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Tag Archives: Media

Corporations/Clear Channel Killed The Radio Star

I have never heard a larger pile of crap than what I just subjected myself to a few minutes ago. On NPR’s “Talk of the Nation”, host Neal Conan had on guests discussing commercial radio and the transformation it has gone through since deregulation in 1996. One of the guests …

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Playboy Getting Real

T&A from Playboy via RealNetwork’s OpenPass paid video service. The girls will also be popping up via video clips and photos on cell phones in Europe and Asia on Hong Kong conglomerate Hutchinson Whampoa’s cellular phone service: Playboy Enterprises last week began offering a $25-a-month “Playboy TV Club” subscription as …

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Can a Real Arts Channel Be Supported on TV?

If you are going to be in LA in early June, this sounds very interesting: TV or NOT TV: Discussions To Create A Mass Media Outlet For The Arts At (MOCA) The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Thursday, June 5, 2003 7:30 pm The last panel “Can the Arts …

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“Let’s debate this out in the open, take polls, get the president on the record and turn up the heat”

William Safire writing today in the NY Times against impending FCC media ownership deregulation: The F.C.C. proposal remains officially secret to avoid public comment but was forced into the open by the two commission Democrats. It would end the ban in most cities of cross-ownership of television stations and newspapers, …

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Strange Bedfellows

Though the FCC loosening of media ownership restrictions looks like a done deal, that isn’t stopping strange bedfellows from fighting the good fight: The Federal Communications Commission’s likely action to relax major media ownership rules is forging some unexpected political alliances. For instance, for the first time a group known …

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“Star Wars Kid” Booty Up Over $3K

The Internet, and now the NY Times, dig on the sometimes deft, but more often lurching light saber action of a 15-year-old chunky kid from Quebec, known as Ghyslain: In the video, Ghyslain brandishes a golf ball retriever in a series of maneuvers that are both painfully awkward and unmistakably …

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Matrix Backlash in Record Time

The headline of Dan Ackman’s consideration of The Matrix Reloaded in Forbes screams, “How The Matrix Ruined Movies.” As far as I can tell, he hasn’t seen it yet – that’s backlash, after only four days: The Matrix Reloaded generated $93.3 million at U.S. box offices over the weekend. That’s …

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It’s Confirmed: Matt Welch IS Ben Affleck

Our hero, reluctant Ben Affleck look-alike Matt Welch, tells his mythic tale of Google, insidious blogger influence upon mass culture, and the relentless march of Reality TV (Idol finals this week – woo hoo!) through the ranks of the willing and otherwise: I — who have watched just three hours …

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