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- Apr. 22, 1991: From The Publisher
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Apr. 22, 1991 Nancy Reagan:Is She THAT Bad?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 26
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- <p> Journalism has tended to redefine itself in time of war. Radio
- covered World War II with unprecedented immediacy; television
- did the same in Vietnam a generation later. Now, in a less
- dramatic but still significant way, computer technology is
- getting into the act, and I'm proud to say that TIME is heavily
- involved. This week we, together with our corporate cousins at
- Warner New Media in Los Angeles, are releasing a history of the
- Persian Gulf war that combines text, images and audio accounts
- of the conflict--on a tiny 5-in. disc.
- </p>
- <p> The technology is called CD-ROM, for compact-disc
- read-only memory, and the disc can be "played," with the help
- of an attachment costing $400 to $900, on most personal
- computers. The TIME newsdisc, titled Desert Storm--The War in
- the Persian Gulf, will include TIME stories and charts, scores
- of unpublished photographs, sound recorded from radio and TV,
- and files from our correspondents in the field. Users can call
- up different pieces of information at the click of a mouse. Says
- executive editor Dick Duncan: "It gives the reader-viewer a
- first raw cut of history."
- </p>
- <p> Duncan and Warner New Media president Stan Cornyn
- initially conceived of putting the war on CD-ROM on Jan. 17, and
- within 24 hours Warner producer Linda Rich was in New York,
- collecting material and introducing our staff to the world of
- multimedia digital publishing. Working with TIME director of
- development David McGowan and researcher Nina Barrengos, she
- drew up a plan for the disc, began conversion of files and war
- photos to computer format and even tapped deputy chief of
- correspondents Barrett Seaman's telephone line to the gulf. In
- one conversation between Seaman and correspondent Scott MacLeod,
- the reporter explains that he hopes to drive into bomb-ravaged
- Baghdad--where CNN's Peter Arnett has promised him the use of
- his telephone line. But in exchange for phone privileges, Arnett
- wants 25 gal. of gasoline. The two men calmly discuss the wisdom
- of carrying a carload of explosive fuel into the heart of a
- virtual fire storm. "It certainly gives you a sense of the
- danger involved," says McGowan.
- </p>
- <p> The disc is available in computer stores for $39.99.
- </p>
- <p>-- Robert L. Miller
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