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...space. With nearly 9,000 titles out there, developers not only must compete for consumers' attention but they also have to pay retailers to stock their wares. That might cost $50,000 this Christmas season for a promotion at a regional chain. The casualties last week included the edu-tainment company Knowledge Adventure, being sold to CUC International (1995 sales: $1.9 billion), and Edmark, sold to IBM for $80 million. Last summer Humongous Entertainment, which makes the popular Freddi Fish series, merged with powerhouse GT Interactive. "I think it would have been very difficult to retain our market share through...
...have forced over $80,000 for the honor of the Veritas stamp was compounded by the fact that Dr. Mack's particular appearance was calculated to give a veneer of respectability to tales of alien abduction. Alien abduction, the one canard of vacuous day-time info-tainment that not even its trailer-park-bound viewership beats with a straight face...
...Jack City director Mario Van Peebles, who also plays a detective in the movie, argued that his film has an edifying message: "You see what drugs do to the people and how the drug king is put down. It's a piece of edu- tainment." To fend off the charge that movies with black casts and largely black audiences are particularly likely to incite violence, he reminded reporters that films like Francis Coppola's Godfather Part III had sparked similar outbursts...
What they all have in common is the ability to crush their nebulous thoughts into diamonds of political wisdom. Los Angeles Times political analyst William Schneider calls it the talent of "being pithy" and Kennedy School Lecturer Hale Champion calls it "info-tainment...
...shaping a newscast's style, cast and content; the concept of anchors as personalities rather than reporters. Those trends started in local news, but are spreading to the networks, according to some reporters. A CBS correspondent complains: "One executive refers to what we do as 'info-tainment...