Well, it doesn’t rank up there in news value with the Fall of Baghdad, but I am still in shock that America – or at least the portion who vote for the show – voted Ricky Smith off the show Tuesday night. Were they watching the same Ricky Smith, whose …

A lot of really terrific things happened yesterday in and around Iraq, but in the long run THIS may be the most important of all: Arabs responded Thursday to the sudden collapse of Saddam Hussein’s government with anger, shock and even disbelief. One newspaper refused to acknowledge that Baghdad had …

I haven’t swan dived into the Great Blogging Ethics Debate, as Cynthia Webb calls it in the Washington Post, because it seems pretty obvious to me: Sean-Paul Kelley is a liar, a plagiarist, and an embarrassment to the blogging community. In case you have been watching a war or something, …

From Disney to your home digitally – what middle men? Walt Disney plans to start live tests this year on a digital home video distribution system which could bypass conventional rental services, undermine movie piracy, and deliver new profit streams directly to the group’s bottom line. The announcement, from Michael …

In this case, everything: as Saddam Hussein’s regime crumbles, the Iraqi president’s images are falling, too. The instigators are twofold: U.S. military forces and, at times, Iraqis themselves. Sometimes they do it together. “Every time we tear down a picture of Saddam, they cheer,” said Cpt. Peter McAleer, commander of …

Former Major League pitcher and author of Ball Four, Jim Bouton, is going to self-publish his next book according to PW NewsLine: the author, who has a reputation as something of a loose-canon, is uncorking a high hard one at venerable Public Affairs publisher Peter Osnos, with whom Bouton had …

SIX, a documentary written by Knoxville forensic psychologist Dr. Helen Smith, washes over the viewer with the power of shaped fiction as it traces, via interviews and court footage, the inexorable, “perfect storm” series of baby steps that led straight down a rural Tennessee road to the 1997 murder of …

David Ignatius discusses the mixed feelings toward the war of a friend in Saudi Arabia: Change is coming in the Arab world, inexorably. It’s visible in the wide-open coverage of the war by Arab television stations, in the increasingly free debate in once-closed societies such as Saudi Arabia and in …

Yes, it’s a big week for the Crowe: his band with the odd, self-deprecating name, 30 Odd Foot of Grunts, released their new album, Other Ways of Speaking on Artemis yesterday. Other Ways of Speaking was recorded all over the world – from Austin, TX to Sydney, Australia to Baja, …

TiVO as content hub: The San Jose, Calif., company on Tuesday made available a new software upgrade that will allow its TiVo Series2 digital video recorders to tap content stored on a home PC. ….the Home Media Option software will let the TiVo boxes access and distribute content such as …