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...furor over an ad on CNN suggests that sex cannot, after all, sell everything. Faced with the star power of morning news anchors Katie Couric on Today and Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America, CNN's promotions department went a different route in touting PAULA ZAHN, the new anchor of its own a.m. show. In a spot that aired on the network several times on Jan. 5 and 6, a male voice described Zahn as "provocative, supersmart and, oh yeah, just a little sexy." The last word seemed to be accompanied by the sound of a zipper. News executives said...
...cover of More, Now, Again features only words, though there is a photo on the back cover of her reclining that she likes. “There’s no way I’m ever doing that again,” she says, exasperated by the furor over her Bitch cover shot. “But can you imagine anyone ever complaining that like, Joni Mitchell was on the cover of her album? It’s the stupidest thing...
...Additionally, they set a double standard for Arab-Americans. There has never been a mass mailing to the Italian immigrants to discuss the Mafia and organized crime; nor have personal invitations been sent to Colombian immigrants inviting them to discuss cocaine trafficking. Such blatant profiling would rightly ignite public furor, and it is wrong of the Justice Department to capitalize on national fear to target any ethnic group...
...during Vietnam, war is also breeding some hot disputes within academia. Robert Jensen, a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin, raised a local furor when he wrote in the Houston Chronicle that the Sept. 11 attacks were "no more despicable than the massive acts of terrorism" committed by the U.S.--for instance, in Vietnam, Central America and Iraq. That led university president Larry Faulkner to write the newspaper a letter defending Jensen's right to his views but calling him "a fountain of undiluted foolishness on issues of public policy." At the University of North Carolina, faculty...
...Levys have understood when to step aside and stay out of the storm's path. Last week a furor erupted when Condit's p.r. woman, Marina Ein, was accused of suggesting to reporters that Talk magazine was writing a story that would show Levy had "a history of one-night stands." For once, the Levy team stayed nearly silent and let the allegation backfire, which it did when Talk denied that it had uncovered anything of the kind. And for a day, the airwaves and tabloids were dominated by what the New York Daily News labeled a "Chandra smear campaign...