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...second segment of the night dealt with the global problem of child labor...
...Mich., set off a round of finger pointing over the motives behind the performance. Oakland County prosecutor David Gorcyca, who filed the murder charges last Wednesday, accused Kevorkian of airing the video to satisfy his "attention-starved ego." CBS, meanwhile, faced accusations of exploiting the death for ratings. The segment did help boost the show's numbers--the household rating was up 20% over the season average--during the critical fall sweeps period, which sets local advertising rates. Don Hewitt, 60 Minutes' executive producer, insisted his show wasn't pandering for ratings. "I have a low threshold for discomfort...
Much Furby hype originated with the geek-chic set. The magazine you're reading is partly responsible. After Toy Fair '98, TIME ran a Techwatch item mentioning them. USA Today also noticed, and after an electronics fair in May, CBS This Morning did a segment. That ginned up interest last summer, even though Furby's complicated innards meant it wouldn't be ready for stores until fall...
Fast forward to the early '80s. Now defunct Coleco, an electronic-toy company, noticed that unique, arty dolls made in Georgia and first sold at fairs had developed celeb cache. Amy Carter and Burt Reynolds were seen with them. Real People did a segment (bonus points if you remember host Sarah Purcell). Coleco began aggressively pushing the Cabbage Patch dolls--it sent them directly to reporters, a relatively new technique. Of course the Cabbage Patch Kids eventually sold well (more than $700 million) because kids liked them. But the adult hook--reporters thought the dolls looked "traditional," like the ones...
...launching a sexual-harassment case against President Clinton: calmer hair, better teeth, a new nose. But by late this summer she had also seen her case thrown out by a lower court, and her real life was feeling more like an episode from Married...With Children than a segment on Entertainment Tonight: between makeovers, she was a mother with two young kids and an unemployed husband. "After four years, Paula was getting tired," says a family friend. "They were cooped up in this small one-bedroom apartment. She didn't have many friends, her husband Steve spent all day watching...