Word: media
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...image of a easygoing Al Gore carousing on a stage with Tommy Lee Jones is not one that fits with current media portrayals of the vice president. Many of Gore's Harvard friends, especially Somerby, have publicly castigated the media for portraying Gore as an elitist...
...Harvard in 1965, Gore couldn't be completely insular. It was difficult for any student to escape the daily barrage of national and international affairs. The war in Vietnam had just begun to receive intense, critical coverage in the national media...
There may be nothing untoward about a prayer muttered in the cockpit of a plane about to plunge headlong into the ocean. But given the history - amplified, and sometimes simplified, by the media and the movies - of terrorists claiming to be inspired by Islam, it could also signal a motive for what is now suspected of having been the criminal downing of EgyptAir Flight 990. The NTSB Tuesday was set to hand over the investigation of the crash to the FBI, believing that the final cockpit conversations on the Boeing 767's voice-data recorder indicate that a crew member...
Last week's news should have set press watchdogs yipping and gnashing. American Media, the company that already owns the National Enquirer and the Star, the two top-selling supermarket tabloids in the U.S., announced that it would pay $105 million to buy the Globe, the third biggest. The deal would also give American Media ownership of other Globe titles, including the Sun and the National Examiner, putting nearly all of America's tabloid gossip under one corporate umbrella. This raises big journalistic issues: Are the heady days when the tabs fought for JonBenet Ramsey and Prince William exclusives about...
David Pecker, the former chief of Hachette Filipacchi (Elle, George) who became president and CEO of American Media in May, vows that the Globe acquisition will actually lead to a greater diversity among the big three tabloids. After he and his partners, including ex-Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman, bought American Media for $850 million, Pecker cast a cold eye on his new possessions, which had been losing circulation for five years. (The Enquirer, the Star and their wacky sibling, Weekly World News, sell a combined 4.4 million copies weekly, down 35% since 1994.) One reason, he contends, is that...