... ARE SPOKEN ON PUBLIC TELEVISION? Das Erste, the main public television Dutch Public Broadcasting (NPO) channel, is broadcast in German. channels broadcast primarily Its website encourages Arabic...

... was beamed on giant television screens to the assembled thousands. In addition to their daughter’s hand in marriage, the bride’s family also bestowed on her husband a new Bell 429 helicopter, which sells for upwards of $5 million. The full price tag for the nuptials was estimated variously at between $22...

... to as the Liberator for having led the independence movement in Venezuela and four other South American nations. His story has evolved throughout the years into a national cult. In February 2010, in a live broadcast of his weekly TV and radio show, Chávez ordered the expropriation of several buildings around...

... reflection. How do we make order out of all this? Slow it to a pace that works for you. My wife and I rarely watch television “live” in real-time. We record those shows we enjoy, then watch them at our leisure (and oh yes, we spin through most commercials, though those that capture our attention, we slow...

..., even—that Clinton, a candidate supported by Wall Street, political elites, and the media, would defeat Donald Trump, a reality-TV star. When the final results came in, the triumph of an indecent, semifascist monster over a former secretary of state produced a vast and prolonged trauma. Prepared...

..., journalist Dave Cullen, author of Columbine , called for the media to cut back on coverage of mass shootings. “These people have figured out there’s really two ways to get on television [and] be the big story of the week,” he told CNN. “One of them is body count. The other is, call it creativity—to do...

... election since the dissolution of Yugoslavia in 2003 and the creation of the Republic of Serbia. Cast as a “TV duel” in local media outlets, the feverishly plotted, yet surprisingly plodding, display pits the incumbent and head of the Serbian Democratic Party against the leader of the nationalist Serbian...

... to be a Nigerian,” they write. “I love u so much Queen Genevieve. U are the pride of Africa, a Super Shining Star.” Nnaji was born on May 3, 1979, and began acting at the age of eight on the Nigerian Television Authority soap opera Ripples . The show ended in 1993, when its creator, Zeb Ejiro, joined...

... actions rying out his stated intention of clamping as a threat to democracy, and Putin has re­ down on the country’s endemic disorder taliated by pressuring the oligarch to sell his by instituting what he has often—and omi­ share in the state’s ORT television. nously—called a “dictatorship...

... television commercials now stress the “typically Dutch” qualities of products. A Dutch offshoot of the British cellular provider Vodafone promises a simple and honest “Dutch way” of dealing with customers. A new game show called I Love Holland attracts millions of viewers every week, even though it offers...

..., since they are voracious pied, and the other is the one that may ac­ consumers of news from many sources, not tually be building nuclear weapons. just television. But still, could one watch But assuming that Alan Jackson really C N N regularly and not know the difference did watch C...

... political parties; 28 currently have seats in Congress. Campaigns follow very strict rules: Political ads can’t be privately bought, and the state allocates primetime TV slots to each party according to the number of seats they hold in Congress. That same logic is applied to the distribution of public money...

... supporters waving Saudi flags in Tahrir Square circulated on TV and social media, adding to the brewing anger. On April 15, protesters took to the streets. Security allowed one demonstration near the Journalists’ Syndicate, the traditional protest spot since before Egypt’s 2011 uprising, but cracked down...

..., games are for children. Eight men sprinting in a straight line are taking part in a frivolous and useless activity. Surely the hundreds of millions watching on television or, increasingly, computers, tablets, and smart phones have something better to do. Yet the men’s 100 meters offers a powerful...

... speeches to their own flocks in their own languages, speaking in terms that they would hesitate to use before a wider audience, KTN sometimes broadcasts such clips on national television, subtitled in Swahili or English. The network has chosen to diversify the audience as a way of discouraging...

... h a t w e a po n s shall w e use station, Radio Télévision Libre des Mille TO CONQUER THE INYENZI ONCE AND FOR Collines (r tlm ), whose anti-Tutsi vitriol was ALL?? “Inyenzi," or cockroach, was a term more explicit than that of Kangura. R tlm coined in the 1960s by some of Rwanda’s...

...Karl E. Meyer Copyright © 2001 World Policy Institute 2001 C *D A If Not Perfect, at Least Excellent Cynics assert that Americans are allergic to history, a subject so useless that the word itself is almost an epithet (as in, “You’re history Advertisers and television...

... media. It forces people to behave better. we’re all naked now in the light of this new social media. it forces people to behave better . with mobile technologies, everybody walking in the street is a radio station and a tv station and a studio . WPJ: Many of these boundaries were...

... from Russian television and Shovruk Ruzimuradov, of the Human newspapers”— which offer scant information Rights Society of Uzbekistan, met a similar about the region. fate. He was apparently tortured to death af­ ter his arrest last summer in southwestern September 11 Politics...