Word: media
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead of contributing to the media hype that so negatively affects the lives of MIT students (much more than fraternities actually do), you should consider supporting your peers down the river...
Moreover, an informed public opinion relies upon truthfulness from the press. Yet, this truthfulness is complicated by the fact that the Russian government enjoys a virtual monopoly over mass media. The government has severely restricted live coverage of the events in Chechnya on national television, effectively keeping millions of Russians uninformed of catastrophic civilian casualties. More troublesome is that the Russian government has restricted foreign and independent news agencies' access to Chechnya as well. Most of the Russian government's claims about the Chechen conflict cannot be independently corroborated, meaning that the Russian people--and the world--are basing their...
...know you think, especially after last year's mini-media feeding frenzy, that there are too many people with not enough information and too much to say on the subject of the clubs. Let me say right now, in the way of a disclaimer, that you may be right. I don't pretend to know it the clubs inside and out, to fully understand their current function. Let me also say that, although I am writing from a liberal, critical corner of the arena, I don't hate them--or at least, and more to the point, I certainly...
...Joliet, Ill. But the only two words you need to know are anime, the Japanese animated films that are made for theaters, TV and home video; and manga, the graphic novels (upmarket comic books) on which most anime films are based. Together they dominate Japan's narrative media. Manga account for a third of all books published there, anime for about half the tickets sold to movies...
...potential adult audience for graphic novels and cartoon films should have the U.S. media giants drooling. Just love those demographics! Think of the cross-marketing! A few players are onto anime already. Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records, is a big investor in Manga Entertainment, the premier U.S. arm for anime. Its spectral cyborg parable, Ghost in the Shell, was the only anime to reach No. 1 on Billboard's Top Video Sales chart. Perfect Blue (a kind of All About Evil, in which a pop diva is both the star and her twisted alter ego) has played...