Word: judgmentalism
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...glimpsed inside a car after her death--a shot that could easily be regarded as intrusive--ran even in the sober New York Times. Though editors and publishers say clear-cut rules are hard to set, the tragedy has heightened their sensitivity to the issue. "You have to exercise judgment when you know competitive forces are going to exercise less judgment and less taste," says Mort Zuckerman, publisher of the New York Daily News. In a letter to readers in this week's PEOPLE (published by Time Inc.), managing editor Carol Wallace writes that decisions on whether...
Kramer is remembered as Hollywood's pre-eminent social worker. In our frivolous age his signature films about racism (The Defiant Ones), nuclear war (On the Beach), Nazism (Judgment at Nuremberg) and interracial marriage (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner) evoke a dutiful do-gooderism: school lessons, church sermons, a stern talk from Dad. In It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: A Life in Hollywood (Harcourt Brace; 251 pages; $25), Kramer, 83, gets to make a case for the defense...
...free-speech proponents say customers looking for ideology-free screening might not be aware of how much they're missing. Censorware produces unpredictable and often unwanted results (see box), and most filterers consider their blacklists trade secrets. This puts Loudoun County in the position of letting private firms pass judgment on the contents of a medium that's supposed to offer easy access to all--a notion that's especially dubious in the case of the "free public library," Internet provider of last resort for those who can't afford a computer. "We serve the information needs of the whole...
...least one very big wave--of the future. Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser already includes a ratings program called RSACi. It has emerged as the leading Net-rating system that allows Web proprietors to rate their own sites instead of letting NetNanny and SurfWatch employees pass judgment for them. And rival Netscape, bowing to pressure from the White House at last month's censorware summit (Bill Clinton, predictably, loves ostensibly family-friendly software filters), has agreed to use rating systems in the next version of its browser. Even news organizations, whose free-speech obsession borders on the fanatic...
...significant reductions in local phone bills remain on hold. Less than one-half of one percent of U.S. households receive competitive local service, according to a study by the Yankee Group consulting firm, and not a single Baby Bell has opened its home market enough, in the judgment of regulators, to be permitted to offer long-distance calling there. "This law has been a disaster," says Arizona Republican Senator John McCain...