You have to feel for TiVo, who, after pioneering the concept and inventing the DVR and fighting a rear-guard action against video content providers, who claimed the very act of digitally recording TV and movie content for the purpose of time-shifted and advertisement-cleansed viewing was worse than a Mann Act …
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The new Guardian: what do you think?
It seems to be going upmarket, or at least holding its ground, which can only be a good thing.
Read More »Thoughts on 9/11 About Dead Bodies
I've been thinking for the last day about dead bodies
Read More »Free Speech
...the idea of free speech has to be relieved of its iconic status.
Read More »Do You Mash?
If you don't listen to Bush singing "Imagine", the terrorists have won.
Read More »Needed Katrina Humor, Perspectives
I haven’t looked forward to a television show as much as I looked forward to Jon Stewart’s take on Katrina, which ran last night. And wow, it was perfect. Show excerpts, courtesy of the Daily Kos “Now, for you people who are saying “Well, stop pointing fingers at the president…left-wing…the …
Read More »“Censored news” and real news
Every year Project Censored puts out a list of what it considers the most censored important news stories of the year. And apparently I’m not alone in wondering just how a story can be censored when the size of the media changes literally each time someone else starts a blog. …
Read More »Dilbert censored in local paper
The comic strip Dilbert was censored on September 6, 2005. At least, it was in my local paper.
Read More »Katrina – Sunday/Monday Media Critique
Jack Shafer of Slate and Ann Gerhart of the Washington Post are doing excellent work amid this chaos.
Read More »Meth “Epidemic” Overhyped?
Recently I read the cover story in Newsweek sensationalizing the spread of meth across the country. Publications that should know better have done a terrible job covering the issue, many calling it an “epidemic”. For more on that see Slate’s good piece on the topic of why drug reporting is, …
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