Tag Archives: Media

I’m really sad to hear about original MTV VJ J.J. Jackson dying. I can’t believe J.J. Jackson was 62! That means he was almost 40 when he was a VJ. So anyway, I’m sad – what a voice that guy had: Jackson, a longtime radio station disc jockey, died of …

The U.S. Census Bureau offers a tribute to the 50th anniversary of color TV: It was described as “the wonderful world of color” in the title of an early television program. On March 25, 1954, the Radio Corporation of America began to manufacture color television sets at its Bloomington, Ind., …

This is preposterous: to the best of my knowledge, no Iraqi has EVER wished death upon Jews, lusted after Japanese schoolgirls, shunned regular bathing, or been intimate with a quadruped. What were they thinking? an official for the Clear Channel Communications station, KFI-AM, said she would read an apology on …

Toronto Star Internet columnist Peter Howell is coming a bit late to the blog game, but late is way better than never: I was skeptical about Weblogs – “blogs” for short – when I first heard about them, and why I’ve never really followed them that closely. Blogs looked like …

As I was driving my mother-in-law to the airport this afternoon we were having our usual low-intensity disagreements about politics, war, the media, whether or not Diane Rehm and her voice like a 110-year-old tracheotomy victim should remain on the air, and we did agree that while there is a …

You know that Lisa Marie Presley got a very generous binding offer to shut the hell up about her life with Michael Jackson when the couple divorced. In an Australian TV interview she hints but doesn’t doesn’t reveal anything in particular about their life together: Presley said she felt powerless …

Only the terrorists’. As Spain agonizes over the Madrid terrorist train bombings of last week that left 200 dead and over 1,500 wounded, today’s election there is directly tied into public conception of who is responsible for the attacks. Is it the indiginous Basque-seaparatist ETA or is it an affiliate …

It would appear that night vision sex tapes and intense vacuity are no roadblock to stardom, at least if you’re Paris Hilton: Star magazine broke the report that the blonde is about to step into the strappy mules of former Guess? babes, including Claudia Schiffer, Anna Nicole Smith and Bridget …

Our Sydney Smith has turned away from Howard Stern with these pithy words: I listened to last Friday’s rant, when he projected – wrongly – that his show would be over by the end of this week. I listened to him blame – wrongly – Republicans and Christians for his …

Dan Neil has a penetrating view of the divergent image and customer base for the venerable symbol of automotive class. The company is happy to make the sales but takes no responsibility for the “playa” image: As Cadillac heads down the road, what kind of music is on the stereo? …