Tag Archives: Media

Certainly the central topic of our time, and with this group debating the fur is sure to fly. Go Hitch! KCRW TO AIR FESTIVAL OF BOOKS DEBATE: “U.S. and Iraq One Year Later: Right to Get In? Wrong to Get Out?” On Monday, April 26th, from 2 to 4 PM …

Though I still wag my finger in a disapproving manner regarding the NY Times’ policy of charging for access to stories over one week old, I stand up and applaud two new resources they have just made available. The Times now offers over 5,000 movie reviews from its pages, including …

David Fiore has an interesting post about popular culture being our best tool for “conquering” the Middle East. Today the NY Times has a great stroy on what our forces take with them to the far reaches of the globe: American troops arrive for duty in Iraq with a rifle …

FactPack 2004 – data on the advertising and marketing industries from Ad Age – is available online here. Among the info is such interesting fare as the Top 25 U.S. advertisers: (in billions, followed by percent change from last year) 1 General Motors Corp. $3.65 8.5 2 Time Warner 2.92 …

If I were even more sarcastic than I am, I would say something about this being suicide awareness month, between the Kurt Cobain ruminations and now this tribute to Spalding Gray, another damaged soul who couldn’t wait for the end to come of its own accord: KCRW TO BROADCAST A …

Cooke just recently retired from his “Letters From America” show on the BBC after 58 years – hasty he was not: Veteran BBC broadcaster and writer Alistair Cooke has died at his home in New York. ….Leading the tributes, Prime Minister Tony Blair described him as “a remarkable man” and …

Microsoft confirmed that it will offer audio and video of Major League Baseball games via its MSN service, and AOL will offer live audio streams and 20-minute video clips for each game. The Microsoft deal, worth as much as $40 million over two years, according to sources, is one of …

The prosecutor in the Michael Jackson child molestation case may call witnesses from the ’93 case, which ended in a large settlement being paid to the accuser, but no charges against Jackson: The Santa Barbara News-Press, citing sources it did not name, said several witnesses who testified in the 1993 …

Hey, we don’t make stuff up without warning you about it. Joining other famous sociopaths, like Jayson Blair at the NY Times, USA Today has found that former star reporter Jack Kelley made up all kinds of shit: USA Today reported the initial findings of an ongoing investigation in a …

I am becoming a bit less sanguine about the new “zero tolerance” broadcast atmosphere. Yesterday the FCC went pretty nuts with the fines and the condemnations: The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday overruled its staff and declared that an expletive uttered by rock star Bono on NBC last year was …