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...Iraqi authorities, it states, "have told Amnesty that such incidents occurred with the knowledge or even in the presence of U.S. troops." A lawyer for four Palestinians who are long-time residents of Iraq told the human rights group that his clients, arrested by the Iraqi Interior Ministry's Wolf Brigade paramilitary force last May 12, were beaten with cables, shocked with electricity and had their faces burned with lighted cigarettes to extract confessions (later recanted) for bomb attacks. The four men "alleged too that a U.S. military officer was present at one time in the room in which they...
...game is the $60 billion television industry. When the savvy producer pitched a new crime show called Power to NBC, he made sure to play up its download-ready qualities. In Wolf's words: "I drank the Kool-Aid." As Wolf and other producers sell their wares in the annual TV-industry ritual known as development season, new technologies are changing the way they do business. With high-quality video available on 200 million PCs via broadband, 200 million 3-GB mobile phones, an estimated 4 million iPods and other devices, the Big Four networks...
...Nobody has a deal yet," admits Wolf, explaining that he and other major producers must take a leap of faith to cross TV's digital divide. "I have no idea what this will be worth, but I suspect it's the next big thing." Or in the case of his son's pocket Christmas present, the next big small thing...
...Office are treated to multiformat distribution: they are sold as downloads or video-on- demand, cut and clipped for cell phones and marketed via online video blogs or audio podcasts, sometimes hours after they air on television. Or sometimes before. Late last month, NBC debuted another new Wolf drama, Conviction, on Apple's iTunes weeks before its network premiere, to generate buzz for the series...
...content for NBC Universal. "We now look at every show's potential for wireless, online and other new media." The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, for instance, has an "embedded" writer-producer whose job is to focus on the best bits for nonbroadcast platforms. In dramas, Law & Order producer Wolf envisions shooting more close-ups to accommodate smaller screens, as well as edgier scenes that might help sell downloads but wouldn't get past the networks' censors...