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New service TVTonic offers “DVD quality” video over the Internet for $1.95 per month: But you can use TVTonic for two months at no cost. Just download and install the TVTonic software and start receiving video entertainment channels of the highest quality. You’ll have two months to decide if TVTonic …
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Victoria’s Bachelor
Whoa – you think I’ve been slamming TV, especially “reality” TV, hard? Check out this preview of tonight’s programming by Robert Bianco in USA Today: Even on a medium prone to the tawdry, seldom have we seen a seamier battle than tonight’s competition between CBS’ Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show and …
Read More »What Kind of War Coverage Can We Expect?
That depends upon who you talk to: Former CNN correspondent Peter Arnett is back in Baghdad — the scene of his glory days from the last Gulf War — and he predicts that the United States will be at war with Iraq in short order. ”I don’t think Saddam will …
Read More »Sexplosion!
Network TV seems to be an endless sluice of ever more base “reality shows” (quotation marks because these shows are just as staged as Touched by an Angel and a whole lot less honest about it) in a race to the bottom of the unlit basement of human nature, many …
Read More »Roswell 2002
The … truth … will … be … revealed … November 22 … on … the SCI FI Channel. The cable channel sent a team of archeologists to Roswell, New Mexico, site of the most enduring UFO controversy, to see what they could see: In an effort to verify once …
Read More »A Long, Long Way From Cleopatra
Egytian satellite TV channel talks sex and nation’s youth reveal they don’t know their lingam from their yoni. The government disapproves either way: A risque mix of sex and politics has got a ground-breaking Egyptian satellite TV channel into hot water with the government. Dream TV has been asked to …
Read More »The Truth of Parody
Phil Donahue is not long for this TV world.
Read More »Al Jazeera Update
Arab TV network al Jazeera comes under scrutiny once again for its broadcast of the latest bin Laden bile-fest. An update to our coverage can be found here.
Read More »PETA vs. Victoria’s Secret = No Contest
Victoria’s Secret “Christmas Dreams and Fantasies” fashion show was interrupted by a PETA protest: Activists for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals rushed the stage as Gisele Bundchen strutted down the runway in a beaded bra and panties, thigh-high black stockings and red strappy heels. The four female protesters, …
Read More »“Broadcast Flag”
December 6 is the deadline to let the FCC know how you feel about even more restrictions on what you can do with digital content, specifically your ability to make copies of digital-broadcast television programs. Please see this report by CDT, Consumers Union, and Public Knowledge outlining consumer questions posed …
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