Word: hype
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...covering real news -- Extra has done the seemingly impossible: it has made Entertainment Tonight look like journalism. The new show has a pair of hosts, Arthel Neville + and Dave Nemeth, who giggle and banter even more shamelessly than E.T.'s anchors, and the show seems to work harder to hype even less. For a two-part interview with Sharon Stone, Extra devoted more time to teasing the story (countless shots of the infamous leg-crossing scene from Basic Instinct) than to Stone's perky but paltry "revelations." The show has closely copied E.T.'s format, but it can't match...
...awareness of its profound deficiencies, the type that can't be can't be remedied in gutty practice sessions and late-night strategy sessions. For the past two years, the William and Mary games--both in the second week of the season, have muffled even the loudest pre-season hype...
...general, I think on one level most of the law students are fairly turned off by lots of the media hype," Epps says. But, he adds, "Law students are excited that for the first time the American public is going to watch a trial from start to finish...
...despite all the hype, and even a similar "Free O.J." party in the Quad, many students say they are not planning to tune in the trial. The Simpson case may play in L.A., but it is seen as too undignified to merit the attention of Harvard intellectuals...
...Delaney says her interest in the case has waned since that summer right, partly because of the hype...