Word: press
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some form of vision impairment. By the year 2010, when boomers will all have reached age 45, that total will increase to 20 million--a number that has not escaped publishing houses. "There's been a huge growth in the number of titles available," says Fred Olsen of Thorndike Press, the world's largest publisher of large-print books. "The number has probably doubled in the past five years...
...wish I were home right now. For someone whose favorite Shel Silverstein poem is "Jimmy Jet and His T.V. Set," this would have been the opportunity of a lifetime. In my hand would be the remote control with the power to influence American television with the press of a button...
...would pick the American media. Yugoslavia was ranked among the most repressive countries in the world for journalists by the Committee to Protect Journalists. Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, along with Fidel Castro of Cuba and Jiang Zemin of China, tops a list of enemies of the free press released by the committee Monday. Milosevic has been notoriously intolerant of independent journalists, both foreign and Yugoslavian. As for Tanjug, it operates out of something called the Ministry of Information, whose sinister, Orwellian name doesn't inspire much confidence in its objectivity...
This is hardly the only diatribe against the Western press you'll find on the Tanjug wire. A good percentage of the news agency's articles attack stories in the British and American media, particularly those on CNN, which Tanjug says is assuming "a leading role in the new propaganda undertaking...
...Internet poses a real threat to Milosevic. It would be naive to think that if the free press returned to Yugoslavia, the Serbian people would suddenly turn against their president and his genocidal campaign in Kosovo; the situation is far more complicated than that. But especially in a war that NATO has made clear it wants to end not with a military victory but with a negotiated settlement, free access to independent media might be part of the solution...