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...fact, for a supposedly "warts and all" show, the series romanticizes its subject. For the most part, News's professionals, like The West Wing's, are "flawed" merely by being virtuous workaholics who sometimes make pragmatic choices. They spend most of their screen time chasing major stories, not celebrity arrests and missing-persons sagas. And by focusing on shoe-leather journalists, the six episodes sent to critics ignore the real mainstays of today's cable news: the daily aneurysms of O'Reilly, Chris Matthews, James Carville and the rest of the yak pack. If the show manages to come back...
...adviser Karl Rove, who became a fan during the campaign because he liked how the phrases showed up in still pictures and close-ups. The downside, it became apparent last week, comes when the words ("Strengthening Our Economy") don't match up with the numbers also on the TV screen (the plunging...
Entering the flashing, bleeping world of the Barbican Art Gallery's Game On show is like stepping into an arcade circa 1975. The faces of teenage boys, eerily lit from below, seem hypnotized by consoles decorated with intergalactic centipedes. On the screens, a bear fights with waltzing trees and chorus lines of space jellyfish advance, firing from the hip. Videogames have reached their fourth decade, and the Game On exhibition traces their development from the simple tennis contest Pong to cinematic role-playing games like Final Fantasy. But the show is not just a timeline of game genres and chip...
...what, exactly, will people really want to see on a portable 5-cm screen? "Lingerie," suggests T-Mobile's Tube station ads. That may just be a bit of mildly naughty fun, but a 2001 survey of users of i-mode, the popular Japanese wireless Web service, found that 77% of those aged 20 to 40 received e-mail from porn sites on their phones. Already in the U.K., Playboy has been busy putting together deals with networks to provide, ahem, content. "In the early days on the content side, I think [sex] will be a big, big driver," says...
...stocks and bull market in terror warnings, every bit of bad news resonates tenfold. And while there hasn't been any real increase in the number of child abductions it certainly seems that way, with the images of Danielle Van Dam, Elizabeth Smart and Samantha Runnion on every TV screen and the nights filled with the sound of mothers weeping for their children because they...