Tag Archives: Media

Last week we reported on the accumulating signs of imminent war with Iraq. They keep piling up, so much so that Slate has said the chance of war is 99%. Another indication is that the news media are speaking as though was were a certainty, although they always add a …

Protests worldwide, celebrities gesticulating and pontificating, poets versifying, heated debate everywhere, threats of vetoes: Slate says it’s all moot, with chance of American-led invasion of Iraq at 99%. Turkey will reverse itself and allow staging of troops, Iraqi mouthpiece turns upon Kuwait with language ususally reserved for Israel: “Shut up …

Just another typical media day in the life of the weirdest man in America: Michael Jackson paid a witch doctor to place a curse on DreamWorks partners David Geffen and Steven Spielberg, and wears a prosthetic tip on his nose, claims an article in Vanity Fair magazine. Titled “Losing His …

Spinning off from Spin and Vibe, a new music mag aimed at post-30s with the jaunty title of Good Music: The first two issues of a new music magazine, tentatively called Good Music, are set to appear late this year under a deal, to be announced this week, between Good …

Our own Jeff Jarvis, probably the single blogger with the most real-world media experience, has thoughts on the Ragng Cow/Dr. Pepper affair (as notably related by Glenn Reynolds here). Jeff: Now you could argue that this nitwitted idea has actually paid off — if you’re a member of the say-anything-just-spell-the-URL-right …

Music video channel encouraging real interactivity between TV screen, computer, and viewers: For most music fans, deciding whether to buy Mariah Carey or Ashanti is a matter of musical taste. But for fans of “IMX,” the “interactive music exchange” on the digital cable channel MuchMusic USA, choosing between Ms. Carey …

Here’s the deal: for any kind of true morality to exist we need to recognize the indivisible and unique sacredness of every human life, not every life period, every HUMAN life. This is what drives me insane about animal rights zealots – they don’t see humans as unique, and this …

Michael Moore has thrown down the gauntlet to the media: Filmmaker Michael Moore says journalists are missing the real story on Iraq. Journalists should look into a possible deal between the Bush administration and Russia to carve up Iraq’s oil fields after ousting Saddam Hussein, he said. “People in the …

I have never been able to get my head around architecture: sure I like nice buildings and I am fairly interested in interior design, but the actual work of summoning buildings forth from the mind has never been something I have much understood. So that’s my excuse why I have …

Is CMJ rigging the charts? Being music director at KALX is a coveted and important job. Ian Hetzner shares that job with Paul Koehler. Among their duties is to compile a weekly list of the station’s top thirty albums and send it to hundreds of other stations, record labels, music …