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This year the Crimson needed to find another electrical outlet to plug into. They already had the talent, loads of talent, all the way through their roster. But the team needed something else...
...introduction, Wideman explains the binding theme that he has chosen for this year: "I was seeking and found in the stories I've selected some hint that imagination can change the world, that the world is unfinished," and true to these criteria each story seems to have an outlet for the fantastic or the unbelievable...
...selling any of them. US West is strategically committed to cable because the company sees the cable-telephone hybrid as the perfect pipeline into consumers' homes, capable of handling video, voice and data. It might be willing to give Time Warner its freedom--as well as a guaranteed outlet for programming--in exchange for majority ownership of the cable assets...
...from his board of directors to do so. "Cable is the key issue--it's the only issue," says a source close to the board. In Levin's thinking, by marrying content, such as films and television, with distribution--networks and cable systems--Time Warner will always have an outlet for its products. The Turner deal is an extension of that thinking...
...democratic impulse in news is also reflected in the current vogue for "public" or "civic" journalism. Under this philosophy, pioneered by newspapers like the Wichita Eagle and Minneapolis Star Tribune, the news outlet seeks to "reconnect" with its community by taking polls, sponsoring issue forums and seeking solutions to neighborhood problems. For this year's political races in North Carolina, for example, several of the state's newspapers and TV stations banded together to poll voters on what issues they wanted to see addressed, and then focused coverage on those issues. The editors involved argue that this approach has made...