Word: segments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cutesy segment titles signal the everyday roots and the antagonistic tone: "Get Real, Honey, Your Boyfriend Is a Dog"; "Pack Your Bags or You'll Wish You Were Dead"; "I Want to Tell My Cheating Boyfriend It's Now or Never"; "You're the Rudest Thing Alive . And I'm Sick of Your Attitude." For that last, a fired McDonald's employee got into a shouting match with a customer over who dissed whom at the drive-up window. These are guests who come out of the vast expanse of anonymous Middle America, from trailer parks to ghettos, that...
While a large segment of public broadcasting's audience is educated and affluent, lower income individuals make extensive use of it as well. CPB President Richard Carstone testified that 76 percent of his listeners do not have a college degree. And CPB's programs are particularly important for these poorer families, where educational opportunities are already bleak...
...superstar Michael Jackson today brought a $100 million lawsuit against Paramount Pictures, the producers of "Hard Copy," calling a January 9 report aired by the TV tabloid show "slanderous, vicious and wholly fabricated." Diane Dimond, the "Hard Copy" reporter for the segment, claimed that a videotape had surfaced, allegedly showing Jackson sexually involved with a young boy, and that prosecutors had reopened their child molestation case against the singer. The Los Angeles District Attorney's office has denied that it is investigating such a tape. Also named in the suit: "Hard Copy" producer Stephen Doran, two hosts...
...catfight engaged moral extremes that put William J. Bennett's The Book of Virtues on the best-seller list for the entire 52 weeks, while the world watched a regular Ring cycle of gaudy, televised, weirder- than-fiction unvirtue. The Nicole Brown Simpson murder was merely the most riveting segment...
...There is always a certain segment that ascribes to his political views, but there are also others that could represent them," she said...