In Hollywood, a dispute between directors and screenwriters about who gets to take credit for some films. NPR Morning Edition [Real Audio clip]
Tag: 11.02.99
TV NEWS GETS A “D”
Enterprise reporting declining on TV – nine of ten stories originate off the police scanner or from planned events, says the Project for Journalistic Excellence. Los Angeles Times
WHITE-OUT
French TV reflects “the total failure of racial integration in France.” Los Angeles Times
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