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...Ebert disputed that on his website shortly afterward: "Contrary to Disney's press release, I did not demand the removal of the Thumb [trademark]. They made a first offer on Friday which I considered offensively low. I responded with a counter-offer. They did not reply to this, and on Monday ordered the Thumbs [trademark] removed from the show." Ebert went on to say that he would allow the thumbs to be used on the show during negotiations...
Russia Muzzles Press The Russian government banned a television show and 15 opposition newspapers and ordered two others -- including Pravda -- to fire their editors and change their names if they wanted to remain open. The Press Ministry said the news organizations had ''promoted destabilization'' during the revolt earlier this month...
ADMITTED. AL GOLDSTEIN, 57, publisher; to the National Press Club; in Washington. By being allowed to join the ultimate Establishment journalists organization, the puckish creator of the bluntly pornographic Screw magazine has been put on an equal footing with reporters and editors from the New York Times, the Washington Post and other more conventional publications. The move is deeply offensive to some club members, but Goldstein's papers were in order, and he had found the required two sponsors...
...sorry to see your article on religious fanaticism limited to Islam. Even here in the U.S., Fundamentalist religious zealots are utilizing tactics of terror, intimidation and murder to press their agenda of stopping abortions. When religious fervor crosses over to acts of terrorism it becomes a social plague for all our society that must be carefully controlled. William B. Nash Burlington, Vermont...
...much better at keeping the two distinct. After spewing out ethnic insults on the Tonight Show, Don Rickles (who is back on TV this fall in a Fox sitcom) usually let Johnny Carson know what a sweet guy he really was inside. Stern, after staying aloof from the press for years, has suddenly turned into a ubiquitous and cooperative talk-show guest -- the big, shaggy ''bad boy'' of radio. Friars Club roasts have long served as a sort of free-fire zone, where offensive material can spew forth uncensored, mainly because