ABSTRACT
The schlocky jenny Jones Show, the first show on which a guest who was set up to be humiliated later was charged with murdering his humiliator, is a Time Warner product. In the movies the all-time low for cynicism and historical lies and for graphic, wholesale serial killing presented as fun were both produced by Warner. After the Ice-T fiasco, Warner pulled in its horns a bit and turned down a few recordings, including one about a killer stalking President Bush. But those feeble PR-oriented efforts were in areas where the pressure was coming from: police and public officials. The company did nothing about the woman-hating, racism, and all-round mayhem. Time Inc. was a respectable and socially responsible company only seven or eight years ago. Along the way, the company has compromised its own magazines, which are hardly in a position to report honestly on what Warner is doing to the culture.
