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...even though Carson was simply an entertainer, when he died Jan. 23 of emphysema at age 79, the reaction was like that to the passing of a head of state--specifically, Ronald Reagan's last year. On Tonight, Carson did a dead-on impression of Reagan, but the resemblance did not end there. Both men defined how to accrue and wield power in the mass-media age. They were two of the last broadcasters: Carson, compared with today's niche entertainers; Reagan, contrasted against today's red-and-blue-fixated political micromarketers. Both were Midwesterners transplanted to California who merged...
...victimization to catch the attention of all humanity. It takes a multicontinental cataclysm--instantaneous, catastrophic, widely spread--to shake the world from its self-absorption. The tsunami that destroyed thousands of lives from Sumatra to Somalia engendered an instant, near-universal outpouring of concern, shared grief and charitable giving. Ronald Reagan once startled the U.N. by suggesting in a speech that humanity would unite and forget its petty divisions if we were attacked from outer space. This elicited widespread head scratching, but the point was unassailable: external threats do exactly that--not little green men but forces closer to home...
...even more sinister things at work in Bush’s speech, believing that this grand vision of global democracy is merely cover for the expansion of unregulated global capitalism and the exploitation that inevitably comes with it. This is especially true of a man whose ideological forebears (Ronald Reagan and George Bush I) installed a number of dictators and corrupt regimes in the name of ensuring democracy over communism. Even some of those on the right are hesitant to embrace Bush’s message, wondering aloud where the isolationist Texas governor who campaigned...
...Beyond simple sanitation, the essence of good public health is meticulous data collection?finding and snuffing out the sparks of disease before they become the fire of an epidemic. "You have a heightened need for information," says Dr. Ronald Waldman, an emergency public-health expert at Columbia University who helped set up the WHO's disease surveillance program in Indonesia. Waldman and his team quickly passed out detailed surveillance forms to all health agencies working in Aceh, asking them to report any cases they found of diseases that could turn into epidemics. The morning after the early warning system...
...media’s attention. In the beginning, gangsta rap’s obsession with reporting the conditions of ghetto life to outsiders granted America a great service: NWA’s “F--- Tha Police” exposed police brutality, while Public Enemy brazenly dissed Ronald Reagan by exposing the other side of his policies. This tradition reached its peak in the mid-1990s, when Nas’ Illmatic, the Notorious B.I.G.’s Ready to Die and the Wu-Tang Clan’s Enter the 36 Chambers conveyed vivid street tales, but permeated...