Tag Archives: Media

Contrary to reports last week, Courtney Love’s mother Linda Carroll is denying that she is Marlon Brando’s daughter and that Courtney is Brando’s granddaughter: Linda Carroll, 59, became the focus of attention last week when a story surfaced in a London newspaper that Brando was Love’s grandfather by virtue of …

A rather self-congratulatory update on the Dixie Chicks from the UK’s Guardian: Ever since Natalie Maines, the Dixie Chicks’ lead singer, told a London audience they were “ashamed that the president of the United States of America is from Texas”, the group has found itself in the eye of a …

This is amusing – I go to the front page of Amazon and find Anna Kournikova in her new Shock Absorber sports bra with – Molded, lined cups with an inner support sling – Shaped, padded comfort straps – Adjustable crossover or straight strap-fastening options – High-tech CoolMax® fabric because …

Though I do not see her as the anti-Christ that many bloggers do, Maureen Dowd is largely a glib, fatuous, fantasy-liberal boob. In a rare case of demonstrable sentience, however, Dowd has gone 1-for-2 in her latest columns. On the 13th she exhibited an actual sense of how blogs work …

The Specious Report strikes again with a debate between California gubernatorial candidates Arnold Schwarnenegger and Sunset Strip scenester Angelyne: It has been theorized that someone could win this election with as little as 12% of the vote. Will your campaign avoid any serious discussion of the issues as long as …

We spent most of our vacation driving to and fro in the “high country” of North Carolina from our base in Boone: cruising the beautiful but treacherous Blue Ridge Parkway (home of fog thick enough to eat for dinner), rolling on down to Asheville (where resides the 8,000 acre Biltmore …

Michael Graham invites you to bash Bush with all your might today at 5pm (eastern): As a member of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy and (horrors!) an employee of Clear Channel Radio, I am regularly confronted with the argument that we conservatives/corporate lackeys of the Bush Administration are squelching debate, supressing …

While FCC chairman Powell is the clear goat in the media regulation wars, misreading congress AND the public in his arrogant push to deregulation, this article by Jube Shiver in the L.A. Times says Federal Communications Commissioner Michael J. Copps is one of the heroes: Short on funds, the Democrat …

Michael K. Powell, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, proves in this editorial in the NY Times that he just doesn’t have a clue. He is arguing about broadcast competing with cable when it is the overall consolidation of the media into the hands of a few omnipowerful corporations, and …

The way this is working is the RIAA – as a very well funded institution with lawyers out the ass – has about zero per unit cost to subpoena all of these file sharers, while for the targets, the cost in real and potential cost in money, time and emotional …