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David Cameron on Media Responsibility

I am by no means an unalloyed admirer of British Conservative Party leader David Cameron, ...

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“Fairness Doctrine” Defeated Again–for Now

The Fairness Doctrine, which allows Congress and the Federal Communications Commission to ...

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“Ratatouille” Leads Pack, Deservedly

The Disney/Pixar movie Ratatouille led in box office take over the weekend but opened weak...

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Greatest Action Movies of All Time

Coincidentally timed to align with today's premiere of Live Free or Die Hard, the magazine...

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Actor Fired After Homosexual Furor Is Putting Career Back in Order

Actor Isaiah Washington, fired from ABC TV program Gray's Anatomy, one of the top-rated sh...

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“Evan Almighty” Weak at Weekend Box Office

Evan Almighty, the most expensive comedy film ever made—with an official reported co...

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The Admirable Conciseness of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer topped the U.S. box office during the past...

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Media Getting Dirtier But Easier to Clean Up

The media are exposing children to too much overly sexual and violent content, but parents...

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Biased BBC

Not that it should surprise anybody, a year-long internal investigation by the British Bro...

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Everything You Could Ever Need to Know About Ocean’s 13

 If you liked the 2001 remake of Ocean's 11 and didn't hate Ocean's 12, you'll probab...

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Movies for Good Girls

A new wave of movies aimed at young girls is coming, starting this Friday with the theatri...

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Hating the American Dream

 It appears that I am nearly the only person in the United States who never cared abo...

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Please, No!

AP reports the horrible news:Galvanized by the success of "Shrek the Third," Jef...

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ABC Enforces Homosexual Protection Rule

For calling a fellow actor a "fag" during an argument with still another actor, ...

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More Progress on “Jericho” TV Program Return

As we noted two weeks ago, CBS television has been contemplating resurrecting the series J...

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Hollywood Politics—A Substitute Religion

Lars Walker has placed a very insightful comment on my post on recent Hollywood movies, im...

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The Foul Odor Emanating from Time Warner

In a comment on our Turner Classic Movies post below, Mike Tooney says, "If the gay a...

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Classic Movie Channel Goes Gay

Former National Review editor and journalist extroardinaire John O'Sullivan has frequently...

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What TV Networks Owe Loyal Viewers

Do producers and TV networks have an obligation to their viewers?Producers and networks ar...

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Why Movie Characters Smoke So Much

In a comment on our entry on Hollywood censorship of smoking, Lars Walker points out that ...

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Hollywood to Censor Smoking

 The Motion Picture Assoociation of America has announced that portrayals of smoking ...

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FCC’s Claims of TV Violence Problem Are Phony, Records Show

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission's claims that excessive television violence req...

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Should MLB Teams Ban Alcohol or Alcoholics?

Our column on "The Culture of Personal Irresponsibility" received some unexpecte...

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ION Network to Be Sold—Potential Cultural Asset Wasted

One of the most woefully underutilized cultural assets of the past few years has been the ...

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Web Bubble 2.0?

The Financial Times reports that investors may be engaging in another Internet "bubbl...

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FCC Urges Congress to Ignore Bill of Rights—So What’s New?

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads as follows:Congress shall make no law r...

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Ratings Down for Top Network TV Shows—But Viewership Remains Steady

The networks' top evening TV programs suffered serious viewership ratings losses in the pa...

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Rosie Gone—for Now

ABC Television has announced that Rosie O'Donnell, controversial host of the daytime show ...

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AOL a TV Network?

AOL announced yesterday that it is introducing a slate of programs positioning it as a bro...

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Imus Radio Show Canceled

As you've heard, Don Imus's radio show has now been canceled. And so this sorry saga ocmes...

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The Double Standard Regarding Offensiveness

As stated here two days ago (see below), radio host Don Imus's characterization of the Rut...

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Grabbing the Green from the Greens

There's more than one sucker born every minute, and most of them born in the past few deca...

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Why the Oscars Don’t Matter at All

The AP story recounting last night's Oscar ceremony goes right to the heart of why the Aca...