Knowing when to keep quiet
June 2, 2003 The media often air their dirty laundry in public, as the flap over reporting fraud reminds us. But that’s just the newsroom sheets and towels. Picking through linen from the media’s...
View ArticleDeal makes Murdoch the mightiest media mogul
January 8, 2004 In the spirit of giving, just before Christmas regulators approved a proposal from Rupert Murdoch that will make him the country’s mightiest media baron. By a 3-2 vote, the Federal...
View ArticleReturn of sex casts a long shadow over the news
March 8, 2004 Suddenly, sex was back. For a few weeks those perplexing matters of war, plague, taxes and even interplanetary travel were shoved off the national stage. Instead we got sex and more sex....
View ArticleNet Neutrality Debate a Reminder that Content Was Never King
Media consumers are usually too busy paying attention to content to consider the channels through which it arrives. Yet the nature of those channels and the rules governing them have historically had a...
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