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...considering a presidential run, and no wonder. Running the network, he has more influence on conservatism than John Boehner or Michael Steele does. Besides, talk is cheap, but politics is expensive. One of America's most successful media figures turned politician is New York City's Michael Bloomberg--a mogul rather than a screen personality--and he was barely able to buy a third term as mayor...
...drain toward the cable channels, Winfrey is shifting her attention to the Oprah Winfrey Network, OWN, which she plans to launch with Discovery Communications in 2011. The question is, Who is Oprah without Oprah? The show was monolithic in a way that's no longer possible, even for a mogul like Winfrey. She plans to "appear on and participate in" programs on OWN, but nobody is saying whether she'll have a show of her own. Bereft of her royal presence, will people care what Oprah wants them to watch...
There's nothing new about breasts, thighs and silliness on Italian TV. They have bedazzled viewers since the 1980s, when the television stations of Silvio Berlusconi, a mere media mogul before entering politics, revolutionized the airwaves by putting Italians on a diet of American soap operas, football and sex all over his Mediaset empire. But the formula was about more than TV ratings; it also boosted Berlusconi's political fortunes. (See pictures of Berlusconi and the politics...
...Tremonti, Silvio Berlusconi's top economic-policy aide since the media mogul first entered politics promising Thatcherite reforms, has been accused by his critics of adopting a populist strain similar to Sarkozy's. He shocked the Italian establishment with a vigorous Oct. 19 defense of the job for life, which many in the center-left opposition don't even stand up for anymore. "Mobility in itself isn't a value," he told a Milan conference. "The lifetime job is the base on which to build a life and a family. For me, the fundamental objective is stability of work, which...
...Security Administration received a mandate for a national photography project that did much to lift the spirits of the country. In the early days of both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, officials lobbied hard for an Arts Secretary. Shortly after President Obama’s election, music composer and mogul Quincy Jones briefly pushed for a cabinet-level position so the average American kid might know who Toni Morrison and Joan Baez...