Tag Archives: Media

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 …

Yesterday we reported that intelligence analyst George Friedman predicted the war with Iraq could begin as soon as this weekend: On timing, Friedman says an attack is probably imminent. This weekend offers a moonless night over Iraq’s desert sands. U.S. Gen. Tommy Franks, who will have responsibility for an invasion …

I have no idea if Cleveland Imam Fawaz Damra is a changed man or has simply learned to be discreet, but a “youthful indiscretion” has turned up in a very serious federal case: A federal indictment handed up Thursday accuses a University of South Florida engineering professor, Sami Amin Al-Arian, …

Brent Staples criticizes corporate control of radio in a NY Times editorial today. While his angle is the lack of protest music on the radio today and his comparisons to Vietnam are specious, he’s right on about the homogenization of radio under corporate consolidation: When a media giant swallows a …