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...aside criticism that may be legitimate. Each issue of a newspaper includes not only the news, but also the editors' and reporters' personal judgments about what is interesting and important. Consequently, news people are not always willing to take criticism. To question an editor's judgment, they think, is paramount to questioning a bloodhound's nose. When news is the topic, few journalists will readily admit they are wrong, especially when non-journalists are raising the questions...
Among the attackers: Paramount TV this month unveiled not only Deep Space Nine but also The Untouchables, a new version of the Prohibition gangster saga. Warner Bros. TV has lined up 142 stations to carry Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, with David Carradine back as a mystic martial artist, and Time Trax, about a 22nd century cop who goes time-traveling in search of criminals who have escaped to the 20th century. They join such other hours as Highlander (the adventures of a centuries-old Scottish "immortal"), Renegade (Lorenzo Lamas as a motorcycle-riding ex-cop) and Street Justice...
...first time since 1964 -- not because two young Southerners wowed voters there, but because both states had plunged from prosperity during the Bush years. In the national exit poll conducted by Voter Research & Surveys, a consortium of TV networks, 43% of voters named the economy as the paramount issue -- twice the percentage identifying any other concern. Among that 43%, Clinton topped Bush better than...
...charmed career of Brandon Tartikoff -- at 43, head of Paramount Pictures after leading NBC television to Cosby-esque heights during the '80s -- has been shadowed by personal calamity: two bouts with cancer and last year an auto accident that grievously injured his 9-year-old daughter. The private side has won out, as Tartikoff relinquished his Paramount post last week to spend more time with his recuperating child. His 15-month reign included the rough seas of the plodding Columbus epic 1492: Conquest of Paradise and the register-ringing teen-twitter Wayne's World...
...money manager, you may already have scaled back your ownership of pharmaceutical stocks, already have moved into "infrastructure" plays. The "Clinton stocks" people have identified -- H&R Block (because the tax code might change yet again), Caterpillar (because you need heavy equipment to build infrastructure), Paramount Communications (because of its huge textbook operation) and a zillion others -- may still be good buys. But I've never met anyone who got rich in the '60s buying shares in "the company that makes schoolroom desks," which was one of the plays after Kennedy got elected; and while I believe Clinton will...