Word: lynton
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...carefully polled attacks on dirty hospitals, landgrabs by "gypsies," excessive numbers of immigrants and politically correct restraints on police. The Tories' chief strategist, Lynton Crosby, reportedly calls them "dog-whistle" issues: they cut through the noise of a campaign to make an emotional impact most resonant with true believers. At a press conference last week that focused on "yobs," louts whose behavior has shown up in polls as a big issue, Howard used the word "fear" eight times, as in "I want to make yobs fear the police." The association of police chiefs criticized the Tories' use of crime statistics...
...Michael Lynton doesn't fear challenges--he embraces them. That's a good thing, because he is leading Sony Pictures Entertainment through a period of tectonic shifts in the movie industry. At Sony, the former Disney executive who then headed Penguin Group and later AOL Europe will have to slash costs, find new opportunities in video-on-demand and combat file-sharing piracy. But Lynton believes there's a future for DVDs; he helped bring in a major financing partner for Sony's purchase of MGM and its valuable library of movies. "With new technologies," Lynton says, "the DVD becomes...
...thousands of so-called Level 4 operators, made up of everyone from real estate companies to apartment-house owners. "The oddest part of it all is that the cable operators themselves don't get the lion's share of the money. The Level 4 operators do," says Michael Lynton, head of AOL Time Warner's international ventures. "Ultimately the economics of the business have to change for cable operators to be interested in further investment...