Word: ownership
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...need for civic journalism in state politics arises from the decreased coverage of state politics by major news organizations such as Gannett and Knight Ridder, Fouhy said. More and more newspapers are passing from local to corporate ownership, he said...
Indeed, if Beowulf belongs to all English speakers, Heaney's writing also belongs to all English-speakers. Heaney's cultural reclamation has done more than recycle the same problem of exclusive ownership. Foregrounding the Irish perspective in English literature was not an aggressive repossession, but an invitation for others to try to crack the monopoly. Thankfully, Heaney keeps from falling into the same old trap: His cultural reclamation stakes out land for more than just one ethnic group, marking it off emphatically as a public space...
...Australia was John Glover (1767-1849), who settled in Tasmania at the ripe age of 64. He was a mediocre professional who knew, and sedulously imitated, the work of Claude Lorrain. But in Australia he did the best work of his life, celebrating the pastoral delights of land ownership and commemorating the Aborigines, whose way of life was being inexorably destroyed by white farmers like him. No painter in Australia ever committed himself as wholeheartedly to recording the life of Aborigines as, say, American artist George Catlin did to that of Indians. But Glover clearly meant The Last Muster...
...most successful argument the software giant could manage on another very tough day in antitrust court. The worst blow came when the feds displayed a mail from Dan Rosen -? who represented Microsoft at that crucial June 1995 meeting with Netscape. His priority, Rosen wrote, was to "establish Microsoft ownership of the Internet client platform for Windows 95." Microsoft lawyer John Warden had said Netscape must have "imagined" such an offer. Then again, Warden also claims the entire meeting was a sting concocted by the DOJ. "Any time a defendant says 'We were set up,'" said the government's lead attorney...
...regulations had allowed networks to own the programs they broadcast, and studios like Warner Bros., which supply shows to the networks, were worried that the broadcasters would begin to favor shows produced internally. By starting a network, Warner Bros. could guarantee an outlet for its programming. Time Warner shares ownership of the network with Tribune Broadcasting, Kellner and other officers...