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For 25 years commercial TV has chased one demographic only – young adults, ignoring children and seniors (who actually had more spending power). Chasing the young adult viewer brought us office and coffee shop banter and crude jokes about penises. But young adults, it seems, have checked out and are watching Netflix, while ABC, CBS, …
It seems that the 30 Greenpeace activists locked up for illegally boarding an oil platform will shortly be released. Putin was threatening to jail them for an outrageous 15 years, but yesterday announced he had backtracked on that. The rig they were targeting will be the first to start commercial offshore oil drilling in the …
Except for two or three music schools in America (San Francisco Conservatory, and maybe Curtis and Juilliard) all music schools in America insist on PhDs before they will offer teachers tenure. You can be a creative musical genius, but unless you have spent four years studying what put Beethoven did on July 20th, 1808, and …
During a recent visit to Florida a friend mentioned that baby sealions are now being brought to Florida from California to balance balls on their noses and amuse little children. What’s that about? I asked. It turns out that, owing to the rapidly warming ocean, sealions have little to eat and have to travel long …
The calm way the British react to turbulent events never ceases to “amaze”. Take their attitude to nuclear power. After the meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima plant two years ago, most Europeans are decidedly jumpy about it; we Germans abolished it overnight. But when David Cameron’s government announced plans to build a new reactor there was …
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