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...enduring belief that it must stay in the forefront of changes in media has driven its growth. The Beeb ballooned in the 1990s, adding staff and diversifying its operations and output. In came the rolling news service BBC News??24, along with a commercial arm, BBC Worldwide. In the drive for ratings, nobody stopped to ask if the corporation could sustain such growth or stretch itself in so many directions...
...touching of the temples. Nothing. Van Praagh didn't even pause; he just kept on talking. "Hairstyles will change drastically. I see unisex type of things." But the textile future was still coming in hazy. "I can't describe what textile it is, but large stitching." And?more good news???2015 will mean a lot more skin. "Josh, have you ever been to Brazil? It's beautiful. Women go topless on the beach. People will be O.K. with it." When a psychic predicts a future where women will be topless, you don't question his inability to envision your name...
...Is it news??if a man stands up to applaud at the end of a movie? It shouldn't be, not when virtually all the other audience members have already leaped to their feet. Yet Tom Freston's leg-stretch after last month's Sundance Film Festival screening of Hustle & Flow was hot dish to an avid press corps. You would have thought he was Brad and Jen, together again...
...listen to the radio, watch television and go to the movies, where they are also barraged with propaganda.* But with a lifetime of constant practice, Soviet citizens develop a mental filter that allows them to block out the ideological exhortations and concentrate instead on entertainment or just-the-facts news???to the extent that facts are printed...
...their apartments, but others groped in the dark. Anyone living on the upper floors was without water because pumps had stopped and rooftop tanks were quickly emptied. Some people preferred to bed down in the lobbies or walk the streets. Others sat in their cars, listening to the news???any news about the blackout...