He was convicted on circumstantial evidence and his lawyers tried to get DNA testing done before his execution that wasn't available at the time of his trial. He was executed in 1996 despite protests by Amnesty International.
NPR did a story on the case. You can listen in real audio.
posted by steve rhodes on 7/27/2000 11:34:00 PM |
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This week, Newsweek reported in Creating Static for AOL that Disney had produced a video attacking the AOL Time-Warner merger to show to the FCC and Congress.
Inside.com has a follow-up, Dirty Movie: Disney Trots Out a Video in Its War Against the AOL Deal and you can watch the nearly 12 minute video in real video.
The video is really bad (Disney should have watched some Paper Tiger TV tapes for examples of how to make fun, compelling videos attacking concentration of media ownership).
The video makes a good point, those who produce the content shouldn't control distribution . But it is hypocritical since Disney also owns plenty of distribution.
At the end, the video points out three times the government stepped in in similar cases: Microsoft, stopping studios from owning theaters and stopping tv networks from owning shows on their network.
It doesn't mention that the FCC has eliminated that last one and now most programs on ABC are now produced by Disney or that the same guy now heads ABC the network and ABC the tv production studio.
And Disney only seems to care that it has access. They aren't
lobbying for community media centers, so local non-profits,
artists and others can create broadband content which might
be more compelling than the enhanced tv version of that show
with Regis.
posted by steve rhodes on 7/26/2000 12:58:10 PM |
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Stephen King has released the first part of The Plant through his Philtrum Press. You can download it from his site and pay $1 through Amazon. It is about a 20 page PDF file, actually short enough to almost be comfortable reading on a computer screen (though you can print it out). It is a funny story about the publishing industry focusing on a slush pile submission to a genre paperback publisher (which originally was published in 1982 as a small book King sent to friends). The second installment will be published August 21st . If enough people have paid, the third will go up in September and he will post more until it is finished. It is worth the $1 though I wish he would post one installment a week rather than one a month. I want to know what happens next.
There is more on the impact King's experiment is having on the publishing industry in King Bucks Publisher and Stephen King Sows Dread in Publishers With His Latest E-Tale.
King also reviewed the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in Sunday's New York Times.
You can also listen to Jim Dale talk about his audio versions of the Harry Potter books
and download an excerpt from it on MPlit.com.
posted by steve rhodes on 7/24/2000 3:03:07 AM |
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