Tag Archives: Media

Can the RIAA sue individuals for copyright infringement? Yes, obviously they are. The RIAA was apparently of the opinion that lawsuits against children and grandparents potentially costing targets MILLIONS (at the rate of up to $150,000 per infringement) would cow and shame the nation into changing both their behavior and …

Sorry I’ve been scarce – been working intensely on an article, and this afternoon Dawn and I appeared with the brilliant and charming Dee Perry on the Cleveland NPR station WCPN to discuss this old bloggy world of ours and to cast our spell over the masses, needless to say. …

In an effort to combat the ongoing and largely partisan efforts to paint the status of the War on Terror in the bleakest possible light, coupled with the media’s tendency to focus on the the abrupt and the horrible vs. the procedural and the positive, I offer up these words …

Our “boots on the ground” correspondent Stephen, traveling the Middle East on a musical performance tour, reports from Kuwait. His first two reports are here and here. Thanks again for getting the view out there– I feel so frustrated watching this going on and then seeing the way it is …

My friend Stephen, the musician (among many other skills and attributes including a PhD) touring Kuwait, Syria, and Lebanon, was astonished to find how far and quickly his letter to America had permeated the Internet. After appearing here on Blogcritics.org last week, it was disseminated far and wide (especially by …

As we here at Blogcritics.org know, how one responds to popular culture – or even IF one responds to popular culture at all – can say volumes about a person. How we entertain ourselves and sensitivity to art can reveal much about our inner workings. Stephen Snowder calls the media …

My friend Stephen is on tour playing music in Syria, Kuwait, Lebanon. He had a hell of a time emailing from Syria – this report comes from Kuwait: I’m now in Kuwait where mercifully the internet is not (as) censored!!! I can’t imagine how much effort those guys go to …

Is it the bloated, gaseous, anti-American dissembler Michael Moore or the bombastic, pompous, flag-wrapped and imperious Bill O'Reilly?

Call it a stinging rebuke, call it a swift kick to the nutsack, but FCC Chairman Michael Powell’s leadership has been eviscerated by the U.S. Senate: The Senate voted 55 to 40 today to wipe out all of the Federal Communication Commission’s controversial new media rules, employing a little used …

The essence of the entertainment industry’s problem with the Internet is its culture of freely shared information that dates back to its beginnings as a connected academic think tank: Part of the challenge facing not just the recording industry but all media companies is how to deal with the lingering …