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...response to financial pressures, the Fung Wah Bus Transportation, which once offered hourly shuttles between the Chinatowns of Boston and New York City for as little as $10, has raised its fares to match those of competitors and has moved the buses to a more mainstream route...
...absurdly specific guidelines the parties hashed out before the event have already been widely reported—and ridiculed—even in the generally pliant mainstream American media. Instead of a meaningful discourse, Americans heard prepared answers to questions on pre-approved issues in a pre-negotiated format. Friday’s program was not a debate by traditional standards: It resembled a contest to see who could go ninety minutes without slipping-up more than it did an effort to delve into the complicated substance of pressing issues like the bubbling quagmire of Iraq, nuclear proliferation...
...scant attention the mainstream American press devotes to any hurricane’s path through the impoverished islands of the Caribbean is certainly frustrating. But because of the grievous destruction in both human and material terms, Jeanne seems a particularly outrageous case—almost all attention was focused on far less deadly damage to southern Florida. After all, it’s a swing state...
...what is involved in armed conflict and is likely the only way people can find out what it is really like. With the squeamishness of the American media and the folly of embedded reporting, it is unlikely that people are going to find out for themselves through mainstream media outlets. Under current Federal Communications Commission guidelines the average American viewer would be just as likely to see the kind of graphic wartime violence shown in Fahrenheit 9/11 on network television as he’d be to see Janet Jackson’s nipple again...
Toback may seem overzealous in his denouncement of the tenets of Hollywood cinema, but, nonetheless, it’s difficult to deny that very few mainstream directors could pull off not only the sexual content, but also some of the visual and especially sonic experimentation of When Will I Be Loved in a studio setting. This is to say nothing of his earlier films, particularly considering that his latest is actually more digestible than more intense offerings like 1999’s racially charged drama Black and White...