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...staple Helen Thomas, the senior White House correspondent, nearly 80 years old herself, gets up to be at the White House at 5:30 in the morning, to write stories no one will read for a wire service that will reach almost no American newspaper. (One UPI exec describes the company's subscription roster as "more than none.") Her readership, if one still remains for UPI, comes from Japan or Internet surfers. Fifteen years ago, more than a thousand U.S. papers subscribed to UPI, only a few hundred fewer than AP. How the mighty have fallen: Thomas says...
...Roger Ebert & the Movies, with new theme music and rotating guest critics. Yet to be determined: whether Ebert will let colleagues give the digital seal of approval. "In respect to Gene, we're not allowing other people to use the thumbs right now," says MARY KELLOGG, the Disney exec overseeing the show. "Things may change this fall, but for the time being those sitting across the aisle should not have access to the thumbs." Meanwhile, competing programmers smell an opportunity. Fox cable outlet FX, Paramount Television and the fledgling Oxygen channel are all said to be developing their own movie...
...Roger Ebert & the Movies," with new theme music and rotating guest critics. Yet to be determined: whether Ebert will let colleagues give the digital seal of approval. "In respect to Gene, we're not allowing other people to use the thumbs right now," says Mary Kellogg, the Disney exec overseeing the show. "Things may change this fall, but for the time being those sitting across the aisle should not have access to the thumbs." Meanwhile, competing programmers smell an opportunity. Fox cable outlet FX, Paramount Television and the fledgling Oxygen channel are all said to be developing their own movie...
...over the venality and dim-wittedness of the TV business, despite the increasingly lame fall schedules it turns out every year. Never mind, because this satirical hour-long series about the shenanigans at a major network, LGT, is worth watching. There's even a beautiful, frighteningly ambitious development exec who would have got Faye Dunaway fired...
Microsoft execs will no doubt see a darker purpose in such a probe, just as they cried conspiracy when AOL bought Netscape while both were witnesses for the prosecution. Microsoft is convinced that AOL is hiding under the government's antitrust skirts, and there's little Case can do that won't be viewed in Redmond through that prism. When AOL bought Netscape, why didn't it change its default browser from Microsoft's to Netscape's? So as not to weaken the antitrust case, says Microsoft. "When the trial is over," predicts an exec, "they're going to switch...