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Since no outsider can ever really know what goes on in China, I had to content myself for almost two months with assembling fragments of reality, sifting gossip from apparent fact in trying to find out. Of the governing regime in China today, it may be said...
LAST SUMMER, the gossip column in The Chicago Tribune reported that a news director at the city's ABC owned and operated station hall instructed his staff to pay close attention to USA Today for possible stories. The implication was clear: WLS-TV was looking for a new influx of light, superficial stories to bolster its sagging ratings. Several years ago, the station had pioneered the so-called "happy talk" style of local news featuring the likes of the ever-smiling and recently fired Good Morning, America weatherman John Coleman. But the item so angered the news director that...
Actually, the Tribune's gossip columnists need not have looked farther than the page on which their column appears to see if USA Today had affected Chicago journalism. And whether or not it has might concern Boston readers because the Gannett chain began circulation of the paper in the New England area last week...
Just after USA Today's arrival in Chicago, the Tribune underwent a few cosmetic changes. On the back page of its first section, inches away from the gossip column, one finds the Tribune's new color-coded weather map, not unlike USA Today's weather page. The latter includes not only three-day forecasts for each state but also the local phone numbers for the national weather service in sixteen American cities. Moreover, the Tribune's front page now includes a boxed "here's-what's-inside"-like column, with a friendly "Good Morning" at its top. Each...
...stock quotes and airline schedules or an occasional trespass on the turf of the military-industrial complex. Increasingly, as more and more home terminals are hooked into the telephone system, the lines that connect computers are being used for personal networking, carrying the raw materials of human intercourse: gossip, elephant jokes, pesto recipes and even the murmurings of long-distance seductions...