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...ownership disclosure in David Honig's N.A.A.C.P. case, nbc filed a formal request that the commission clarify its rules on foreign control, thereby boosting pressure on the commission to examine Murdoch's ownership. "What are you doing this for?" Murdoch demanded in a telephone call to Robert Wright, president of NBC. "The record is clear. You can't be serious." Wright replied: "You've cost me a lot of money. I've got to stop...
...just as the feud threatened to get really ugly, NBC withdrew its challenge. The battle had got "much too personal," Wright said. It became clear, however, that something more than conscience had come to bear: nbc announced that it had reached an agreement with Murdoch under which nbc would be able to transmit some of its cable programming over Murdoch's Star TV network...
Crimson President Andrew L. Wright '96 spoke onNational Public Radio and CBS' "This Morning"yesterday morning. Other students appeared inmedia sources ranging from the Associated Pressnews wire to local radio stations...
DIED. ERIC WRIGHT, 31, rapper; of complications from AIDS; in Los Angeles. His steely, insistent tenor made "Eazy-E" one of the instantly identifiable elements of N.W.A., the rap group that took the genre to the harsher heights of "gangsta rap," with profane language and violent imagery that kept the music off radio stations and marching out of stores. Following N.W.A.'s dissolution, Wright began a second career as solo artist, producer--and a truly offbeat dabbler in Republican politics...
Many Easterners, particularly white ones, look at Wright as a symptom of an ugly, ultimately passing phase in American culture. In point of fact, Eazy-E was a thoughtful entrepreneur who helped start the careers of Dr. Dre and Ice Cube (although he exchanged angry words at times with both former N.W.A. members...