Extractions: PROGRAMMING: Millions Watch Disaster Coverage FCC Launches Ownership Cap Review On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission launched its review of horizontal and vertical limits placed on cable companies. The action by the commission follows a decision handed down in March by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., that threw out limits placed on the number of subscribers nationwide that can be served by cable operators. Previously, FCC rules limited a cable operator from serving no more than 30 percent of multichannel subscribers nationwide. The FCC's rules also prohibited a cable operator from carrying its affiliated programming on more than 40 percent of its channels, for systems with a channel capacity of up to 75 channels. For systems with a capacity of more than 75 channels, 45 channels were to be reserved for non-affiliated programming. The FCC action doesn't propose any specific numerical caps on the number of multichannel subscribers that can be served, but rather suggests a number of regulatory approaches and "solicits empirical evidence and theoretical justification supporting or contradicting each of the suggested approaches."
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Extractions: Thomas Deichmann In a short introduction, Thomas set out the heart of the story. The pictures are misleading; Penny Marshall and Ian Williams never called Trnopolje a "concentration camp", but pictures tell their own story, so they were interpreted as a "Nazi-style camp"; None of the journalists involved corrected that false impression. Some journalists are very excited about who Thomas is. He has written articles in 25-30 papers throughout Europe. He was an "expert witness" to the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, called by Dusko Tadic's defence team. For the last few years he has specialised on the wars in Yugoslavia. He has no political or personal links to any Serb institution, he has never taken sides in the wars in Yugoslavia and is not "pro-Serb". He stands for the idea of professional standards of journalism - that journalists should not manipulate the facts. At Trnopolje camp, people weren't happy and they wanted food. No-one would want to be there if they could have been somewhere else outside the war zone. There is no such thing as a "good" camp. Trnopolje was not a nice place.
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Extractions: Chapter 7: The Media and American Politics Key Terms high-tech politics mass media media events ... Chapter 7 Essay Questions I. The Mass Media Today A. The American political system has entered a new period of high-tech politics in which the behavior of citizens and policy makers, as well as the political agenda itself, is increasingly shaped by technology. B. The mass media are a key part of that technology. Television, radio, newspapers, magazines, on-line services, and other means of popular communication are called the mass media or "the press," because they reach out and profoundly influence not only the elites but the masses. Nonetheless, entertainment programming represents the economic heart of the television industry. C. Modern political success depends upon control of the mass media. 1. Candidates have learned that one way to guide the media's focus is to limit what they report to carefully scripted events a strategy that both Bush and Clinton used effectively in 1992. These events are known as media events , that is, an event that is staged primarily for the purpose of being covered.
Extractions: Politics: Money Matters: Mary Lynn F. Jones on why not to celebrate Edwards' fundraising prowess yet. Back Page: Iraq captures the headlines, but events in Serbia are unfolding rapidly. Russ Baker reports from Belgrade. Freedom to Fail: Drake Bennett on the false flexibility of the president's welfare plan. Unhealthy Choice: Jim Grossfeld on Bill Frist's affirmative-action blindspot. Deceptively Dangerous: Robert Kuttner explains five ways Bush has fooled America. Numbers Game? Scalia insists Bollinger is all about quotas. But it's really about merit. Drake Bennett reports from the Supreme Court. Breaking Kristol: Michael Tomasky on the propaganda and lies of The Weekly Standard 's editor. Still Wrong: James K. Galbraith on why liberals should keep opposing the war. Presidential Quarantine: Jeremy Mayer on why Bush can't leave America and why that matters. Send a letter to the editor Magic Wanda: Noy Thrupkaew wonders whether FOX will let a talented comedian cast her spell. Free Market Furies: Does exporting capitalism breed ethnic hatred and instability? Sasha Polakow-Suransky on Amy Chua's
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Extractions: By Abraham D. Sofaer and Paul R. Williams (Go to Print Friendly Version) n november 13, 2001, Criminals v . enemies he current debate , when al Qaeda struck American targets, including the World Trade Center (in fbi President Bush put all that behind him after the attacks of September Taking his cue from this major shift in policy, Attorney General John Ashcroft, along with fbi Director Robert S. Mueller III, issued instructions to their personnel to implement a corresponding shift in focus, away from the investigation of terrorism as crimes and the preparation of criminal cases to the overriding objective of preventing terrorist attacks. ( cia to men. A successful military engagement was certain to result in the capture and potential trial of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of individuals. The military commission was a mechanism far more suitable to meet this need than the full-blown trials used to prosecute conventional crimes in the federal courts. Unlike the executive branch departments, the judicial system cannot rapidly retool or evolve to accommodate the new needs of terror war. The American domestic criminal system was designed primarily to protect civil liberties while effectively prosecuting those responsible for murder and other domestic crimes. The system was never intended or designed to perform the judicial roles related to terror war or for that matter to prevent fundamentalist terrorism. The creation of military commissions is thus an effort by the Bush administration to provide a method for trying non-citizen terrorists that corresponds to the shift from fighting terrorism with conventional law enforcement to serious foreign military engagement.
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Extractions: B.C.'s forest sector, long the major economic driver in the province is in a state of economic chaos. Whole towns face financial crisis. And in the middle of this, the biggest forest company in the province says it will phase out clearcutting and the logging of old growth forest. Word of these massive changes in forest policy rocked the already shaky forest sector and questions abound. What does this mean for other companies? Will less logging in old growth mean we could be forced to cut second growth too soon? In other words, is this a silvicultural decision or is it based on other factors entirely? 2. UPDATE ON WATERSHED RESTORATION - 99
Extractions: Restoration of damaged watersheds is expensive and complex. After several years of project work, the people of the Watershed Restoration Program (of Forest Renewal BC) are ready to report on the environmental and cost benefits of this controversial program. Year 15 1998 1. WATERSHED RESTORATION NORTH. WestLand looks at watershed restoration challenges of the BC interior and reports on a new demonstration site for testing and teaching watershed restoration techniques in the North. 2. WATERSHED RESTORATION SOUTH. This program looks at four different watershed restoration projects in the southern interior of BC. Year 14 1997 1. THE MYSIS CRISIS
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