French TV reflects “the total failure of racial integration in France.” Los Angeles Times
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IS THERE STILL A PLACE for PBS –
– in the vast cable spectrum?
Philadelphia Inquirer
AND: SELLING ITSELF SHORT.Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel 11/2/99
ALSO: REMEMBER THE GOOD THINGS Detroit News 11/2/99
PREVIOUSLY: REVERED AND REVILED: PBS is 30 years old and from right and left everybody dumps on it. It will be a quiet anniversary. Dallas Morning News 10/31/99
AND: PBS AT 30: Public broadcaster is at a crossroads – what’s the mission in a 500-channel world. (AP) MSNBC 10/25/99
NO DRIVE-BY SHOOTINGS
The Harlem elementary school depicted in the Meryl Streep film “Music of the Heart” protests film’s portrayal of the school neighborhood in the film. CBC
HONG KONG DISNEYLAND
A plan to build a $3 billion theme park in the former British colony in bid to boost flagging tourist industry. BBC
JUDGE TO GIULIANI: Hands off the Brooklyn Museum
“There is no federal constitutional issue more grave than the effort by government officials to censor works of expression and to threaten the vitality of a major cultural institution as punishment for failing to abide by governmental demands for orthodoxy.” Giuliani calls decision “knee-jerk.” New York Times
AND: Toronto Globe and Mail story, Washington Post story 11/2/99
PUBLISHERS POURING MONEY
– into e-startups. – Publisher’s Weekly
VALUE OF DISCREDITED BUSH BIO soars on internet auction sites –
– as publisher withdraws book. “Beanie Babies in hardback,” one Borders manager calls it. – Baltimore Sun
AND: Editor at St. Martin’s Press who quit after Bush debacle is hired for Talk Magazine. Publisher’s Weekly 11/2/99
WHEN POP ISN’T SO POPULAR
FULL HOUSE/MONEY IN THE BANK
Milwaukee Symphony playing a happy tune. – Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
PROTECTING OUR OWN
As the World Trade Organization begins meeting in Seattle, France vows to protect its movie industry from Hollywood incursion. French directors fear US will use WTO to undermine French government support for homegrown films in a drive to increase Hollywood’s dominant market share in France. Toronto Globe and Mail