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.
TVWeek | Josef Adalian | Posted 07.22.2008 | Media
The CW has lifted its ban on Internet streaming of "Gossip Girl." The network made headlines last spring when it announced it would stop streaming ep...
Ed Martin | Posted 07.21.2008 | Business
Critics enjoy picking on Gossip Girl because its television ratings are very small, even though its demographics are young and desirable.
Joe Satran | Posted 07.20.2008 | Entertainment
A solid chunk of the appeal of Gossip Girl lies in the sense that the actors on the show really are their characters, so there was no way I was going to pass up an opportunity to meet one of the stars.
Vanity Fair | Posted 06.30.2008 | Entertainment
Vanity Fair features the new wave of Young Hollywood in the August issue, with a cover starring Kristen Stewart, Blake Lively, Emma Roberts, and Amand...
Hollywood Reporter via Reuters | Posted 06.11.2008 | Entertainment
The makers of "Gossip Girl" are planning a spinoff series set at a girls' boarding school. Producers are hoping to expand the popular CW show either ...
Jerry Weinstein | Posted 06.02.2008 | Media
Think of it as the Big Bang of Video.
Sherman Yellen | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics
Events like this morning's disaster will happen again and again because in Bloomberg's New York a crane hangs dangerously over the world below every few blocks.
AP | LYNN ELBER | Posted 05.28.2008 | Media
LOS ANGELES — The glossy, big-city world of "Gossip Girls" is far afield of the modest, small-town doings of "Farmer Wants a Wife." Logic dicta...
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.
Jack Donaldson | Posted 05.20.2008 | Living
The Internet is a pretty vast place, so I compiled a cheat sheet of links for the week: a veritable potpourri of diverting videos, articles, commercials, and music.
Silicon Alley Insider | Michael Learmonth | Posted 05.16.2008 | Media
The CW has a tortured relationship with the Web. Last month the youth-oriented network tried to stop ratings declines for its "hit" show "Gossip Girl"...
Jessica Queller | Posted 05.07.2008 | Living
People often ask me how I became a writer. My standard reply: "It took me until the age of twenty-nine to figure out I didn't want to marry a manic-depressive, alcoholic writer, I just wanted to be one."
Andy Borowitz | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics
By launching WrightTV, the minister said, "It is my sincere hope that I can quench the public's seemingly limitless thirst for hearing me talk."
Huffington Post | Patrick Waldo | Posted 04.27.2008 | Entertainment
Spotted: In our nation's capital, "Gossip Girl" star Ed Westwick melting hearts and upstaging foreign policy realist and total hottie Zbigniew Brzezin...
Daily Mail | Posted 04.27.2008 | Entertainment
It is the latest must-see teen drama that has taken America by storm, and it has now hit British TV screens. Gossip Girl, created by the producers of...
Daniella Gibbs Leger | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics
Giving the issues the Gossip Girl treatment and boiling things down to "he said, she said, he said," fails us all.
236.com | 23/6: News You Can Misuse | Posted 04.23.2008 | Entertainment
This week's main event? Not the Pennsylvania primary, silly, but Monday night's return of the hit show "Gossip Girl" on the CW. If you missed it, 23/6...
Verena von Pfetten | Posted 04.23.2008 | Living
Somewhere between the immaculate conception and Pope Benedict XVI's US tour, God has worked his way into the bedroom. I, for one, did not see it com...
NY Mag | Chris Rovzar & Jessica Pressler | Posted 04.21.2008 | Entertainment
Before you see them, you can hear them. The sound is low but insistent, a hum that gradually develops into something recognizable. OmigodOmigodOmigod....
Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo | Andrew Wallenstein | Posted 04.18.2008 | Entertainment
The CW network is taking aim at an unlikely competitive threat: its own Web site. The network said Thursday that episodes of its series "Gossip Girl"...
Leslie Goldman | Posted 04.13.2008 | Entertainment
The use of a teeny-bopper text message acronym in a very adult ad for a show about high schoolers is novel yet symbolic of the dichotomy which exists when it comes to marketing to young adults.
New York Times | Katie Thomas | Posted 02.11.2008 | Entertainment
THERE was a star in the driveway of the Hyatt Regency here last Saturday night. As guests left the hotel, they stopped and grabbed the arms of friend...
Huffington Post | Michelle Kung | Posted 12.04.2007 | Media
Now, Blake Lively, who plays reformed bad girl Serena van der Woodsen on the deliciously addictive "Gossip Girl," has gotten some slack for looking mo...
Variety | MICHAEL SCHNEIDER, JOSEF ADALIAN | Posted 11.23.2007 | Media
In 1988, a writers strike helped steer viewers to the fledgling Fox network. Now, the 2007 scribe shutdown could give another upstart, the CW, a neede...
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BARCELONA, Spain — Christian Bale swept into Barcelona on Wednesday night to attend a...
HOUSTON — A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico off...
A chimp in Japan escaped the sweltering confines of his cage, and a zookeeper with a tranquilizer gun...
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Matt Littman | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics