Word: mix
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...trial also proved to be a tricky test for the people who decide what mix of news CNN will beam to its global audience. As the network's impact has grown, those decisions have become more crucial. To the extent that the images CNN chooses to show -- Boris Yeltsin defying coup plotters or a reporter sifting through bomb damage in Baghdad -- are important in shaping people's attitudes and governments' policies, a handful of news executives in Atlanta are among the world's most influential journalists...
...CHRISTMAS REVELS. This wonderful mix of classical and traditional music, medieval theater and whatnot else is now staged in seven cities -- Cambridge, Mass.; Hanover, N.H.; New York City; Oakland; Philadelphia; Washington; and Houston. This is not a tour: these are separate productions, each under local control, each a little different. Performance dates differ but range from...
...Electronic Cafe International in Santa Monica, California, the emphasis is on a mix of video and poetry called Telepoetics. At one recent event a poet in Santa Fe read a work about childbirth over telephone wires that fed into the cafe public address system. While her disembodied voice filled the room, images of her performance in New Mexico were projected onto three TV screens...
...women who think they resemble presiding Circuit Judge Mary Lupo. A team from Geraldo Rivera's media empire turns up and obtains live footage of dozens of other journalists ordering Diet Pepsis and Campari-and-seltzers at the event. The cameraman zeroes in on the bartender as he mixes a drink and passes it to a thirsty reporter. Lights, camera, action. The cameraman works for the program Now It Can Be Told. Now it can be told that bartenders in Palm Beach mix + Campari-and-seltzers for journalists from out of town? Why couldn't it be told before...
...reporters like Goodman focus on everything else but the trial at hand. The situation is tempting, for what writer or critic would refuse a chance to look at this trial? It's juicy, sexy, colorful and demanded by the public. The same principles apply to other "faddish" events which mix hard news with sensational and sordid events--like the Clarence Thomas hearings, the Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker scandals and the recent David Duke gubernatorial campaign...