Hamlet and Lear may vie in people's minds for greatest Shakespeare play...
...enjoys these entertainments more than the business offices of the big media. What the stories have in common, from a journalistic point of view, is that they are (almost all of them) incredibly cheap to cover. For Elian Gonzalez, for example, all that a media giant needed for seven days a week, twenty four hours a day on air was a couple of sound people and a van and a camera and a producer and an on-camera correspondent to stand outside the Miami relatives' house and yak solemnly about how Elian came out this morning to play...
First they lost Elian. Now they've lost Ricky Martin and Christina Aguilera, too. Monday's decision to move the annual Latin music Grammy awards ceremony from Miami to avoid Cuban-American protests deals a blow to efforts by the organized exile community to soften its image following last year's Elian Gonzalez debacle. And the pain will be deepened by the fact that controversy over how to respond to the event had caused the most dramatic split in decades in the preeminent exile group, the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF...
...Santos and other moderate CANF leaders saw the Grammys as an opportunity for the exile community to redeem its image in light of the charges of intolerance that followed last year's Elian Gonzalez saga. The protests against the return of the six-year-old to his father in Cuba prompted charges of intolerance within Miami, and did little to endear the exile community to the wider American mainstream. And with pressure mounting in Washington for a reexamination of the four-decade-old embargo against Cuba that has failed to make any discernible dent in Fidel Castro's power...
...stories have shared certain characteristics. To start with the crass and crucial point, they have almost all been cheap to cover. A TV news operation is not going to burn a lot of budget posting a correspondent and camera crew outside the Miami relatives' house, waiting to catch little Elian on the jungle gym. Minimal expenses are an important point at a time when the business of journalism has pretty much been absorbed (by acquisitions and mergers) into vast corporate organisms that tend to see journalism in terms of entertainment product and bottom line...