Brent Bozell and the PTC: Can the FCC Declare Them Obscene?
A couple of weeks ago, Bozo the Clown died. But Bozell the Clown still lives among us, defaming the good name of clowns everywhere by tormenting children and families around our country.
A couple of weeks ago, Bozo the Clown died. But Bozell the Clown still lives among us, defaming the good name of clowns everywhere by tormenting children and families around our country.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 07.24.2008 | Media
Was Afghanistan not major enough for him? It almost reminds you of when Rumsfeld was not impressed with invading Afghanistan because it did not provide a rich enough target environment.
WallStrip | Posted 07.23.2008 | Business
Fortune's Stanley Bing or CBS' Gil Schwartz -- call him what you will, he's interviewed by WallStrip's Julie Alexandra and talks about his new book, E...
MediaWeek | Mike Shields | Posted 07.22.2008 | Media
CBS has provided more evidence to support the much-repeated theory that streaming full-length episodes of prime-time series is mostly additive for the...
AP | JOANN LOVIGLIO | Posted 07.21.2008 | Media
PHILADELPHIA (AP) _ Among the most notorious on-screen gaffes ever, Janet Jackson's breast-baring "wardrobe malfunction" on CBS during the 2004 Super ...
AP | LYNN ELBER | Posted 07.18.2008 | Media
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Job insecurity may be widespread in the media but Katie Couric still has no need to worry, her boss says. Rumors that C...
New York Times | Tim Arango and Andrew Ross Sorkin | Posted 07.10.2008 | Media
SUN VALLEY, Idaho -- Sumner M. Redstone, the chairman and controlling shareholder of Viacom and CBS, is usually a ubiquitous figure here at the invest...
Huffington Post | Posted 07.08.2008 | Media
Lara Logan is pregnant and will marry the father of her baby, Joe Burkett, the state department contractor whose marriage she was accused of destroyin...
Michael Russnow | Posted 07.07.2008 | Business
I've been refeeding meters for years and never gotten a ticket. Apparently, according to the meter maid, I'd been lucky in all cases.
Hollywood Reporter | Georg Szalai | Posted 07.01.2008 | Media
It was a tough first half for big media and entertainment stocks as economic sluggishness, company-specific concerns and broader market declines -- pa...
New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 06.27.2008 | Media
A First Amendment case has escalated between CBS News and a military court over a "60 Minutes" report about an attack at Haditha, Iraq. The network i...
Huffington Post | Sean Morrow | Posted 06.27.2008 | Entertainment
Huffington post blogger Larry David of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm fame has released a video in which he states "Cancer has many victims, I shou...
Huffington Post | Posted 06.26.2008 | Media
CBS' Lara Logan was involved in a Baghdad love triangle with a married US State Department contractor and CNN international correspondent Michael Ware...
Huffington Post | Posted 06.25.2008 | Media
Update: For more details on the Logan's Baghdad love triangle — revealed to include CNN's Michael Ware — click here. Lara Logan, who has ...
Nina Spezzaferro | Posted 06.11.2008 | Business
With new targeting data available, especially on the Internet, advertisers should consider targeting people of a certain life-stage, rather than a particular age or gender.
Charles Warner | Posted 06.05.2008 | Media
Think of it, Bagels With Billary, a morning show simulcast with Katie Couric as hostess and either Bill or Hillary or both talking with each other or to other celebrities. Who wouldn't go on their show?
Silicon Alley Insider | Michael Learmonth | Posted 06.04.2008 | Media
CBS is expected to announce a significant partnership with Yahoo that may include adding the portal to its video distribution network, Techcrunch repo...
Jerry Weinstein | Posted 06.02.2008 | Media
Think of it as the Big Bang of Video.
LA Times | Martin Miller | Posted 05.31.2008 | Entertainment
IT'S NOT every day you see a unicorn, especially one dancing in a fuchsia dress, smack in the middle of a television network's living room. But there ...
Beverly Davis | Posted 05.29.2008 | Home
As we are reminded again this week: you don't get in trouble in D.C. for lying, covering up and stonewalling, but you catch hell for telling the truth-- even if it's the least-surprising truth ever.
Ed Martin | Posted 05.29.2008 | Entertainment
The strangeness surrounding the strike-compromised 2007-08 broadcast season just won't stop -- even now that the season is over.
Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.29.2008 | Media
Just a few years ago, the press cavalierly snubbed Kennedy. A key turning point during that public rush to war was Kennedy's fervent and thoughtful anti-war speech in 2002.
Ed Martin | Posted 05.22.2008 | Entertainment
We had been led to expect networks to roll over and play dead in the wake of the WGA strike and amid the recession -- but almost all the networks rallied in grand style for Upfronts 2008.
AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 05.21.2008 | Media
NEW YORK — With a strong finishing kick from "American Idol," Fox captured the distinction of America's most popular television network for the ...
The McCain campaign implied on Wednesday that Barack Obama's commitment...
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As we have observed throughout the last several years,...
In a flagrant political act, the State Department has...
**UPDATE 7/25** ThinkProgress now reports that the bar...
** Update below: Nas delivers Fox petition to Stephen...
BARCELONA, Spain — Christian Bale swept into Barcelona on Wednesday night to attend a...
If you're wondering about the recent articles claiming that a study found...
HOUSTON — A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico off...
WASHINGTON — Rescue legislation sailed through the House on Wednesday aimed at...
Matt Littman | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics