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...symbiotic solution: send reality TV to war. Last week ABC announced Profiles from the Front Line, from producer Jerry Bruckheimer (Pearl Harbor, Black Hawk Down) and reality-TV wiz Bertram van Munster (Cops, The Amazing Race). The reality series, to air as soon as this summer, intends to tell the personal stories of soldiers in Afghanistan, the Philippines and beyond. On VH1's tentatively-titled Military Diaries (also aimed for summer), more than 60 soldiers with cameras will record their days and talk about how music helps them cope. (As Apocalypse Now taught us, rockin' tunes are integral to modern...
...newscast was decking itself in electronic bunting, Pew's respondents gave the press high marks for both objectivity and "stand[ing] up for America." The apparent lesson: the public wants the media to dig hard--for good news. Still, Bruckheimer says Profiles won't be a whitewash. "Black Hawk shows a lot of blemishes," he notes. "It shows a lot of things going wrong, and I think that's part of the drama...
...five neighboring countries. China also quietly suffered a dramatic loss of influence over its closest regional ally, Pakistan, which it had earlier helped build a nuclear arsenal. Smaller signs of cooperation passed virtually unnoticed?China did not protest when three Japanese warships escorted the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Kitty Hawk from its base in Japan to launch assaults on Afghanistan. China has even surprised the U.S. with a new policy on Taiwan: it has downplayed its threats of war to prevent Taiwan's independence and will instead welcome visits by members of the independence-minded Democratic Progressive Party, once reviled...
...some modest transformation: the Navy will spend $1 billion to convert four Trident submarines that now fire nuclear missiles into Tomahawk cruise-missile launchers. The Army will fork out $707 million to develop lighter tanks, and the Air Force will pay $629 million to accelerate development of the Global Hawk unmanned spy plane, which flies farther and higher than the Predator, surveying more terrain. The Pentagon wants $3.3 billion to speed the gathering and distribution of intelligence, and $1.3 billion to improve communications. Special forces--the heroes of Afghanistan--are scheduled to get antimissile sensors and jammers, along with four...
...Issue ? Topics include the rock group Creed, the popular SpongeBob SqaurePants cartoon and the movie "Black Hawk Down...