Tag Archives: Media

This is a fascinating, discomfiting story: a self-avowed heterosexual Japanese baseball player appeared in a gay porn film while in college because he says he needed the money. He was blackballed by Japanese professional baseball. He was signed by the Indians, did well in the minors this year, and may …

GE’s NBC snags the bride Universal in deal with Vivendi: NBC and Vivendi said they intend to combine the assets into a new company, which would most likely be called NBC Universal, though a final deal has yet to be worked out. The companies expect to complete the last phase …

ABC News’ political blog “The Note” has some provocative thoughts today governing politics and the media over the next six weeks or so: Since there’s that whole Labor-Day-kick-off thing, and it’s the beginning of a very big month, let’s clear the air with a very big a-hem of reality: the …

For all of the flailing, flagellating and flapping of wings in the blogosphere, two-thirds of voters – including two-thirds of Democrats – were unable to name ANY of the Democratic candidates for president, according to a CBS News poll released yesterday. This seems about exactly in line with what I …

Corey Dietz has uncovered a double secret probation scheme by the RIAA to go after illegal secondary users of car radio: Lawyers for the RIAA maintain that the radio in each car was never meant to be listened to by anyone else except the original owner of the vehicle. Therefore, …

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Martin Luther King Jr. and so many other great orators and civil rights leader spoke of the desire for true equality. I have been listening to NPR’s Tavis Smiley show the past few days as …

Our friends at the RIAA seem hell-bent on ramming their worldview down every customer, former customer, or potential customer’s throat. I see this as a problem from a marketing, customer service and legal standpoint since their methods infringe upon the privacy and civil liberties of everyone who uses the Internet, …

We dig TechTV, with all kinds of useful, entertaining and strange information on matters tech (especially since they picked us as a favorite blog – thanks Sarah!) Now it’s for sale: Paul Allen, the entrepreneur and co-founder of software maker Microsoft Corp. is looking to sell his technology-related cable channel …

Fox News, trounced and ridiculed in court and in the blogosphere (see Ernest Svenson’s analysis here), has dropped its lawsuit against Al Franken: The lawsuit had sought unspecified damages from Franken and Penguin Group, publisher of “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at …

Nine years after the “Trial of the Century,” O.J. Simpson talks to Playboy magazine: “I didn’t commit the crime. That is why I got off,” he said. “I feel in my heart that I got off because I was innocent. But I don’t know if I could have proven my …