The FCC is being inundated with mail regarding the Victoria’s Secret lingerie show earlier in the week. Read the story. What did people tune in expecting to see?
Category: Media
Television Stinks
Is that why we watch it? Cable television has given this country an amazing variety of malarkey to watch. Last night on A&E Biographies, as part of “Blowdry Week”, it was “Charlie’s Angels”. Stellar programming. Of course, I was there, glued to the idiot box. Check out their web site. This is probably an unpopular…
Songwriter Decries MP3s
Songwriter Diane Warren penned a different ditty this week: an impassioned indictment of music “piracy” via MP3 downloads. If anyone is entitled to an opionion, Diane is. Read a bried bio on-line. Unfortunately, she is dreadfully wrong. Ms. Warren works in an industry in which barriers to entry, in the form of monolithic recording companies,…
CD Pricing Fixing Found
Universal Music Group, Sony Music, BMG Music Group, Warner Music Group, EMI Group, Musicland Stores, Trans World Entertainment and Tower Records settled a lawsuit alledging price fixing of CDs over a 6 year period. Read about it in the Yahoo News. Of course, they admit no wrongdoing – who does these days? But any tracker…
Music Industry Wises Up
Perhaps the music industry is starting to wise up when it comes to the virtues of the Internet. Read about it on MSNBC.com Or perhaps not. These are the same people who have kept CD prices artificially high for years and battled technological advances like Digital Audio Tape every step of the way. The fact…
Digital TV Mandate
Anyone who has ever seen a true HDTV picture wants that technology to become ubiquitous. The FCC may be making that happen. Read the AP story about the latest regulations. The entertainment industry has been dragging its feet in a big way in regards to this technology. The FCC has taken a small but necessary…
UNC Requires Islamic Reading
The University of North Carolina is in hot water over its required summer reading program. Read about in at CNN.com. The real problem, however, is not the required reading of Islamic passages. The real issue is the size of the uproar that would burst into being if students were required to read similar Christian passages….