Tag Archives: Media

Eddie Stubbs – now that’s a gol dern country music name – plays classic country from the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s on the radio: Country music has its share of wild characters, but old-fashioned, clean-cut, suit-and-tie-wearing Eddie Stubbs isn’t one of them. He abstains from bad habits (“dadgummit!” is as …

Clear Channel under Department of Justice Investigation: Department of Justice antitrust chief Hewitt Pate told a House Judiciary Committee yesterday that DOJ attorneys have conducted “a number of interviews” as part of probes into Clear Channel and has “undertaken significant efforts to find additional evidence.” Pate said that the Clear …

This is an amazing sea change reflecting a desire for interactivity and active control above passive reception of one-way communication: The Internet has surpassed television in overall time usage to become the primary medium of choice among teens and young adults. That was one finding from a research study commissioned …

Dan Gillmor on the RespectCopyrights.org campaign: a campaign (also including TV commercials and in-theater pitches) aimed at convincing us all of a single point — that it’s wrong to infringe on copyrights. Well, of course it is, especially when the purpose is to get something of value for nothing or …

A scenario such as the below would resolve the question of whether or not to show images of the blowed-up Hussein brothers for the purpose of assuring the doubt-prone Iraqi and Arab masses of their demise. But alas, in the real world, I fear only the gory details will do …

This is a strange story: the Chicago police issued a community alert describing a man suspected in a series of sexual assaults as looking like Ice Cube. I guess if he does he does, but then a local TV station relayed the alert over the air and played an Ice …

FCC chairman Michael Powell defends the controvertial media ownership ruling even as the House prepared to block it: “We are confident in our decision” FCC Chairman Michael Powell said in a written statement. “We created enforceable rules that reflect the realities of today’s media marketplace. The rules will benefit Americans …

Useful summary of the FCC-Capitol Hill conflagration over media ownership rule changes by Eric Boehlert in Salon: Following the Federal Communications Commission’s controversial decision on June 2 to ease media ownership limits, supporters in Congress were so sure they had momentum on their side that Rep. Billy Tauzin, R-La., announced …

We recently mentioned software that finds, chops and recombines parts of spoken word into odd pastiches. Now a Northeast Ohio contrarian has assembled a collection of TV and radio ads “remixed” to subvert their original message: The commercial’s banjo melody is instantly familiar, but the words are different. “Armour hot …

Forbes compares the media legends and finds the Times still ahead in key categories, but the Post had a good year and the Times suffered through its worst in some time, maybe ever: Then came The New York Times’ annus horribilis. The Jayson Blair scandal germinated quietly enough, with the …