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...shrubbery of Berkley Lane, where she grew up, and with drive and ambition, epitomized in the way the high school carries grade-point averages out to four decimal places for precision in class rank. This is where the American Dream still works, where crime is something glimpsed on a newscast, where the next generation prompts hope and not despair. Neither neighbors nor teachers nor her perhaps more candid peers see the girl's fall from grace as typical. To her fellow townspeople, Amy Fisher's life offers no moral alert, no cautionary lessons. She is just a postcard from beyond...
Whittle has already rankled many traditionalists with his profitable Channel One television network. That controversial venture provides a 12-minute morning newscast, complete with two minutes of commercials, to 7.8 million students each weekday. "I dread the thought of the profit motive infiltrating a noble area of public aspiration," says educator Jonathan Kozol. "Do we really want to give that power to Chris Whittle...
Channel One, a classroom newscast produced by Whittle Communications, has drawn fire for mixing commercials with current events. A Whittle-funded study has found that with or without ads, the show isn't having much impact. Students who watch the newscast score little better on current-events tests than do nonwatchers...
...York City as "Hymietown" during his presidential bid in 1984, did not produce a commensurate jump in support among black voters. Brown's fuzzy plan for a 13% flat tax bothered almost everyone. A bad week got worse when unnamed former security guards claimed on an abc newscast that there had been rampant marijuana and cocaine use during parties at Brown's Los Angeles home while he was Governor. Brown himself was not accused of drug use, and he vehemently denies all charges...
...just sucked up all the oxygen in the room." Co-anchor Cathy Burnham of the state's leading television outlet, WMUR, wryly acknowledged that fact last week as she introduced a story on Senator Bob Kerrey's health-care ideas. "And now," she said, minutes into the newscast's political coverage, "let's try to get to the issues...