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Recently, a student paper at Westfield State College in Massachusetts caused a ruckus by printing an advertisement for a bar hiring female dancers. According to the article in The Crimson, many students were outraged. Westfield student government secretary Kelly O'Neill wrote in an editorial, "When something is offensive or slanderous, it should not be said or printed." Another student, Owen Broadhurt, likened it to printing an ad for "the Ku Klux Klan, American Nazi Party, D'Aubisson death squads, or similar hideous miscreants...
...they told him he couldn't buy the Financial News Network, and in the past year they forbade his merger discussions with Capital Cities/ABC. The Castle Rock and New Line deals displeased his Time Warner board members, but evidently not enough to make them raise a serious ruckus. So Turner's movie-studio obsession has come full circle: buying into Hollywood now is a burst of old-fashioned Turner independence, the kind of high-priced, seat-of-the-pants action he has been denied as the result of his last, overleveraged Hollywood plunge seven years ago. It's his party...
...bought tickets for back-to-back games against the other expansion team, the Florida Marlins. "Neither of us had ever been to a major-league game before," Tancy observes, "so we said, 'Why not?' " They'll be back. So will Karen Harris, who "wanted to see what all the ruckus was about" and motored in from Wiggins, Colorado, 65 miles away. "Besides," says her husband Craig, "there's nothing to do in Wiggins." Maybe things are quiet in Chadron, Nebraska, too: a farmer there is a regular long-distance commuter to Mile High. After eight hours a day of riding...
When the Germans protested, Christopher did what was necessary to avoid a major ruckus, but stuck to his claim...
...issue in all these cases is simple, even banal: How will the artifacts of leisure be distributed? But the outcomes of all the corporate scheming and sniping will powerfully shape the way we live our 21st century lives. The proposed Macy's channel isn't causing much of a ruckus since no one is seriously threatened by it, even though TV shopping is already a shockingly big business (about $2 billion in annual sales). But until TV is fully interactive and viewers can browse through any sort of merchandise they want at will, home shopping will remain a slightly creepy...