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...Officially Silverman, the 38-year-old co-chairman of NBC Universal Entertainment, is leaving the network in the fall to start a new company with IAC, the media and Internet firm founded and headed by another colorful former TV executive, Barry Diller. But speculation has been rife about the fate of the much-storied Silverman since his two-year contract at NBC was not reviewed in June. NBC president and CEO Jeff Zucker had earlier made it clear that if Silverman were at NBC, it would be because NBC wanted him there. Presumably, the reverse is also true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ben Silverman Leaves NBC: Exit the No-Hit Hitmaker | 7/28/2009 | See Source »

Regardless of street credit, “fuck” is the appropriate response when the biggest media scandal in years hits the company where you work. The Guardian story exposed allegations that The News of the World—a News International newspaper—is rife with journalists who illegally tap the phones of thousands of prominent British figures. Journalists tend to stride to and attend the same meetings as politicians, the police, and lawyers, and consequentially figures from every one of these forums are embroiled in the scandal...

Author: By Olivia M. Goldhill | Title: Walk the Walk | 7/23/2009 | See Source »

...This is another act of desperation by a regime that is terrified of public opinion.' ROSEANN RIFE, a program director for Amnesty International, criticizing China for its sweeping crackdown on civil liberties associated with the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 7/6/2009 | See Source »

...insistent and bloody, were the tiny electronic dispatches from protesters forced off the streets in Tehran, shaky videos from a city screaming for help. For outsiders tuned in to the blog posts, Facebook updates, Tweets and YouTube videos, the torrent of information was compelling and confusing, emotional and rife with rumors, full of sound and fury signifying ... what we do not yet know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the World Didn't See in Tehran | 6/21/2009 | See Source »

Researchers said that many of the perpetrators reported having bullied or been bullied. The study also underscores the huge divide between South Africa's liberal constitution, which enshrines the rights of women and children, and "the realities of a society where poverty, inequality and violence are rife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa's Rape Crisis: 1 in 4 Men Say They've Done It | 6/20/2009 | See Source »

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