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Triple bill of festive dramas. 'The Christmas Shoes' (2002) revolves around the intertwining of two stories. In the first, Rob Lowe plays Robert Layton, a workaholic lawyer who is drifting away from his wife, Kate (Maria del Mar), and his family. In the second, a little boy, Nathan (Max Morrow), tries to raise the cash to buy a pair of red shoes for his mother, who is dying from a congenital heart defect. Robert's path seems set to cross with Nathan's; will the two have lessons to teach each other about life? 'A Christmas Romance' (1994) stars Olivia Newton-John as Julia Stonecypher, a woman who has just lost her husband. A bleak Christmas appears in store for her and her two daughters when ...
The media are in crisis. Confronted by growing competition and sagging advertising revenue, news operations in print, on radio and TV, and even online are struggling to reinvent themselves. Many have gone under. For too many others, the answer has been to lay off reporters, join conglomerates, and lean more heavily on generic content. The result: in a world awash with information, news organizations provide citizens with less and less in-depth reporting and a narrowing range of viewpoints. If democracy requires an informed citizenry, this trend spells trouble. Julia Cagé explains the economics and history of the media crisis in Europe and America, and she presents a bold solution. The answe...