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- From: v140pxgt@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Daniel B Case)
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- Subject: Re: Time-Warner, Channel One and the "Edison Project"
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 23:40:00 GMT
- References: <1993Jan26.183448.10035@cs.ucla.edu> <1993Jan27.124752.564@hsh.com>
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- In article <1993Jan27.124752.564@hsh.com>, paul@hsh.com writes...
-
- [stuff deleted]
- >> Cohen also notes that as a result of the merger, the company now
- >> both owns cable stations and distributors and produces the product
- >> that will get on the air; Time Warner also owns magazines that review
- >> movies and televisions shows that it produces. Cohen cites a Time cover
- >> story on author Scott Turow which ran just as Warner released a movie
- >> based on a Turow novel.
- >
- >So? It's called "cross-marketing," and it's neither illegal nor unethical.
- >One wonders what ideological niche Cohem would slide this Turow fellow into.
- >I never heard of him myself, but I'd bet a buck on it.
- >
-
- Scott Turow? The author of Presumed Innocent and The Burden of Proof, whose
- runaway success started the current vogue for legal thrillers like The Firm?
- Gee, I love the way conservatives are *so* plugged into the cultural mainstream
- As William F. Buckley admitted last year "I have never seen a baseball game, or
- watched a single episode of that show hosted by that young black woman who is
- alternately fat and thin, I forget her name" (and FWIW, Dan Quayle hadn't
- watched a single episode of Murphy Brown-someone on his staff had). No wonder
- the harsh reaction to the "family 'values'" rhetoric at the Republican
- covention put so many of them at a loss-in November.
-
- >[ snip, snip, snip; I don't have all day]
- >
- >If FAIR really did stand for "fairness" and "accuracy," they'd be asking why
- >the media gave Clinton's cabinet nominees such a free ride. Why aren't we
- >told more about Christopher Warren, who lied to Congress? What was the
- >secret deal Ron Brown cut, in order to save his confirmation?
-
- Uh, that's *Warren Christopher*. If one presumes to be a media critic, one
- should evince some sign of being familiar with it and the messages it conveys.
-
- >
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- >
- >Paul Havemann (Internet: paul@hsh.com)
- >
- > * They're not just opinions -- they're caffeine for the brain! *
- > ** (Up to 50 milligrams per cynical observation.) **
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