Word: warners
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...wouldn't know it from the cover story or the movie review, but "Twister" is the most prominent release for the season of Warner Brothers, a Time Warner Entertainment Company, with a soundtrack on Warner Sunset Records, a division of Warner Music Group, and a World Wide Web Site on Pathfinder, Time Warner's ad-infested base in cyberspace. "Twister" is simply another product, albeit an important one, which will affect the health of the Time Warner entertainment octopus. Who ever said that American firms weren't cooperative? At the behest of Time Warner, the consumer is forced to experience...
Hootie and the Blowfish, a new Top 40 feel-good "rock" band that oozes generic lyrics like "I always want to be with you" to monotone riffs lasting no longer than two minutes, merits a full-page photograph among the 48 glossy leaves of Time Warner's 1995 Annual Report. Hootie and his fish, a property of Time Warner's Atlantic Records label, created America's top-selling album for the previous year, gaining the obvious right to be heralded among the entertainment giant's other financial achievements, which together totaled over $3.3 billion in earnings...
Time Magazine, the standard bearer of American news magazines since 1898 and another subsidiary of Time Warner, received a half-page photo a bit later in the annual report, smaller than those of its sister publications Sports Illustrated and People. The financials section of the report, in no small coincidence, lauds revenue increases from Sports Illustrated and People in the publishing division but makes not a mention of Time. At the earnings hierarchy that is Time Warner, it doesn't matter what the subsidiary does so much as its pecuniary contribution to the parent company...
Perhaps you might think that Time Warner Chair and CEO Gerald M. Levin and his corporate comrades high up at 75 Rockefeller Plaza treat Time with kid gloves, as a special journalistic baby and--as a supposed bulwark of media integrity--one of the corner-stones of the American democracy. You would be wrong. In his letter to shareholders, Mr. Levin writes, "Our commitment is...to provide our shareholders with a consistently superior return on their investment in our company." And to that end, ethics may be conveniently misplaced...
...there was always laughter when he was around." Later Clurman took on cultural challenges, serving as New York City administrator of parks, recreation and cultural affairs and on the board of Lincoln Center. His books include To the End of Time, which was critical of the Time Warner merger...