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...residuals” that fall to writers have not kept up. When the residual formulas for basic cable networks were drawn up in the early 1980s, cable companies were in their infancy. Today, over 70 percent of American households have basic cable, and five major cable companies now out-profit the small “weblet” networks—UPN, Fox and WB—but the residuals for cable companies remain at a reduced rate. These weblets have also experienced vast increases in their advertising revenues, but these profits have not been shared with the writers...
...writers’ contributions has not. More consumers than ever now benefit from writers’ work through the expansion of cable as well as videocassette and DVD sales, foreign television success and the Internet. Though more Americans pay for their entertainment, American writers see little of the profit. The industries owe their writers fair compensation for the greater profits their work now creates...
...Currency: The Color of Money," at the Avery Research Center in Charleston, an African-American artist named John W. Jones took the romanticized slave-labor scenes from Confederate currency and reproduced them in oil paintings paired with the bills. The effect is to punctuate the exploitation of blacks for profit. One scene depicts a sun-lit goddess of good fortune in repose, counting her gold as slaves toil in the fields behind...
...what's coming next. The Russians have been talking with NBC about a Survivor-type show in which contestants compete for a ride on the space station, and have consulted the U.S. companies Boeing and Spacehab about a new module for the station that could be used for for-profit research--or even more tourism. The U.S. was always able to call the shots when it had sole control of its manned space program. Now that that control is being shared, visits by tycoons and TV personalities may be a distasteful but unavoidable part of the deal...
...soon as Young decided to make it a real business--she was already working 100 hours a week--she started looking for ways to cut costs and increase profit margins. One expense jumped out: the cost of shipping supplies that she was buying at her nearby Staples. She decided to go directly to the manufacturer to order bubble bags, self-sealing bags made of bubble wrap that she used to pack items...