Word: mainstreaming
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...college football or CSl on Monday nights and seeing the green-eyed platinum blond making dramatic hand gestures to her audience on Univision. At 56, the Cuban-American media mogul is riding a wave that seems in its mere infancy as the country's demographic becomes more Latino. Mainstream advertisers seeking to tap into the Hispanic market have flocked to her like Mexicans to mole. Most often compared with Oprah, Cristina is the host of a show that has received 11 Emmys during its 16 years. It is seen in Latin America, the U.S. and Europe. Cristina publishes...
...Abbas, moreover, recognizes that Hamas is an integral part of Palestinian society today, having been moved into the mainstream by the intifada. In recent municipal elections in the West Bank, the movement demonstrated the depth of its political support by winning an estimated 35 percent of the vote. And if they contest the legislative election set for March - which they look set to do - they can expect to win a little over 50 percent in Gaza, which together with a third of the West Bank vote could give them as much as 40 percent of the national vote. The idea...
Others weren't so easily co-opted. On the Internet, a volunteer army of bloggers escalated their guerrilla war against the mainstream media. They had previously spooked the (now former) executive editor of theNew York Times Howell Raines and even the (just as former) Senate majority leader Trent Lott, but when they helped push Dan Rather into early retirement, their real moment seemed to have come. Nevertheless, they stay on the margins--because, like all insurgents, they're about sniping, not governing...
...Marginally more professional was ?Fahrenhype 9/11,? narrated by ex-Leftie haranguer Ron Silver and co-written by tabloid scandal-magnet Dick Morris. This flabby, flailing enterprise pokes some of the same holes in ?Fahrenheit? that mainstream journalists had already spotted - and here I must join Moore in wishing aloud that these journalists had been half as resourceful in challenging the WMD claims of Bush-Cheney-Powell-Rumsfeld - while padding the rest out with malice, fat jokes and campaign speeches for the Republican ticket...
...reflexively and almost unanimously left-wing. (To my knowledge, there is simply no right-wing political documentary, unless you count ?Triumph of the Will,? Leni Riefenstahl?s hypnotic record of the Sixth Nazi Congress.) Moore had given the film industry?s poor, scrappy cousins a shot at the movie mainstream...