Word: news
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However, the Food Lion case represents at best a Pyrrhic victory for the American press. Public confidence in the news media, as evidenced by the multi-million-dollar jury verdict, is lower than any newspaper or television network would like to admit. Tactics that skirt or violate the law will buy no friends among a public already quick to identify bias in reporters and dismiss their reports. The press occupies too important a position in the democratic process to be complacent towards this ambient distrust; perceptions of a biased, unethical or irresponsible press will only encourage the public...
That's bad news in an industry that relies on hits to get kids and parents into the stores. This year, for example, Hasbro and retailers were betting on products licensed from Star Wars' prequel Phantom Menace to drive sales into the crucial fourth quarter, which accounts for half of all toy sales. However, the force has not been with the Star Wars line. "It was very strong in May and June, during the movie's release," says Leslie Rauch, a senior buyer for Target stores. "But since then, it's become nothing more than a boy's action figure...
...look at some of the hit toys of the past few years--Super Soakers, Air Hogs, Beanie Babies, Furby, even Gus Gutz. They came from small companies with no movie licensing tie-ins. That's bad news for Mattel's Barad. She needs a hot toy this holiday season more than any six-year-old does. Otherwise, the only thing Barad may get for Christmas is fired...
...rule, high schools don't make national news unless something terrible has happened, as was unfortunately the case last spring at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. For this week's 35-page special report, however, TIME chose Webster Groves, a suburb of St. Louis, Mo., in part because it has not been benighted by violence...
...because it was...well, remarkably average. Curiously enough, given its serene and unnewsworthy nature, Webster Groves has been the subject of inordinate national attention over the years--happily so in 1996, when President Clinton came to honor the school's antidrug efforts, less happily in 1965, when a CBS News team, led by producer Arthur Barron and renowned correspondent Charles Kuralt, arrived to film Sixteen in Webster Groves, a one-hour documentary about the town and its high school-age adolescents...