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...much coverage as Kerry in 2003. Forty-nine percent of Dean’s mentions were deemed positive, compared to a whopping 78 percent for the other Dems combined. It became even worse on the day of Iowa: before the caucuses, the Center reports that 98 percent of the network evening news coverage of Kerry and Edwards was positive, compared to 58 for Dean. Even more remarkable than the numbers themselves is the rabid ferocity with which the media buried Dean. Sawyer even went after Dean’s wife, repeatedly saying that she could just “hear...
...irony is that in anticipation of these circumstances, Democrats have spent the past year searching for exemptions in the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance-reform law that they themselves had long championed. One method they are banking on: a network of new organizations known as 527s (after the section of the IRS code that gives them tax-exempt status), which can raise unlimited money for advertising and voter-registration efforts, as long as they don't coordinate with the candidate. But that strategy faces a crucial test this week at the Federal Election Commission...
...high-definition television available to more than 80% of subscribers ahead of schedule. With $18.3 billion in revenues in 2003, Comcast bills 21.5 million cable subscribers each month (out of 40 million potential customers in the areas it services) and, after unloading its stake in the QVC home-shopping network for $7.9 billion, has a balance sheet healthy enough to go at Disney...
...income is down $583 million from its 1998 peak of $1.85 billion, and Disney shares hovered at about $24, down from a high of $43.63 in April 2000, before a run-up last week on takeover speculation. The pair underlined Disney's shortcomings. Among them: the ABC television network, mired in fourth place in the ratings war, made just $37 million in 2003, after clearing $1 billion in operating income in 2000; and Eisner failed to deliver the cash forecast from his $5.2 billion purchase of the Fox Family Channel, which was renamed the ABC Family Channel. Over at Disney...
...space in its hilarious SportsCenter ads (in one spot, Mark McGwire, a famous recluse, smashed a computer with a bat at ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Conn.). President Bush is a SportsCenter fan. According to Beta Research, subscribers and cable-system operators rank ESPN as the most valuable network on cable...