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...bickering at Time Warner is already turning the company into "a case of trophies without a team on the field." The executive most dislocated by the emerging new power structure is Michael Fuchs, the head of HBO and Warner Music, who is credited with helping defuse the furor over gangsta-rap lyrics that besieged the company earlier this year. Last week Levin indicated that Turner, who will become Time Warner's vice chairman, will also assume responsibility for overseeing...
...American culture," says music critic Christopher John Farley. "It is all around us: in the streets, on television, in movies. There is more sex in the Packwood diaries than in any record Snoop has released." Farley notes that the Time Warner decision may prove to be an opportunity for gangsta rappers to move beyond "self-defeating nonsense obscenity, and toward music that is more political, that may make a contribution. Perhaps Snoop and Tha Dogg Pound should listen to some Public Enemy albums," Farley says...
...Inc.that the media giant will sell off its 50 percent share of Interscope Records, the controversial music label that produces many top rap acts, including Snoop Doggy Dogg and Tupac Shakur. "Time Warner may be looking for a way to distance itself from the more strident, objectionable type of gangsta rap," saysTIME's Richard Zoglin. "I think it reflects the company's general discomfort with this type of music." Michael Fuchs, chairman of Warner Music Group, has been meeting with Interscope executives in recent weeks. The company has not commented on the rumors...
After insinuating that the honorable Senator is a racist, Rich hauls in the charge of anti-Semitism. Rich asks himself why Dole decided to focus on the gangsta rap of Time Warner, and generously volunteers an answer: "Does the fact that its chief executive is named Levin play particularly well in some farright G.O.P. quarters?" Now, I enjoy a good ad hominem attack as much as the next guy, but these are the cheapest of cheap shots...
...fund raiser. The presidential candidate criticized entertainment moguls for producing what he called "nightmares of depravity"-films, television and music filled with sex and brutality that "push the limits of decency." Dole took particular aim at Time Warner (TIME's parent company) for its dissemination of violence-laced gangsta-rap music...