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Happy birthday Mickey – cultural icons aren’t created every day: Mickey Mouse arrived on the world’s cultural stage 75 years ago Tuesday as a scrawny but buoyant black-and-white product of the Jazz Age. He was a symbol of American pluck in his screen debut, “Steamboat Willie,” on Nov. 18, 1928. …

A very balanced and sensible look in starkly capitalist Forbes at the current state of copyright in the digital era: EVERYONE is going to have to compromise – what a shock: File sharing has gotten a black eye from illegal downloads of copyrighted music and movies, but the technology behind …

Remember when being THE NUMBER ONE SONG IN THE COUNTRY meant something? Sean Ross does: Listen to N/T WABC New York on holiday weekends, when it pulls out the PAMS jingles and recreates its top 40 heyday of the ’60s and ’70s for a few hours, and you’ll hear a …

Larry Flynt says he bought nude photos of Jessica Lynch for Hustler, but won’t use them because he’s a nice guy: Flynt told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he bought the photos last month from the men who purportedly participated in the amateur shoot with the Army supply clerk. …

Stroke mags becoming obsolete: After 35 years in the business of titillating and offending, pornographer Al Goldstein says his magazine can’t compete anymore. The audience is just as large, he says, but the Internet has transformed the product and its delivery. Just over a month ago, Goldstein stopped publishing Screw …

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Do I take great pleasure at the misfortune of others? When the others in question make up the rapacious filth that is Clear Channel Communications, Inc., I do. Why? They have done all they can to turn radio into NOTHING but a commercial-delivery system. They have created monolithic blandness out …

Creem to crush trees once again: When Creem relaunches on newsstands next year, the rock magazine hopes to bring back the sarcastic wit and intelligent, observant voice that Creem CEO/publisher Robert Matheu says has been lost in much of today’s national consumer music magazines. In an exclusive interview with Billboard.com, …

We have had much comment already on the cancellation of the CBS TV movie about the Reagans. Now CBS president and CEO Les Moonves (add a “t” and you have smart spacewear for fall) is taking his “reagard” a step further: Les Moonves Donates Testicles to Reagan Presidential Library Commemorating …

Like it or not, the last five years have seen an explosion of media aimed at infants and very young children. In the guise of education, parents are utilizing the electronic babysitter – TV, video, computer – from birth on. Is this good, bad or indifferent? I’d say the best …