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...fine, and deep inside we even feel a little guilty about our confidence. It sets us apart from the country at large just now; it even stirs a certain loneliness. We remember Sept. 11, and how cut off we felt with no white jet trails in the vast blue sky, no UPS trucks on the long dirt roads and only our satellite dishes and computers connecting us to whoever was still out there...
...Wanted! In China to help catch murderers and Late Night Talk with a Letterman knock-off reading Top 10 lists. But censors have refused to clear a Friends-style show with allusions to premarital sex. Although News Corp. won the right to beam its Mandarin-language channel, Starry Sky, across the country to certain hotels and apartments, it is unclear whether Rupert Murdoch will be allowed to reach China's 95 million ordinary cable subscribers. The Communist Party will be the judge on that one. --By Matthew Forney/Beijing...
...delivery vehicle is a new Mandarin-language TV channel called Xing Kong Wei Shi (Starry Sky). Rolled out last year by News Corp.'s Asian subsidiary, Hong Kong-based Star Group Ltd., the new channel has already produced 700 hours of programming based on Western concepts. There's a real-life police show reenacting grisly mainland murders (Wanted! In China), China's first televised male beauty contest (Women in Control), a talk show with a wisecracking host ? la David Letterman (Late Night Talk), and soon there will be Sang Lan, the gymnast who won hearts after a paralyzing fall...
...year ago, the government relaxed a bit when it let Starry Sky and AOL Time Warner (through its China Entertainment Television, or CETV) become the first foreign broadcasters to deliver Mandarin-language entertainment channels legally over cable. That gave them access to ordinary Chinese viewers. But the government restricted them to China's toughest TV market: Guangdong province in southern China, where viewers prefer Cantonese-language programs available from Hong Kong. In January, Starry Sky also gained approval for satellite transmission to luxury hotels and expatriates' apartments nationwide?the same deal enjoyed by about 30 foreign-language channels. Even with...
...another was born," wrote editor-at-large Nancy Gibbs in the issue we published less than 48 hours after Sept. 11, 2001. While history usually takes decades and life spans to unfold, on certain days the world seems to spin faster on its axis. Out of a clear blue sky comes a turn of events that changes everything by the time the sun goes down. Some of those days we remember by the numbers alone--not only 9/11 but also days like Nov. 22, 1963. Others we remember by a single dramatic step after years of preparation, as when Neil...