The Network's Numbers
Closed mid-September 2000 · On stands late September 2000
The Front
The Business of the Summer's Biggest Hit
A business-desk paragraph citing Survivor's Borneo finale ratings inside a piece on network ad economics, without treating the show as a cultural event in its own right
The Subscription Proof
A business-page item on subscription models proving out the coming internet economy, citing a downloaded-woman ratings record without describing what the site sold
The Dorm Room's Bandwidth Problem
College IT departments nationwide throttling network traffic against a single piece of file-sharing software, covered as a straight administrative skirmish rather than a piracy morality tale
The Foreign File
The Flame at Homebush Bay
The Summer Olympics open, a stringer's note on the host city's own accounting of the Games' cost
The Back
Books: A season's crop of media-business memoirs, reviewed together · Art: null · Film: A survey of the late-summer specialty-house counterprogramming against the network's reality juggernaut