Word: logical
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Unfortunately, it is precisely this type of practical political action which has the most difficult time getting a fair hearing in the press. Driven by the logic of the market to offer briefer and briefer sound bites as programming, newscasts present issues in terms of Manichean contrasts instead of complex human affairs. As the line between news and entertainment gets more and more blurry, the mass media has a narcotizing impact entirely hostile to participatory democracy...
...logic of this divestiture made sense initially but started to break down because of technological innovation known as the "convergence of modes." Essentially, engineers have devised ways of digitally transporting telecommunications ranging from letters to pictures to sounds on a single set of wires. This means that one socket could carry all this electronic information to the home. And different players ranging from cable television companies to the Baby Bells have jockeyed for position to be the first players to complete this "rewiring" in local markets...
...consequences for American democracy are ominous. As corporate giants quickly corner the information market and gobble up local television, radio, and newspaper outlets, press diversity will suffer. The logic of profit-driven programming will guarantee us more inanity in our sitcoms, more frivolity in our newscasts, more vacuity in our talk shows. The Republicans' efforts ignore one simple principle--true competition in the marketplace of ideas requires public regulation of communicative forums...
...possible, however, for a Third World nation to engage in terrorist activities focused on the private sector of the U.S. America is technologically ahead of every Third World country by perhaps 80 years. Terrorist activities nowadays usually revolve around fuel oil and fertilizer, not highly advanced "computer worms" or "logic bombs." ANDY LEMKE Troy, New York Via E-mail...
...statements about police misconduct and attacked the defense theory that Fuhrman had moved a glove from the murder scene to Simpson's house to engineer a frame-up. "This assertion is not supported by the record," Ito said. "The underlying assumption requires a leap in both law and logic that is too broad to be made based upon the evidence before the jury...