Tag Archives: Media

Maureen Orth, who is clearly not a fan of Michael Jackson, has a new neutron bomb of allegations against him in the March issue of Vanity Fair, most expolsive of which is that he seduced boys by giving them Coke cans filled with white wine he called “Jesus juice” and …

Yesterday bookofjoe had an interesting post about whether or not Martha Stewart should take the stand in her securities fraud trial. After a blunder by the prosecution today, it may be a moot point: A federal judge criticized prosecutors in the Martha Stewart trial for waiting too long to give …

Here’s the BBC on the BBC: BBC governors are holding a crisis meeting on Thursday after Lord Hutton’s damning verdict led the corporation’s chairman to quit. Gavyn Davies resigned after the most serious claims in Andrew Gilligan’s BBC’s reports were branded “unfounded”. But he questioned some of the retired law …

Congressional hearing today on broadcast “indecency“: House lawmakers on Wednesday called on television and radio broadcasters to clean up their act by instituting stricter standards after renewed complaints about the coarseness of some programming. They expressed disappointment that big broadcasters were not represented at a Congressional hearing delving into the …

With that force-of-nature rock ‘n’ roll bellow, Bob Seger sounds like no one else. Though I am less inclined toward his later ballad hits, his basic canon is indelible and crucial – I’m very glad he is being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year. The …

As I gather from this post by Al Barger, a lot of people have the impression that the negative reaction to Howard Dean’s oratory rampage the night of the Iowa caucuses is due to the anger he displayed. This is not at all how I see it. It wasn’t anger …

For those who are sanguine about Howard Dean’s performance in Iowa – ie, “it wasn’t that bad,” “he was just pumping up the faithful,” and the like – when freaking Maureen Dowd (Democraticic partisan, party-line lib) says you scared the women and horses, you scared the women and horses, buddy: …

Michael Jackson pleaded not guilty yesterday in a media circus worthy of Ringling Bros: The pop superstar was surrounded by cheering fans as he left the courtroom after the initial hearing in Santa Maria, California. “I love my fans,” he shouted to reporters as his bodyguards guided him through the …

The Dubai-based Al-Arabiya network is pissing people off – that’s a good sign: the Palestinian Authority has demanded that Arab satellite-TV journalists refer to any Palestinian killed by the Israeli Defense Forces as “martyred.” The instructions targeted the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya network, which until now had been using the politically and …

Clear Channel – the radio anti-Christ – is trying to deflect criticism of its generic, cookie cutter, race to the bottom approach to commercial radio hegemony by forming “local advisory boards” for its stations, including here in Cleveland: The largest U.S. radio chain, known in part for broadcasting single programs …