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Comment:

From Containment to Entertainment: The Rise of the Media-Industrial Complex

From Containment to Entertainment:

Under the Signs of Mickey Mouse and Bruce Willis TODD GITLIN
Brad Pitt's Global Reach ORVILLE SCII ELI
Out of Hollywood SHIMON PERES AND SYDNEY POLIACK
Hollywood Disinformation NAWAZ SHARIF
Celine Dion: Made in Canada SHEILA COPPS
America's Cultural Influence Is Waning FEDERICO MAYOR
"Midnight Express" 20 Years Later: A Turkish Nightmare HALUK SAHIN
Hollywood Postmodernism: The New Imperialism ZEAUDDIN SARDAR
Western Media: The Prism of Immorality BENAZIR BHUTTO

The Rise of the Media-Industrial Complex:

The Media and Political Authority ANDRIES VAN AGT
"Industrialization" of the First Amendment FREIMUT DUVE
The New Journalism: We Are All Paparazzi JUAN LUIS CEBRIAN
Unlike Watergate, This Is National Madness CARL BERNSTEIN
The Media Beast OLIVER STONE
The Industrialization of News MARVIN KAIB

Collage of Comment:

A Coup Against Clinton? ROBERT REICH, MARGARITA PAPANDREOU, WILLIAM BENNETT
World Capitalist Crisis GEORGE SOROS, JACQUES ATTALI, KOFI ANNAN

As the World Turns:

The Pope Who Believes in God ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI
Arrested Change in Malaysia ALVIN TOFFLER

Response:

On [Nuclear] Boom and [Economic] Bust in Asia MIKHAIL GORBACHEV

Just Think...

Moderate Versus Radical Mideast States STANLEY K. SHEINBAUM