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I wanted say that I think that the painting of Clear Channel as politically motivated is for the most part false. I side much more with the painting of them as just greedy. That said, I do think they pose a threat, although not to the likes of Stern, but to new artists. While this [...]

I guess we’ll just have to disagree that FCC regulations = censorship. Language like “serious debate over censorship,” to me, instantly implies credence to the namby-pamby crybabies that claim the Night of the Long Knives, Part 2 is at hand at the mere mention of “decency” or “standards.”
How about, “a serious debate over FCC regulations?” [...]

… While we’re seeing how many media ethicists can dance on the head of a question, M.E. Russell could just go the other way and argue that he was just a guy who’s paid to write opinions about movies talking with a guy who’s paid far more to make them. In which case, as long [...]

Oh, so it’s going to be like that, is it? Very well:
I wrote/asked: “Right now, we’re in the middle of a pretty serious censorship debate. The FCC’s cracking down.” To pick apart the wording of this sentence in an effort to somehow scold me for behaving like some sort of ignorant lightweight dancing in the [...]

It sounds like Wonderfalls (which is run by Angel vet Tim Minear btw) is on its way to cancellation, joining my past favorites Andy Richter and The Tick. Very sad. Not very surprising. But hey, boys, more episodes of Oliver Beene! Rejoice! Perhaps a Leno cameo is in the works.
Seriously, if AR and Tick, and [...]

I think my biggest entertainment addiction is the fightin’ Greg Dorr.
Speaking of media assumptions. In this AP story about this Clarke guy who just recently finished his book promotional tour (aka the 9/11 hearings) bashing the Bush admin for not accomplishing in 8 months what the Clinton admin couldn’t in 8 years, I noticed the [...]

I thought my sarcastic hyperbole was obvious when I referred to M.E. Russell as, “an unwitting pawn or an active stealth agent,” but that doesn’t make the following sentence in his Kevin Smith interview any less dubious (or my reaction to mere contrarianism):

Right now, we’re in the middle of a pretty serious censorship debate. The [...]

See, I’ve never even heard of that. I guess I ought to check that out.
Has David Kelly gone away yet? That might be a good thing.
Anyway, one of the guys that attended that computer gaming party was notably witty. My brother in-law told me that he has a web-site set up for a petition to [...]

…. Pointing out that a debate EXISTS on the FCC crackdown makes someone “an unwitting pawn or an active stealth agent”? Um, speaking of hyperbole, I certainly hope that ready-for-the-alt-newsweekly conspiracy verbiage was meant as satire.
The debate over the ridiculous bureaucratic overreaction (public and private) to the sight of Janet Jackson’s cinnamon can is far [...]

M.E. Russell did not overtly take sides in the so-called “censorship debate.” Rather, he became either an unwitting pawn or an active stealth agent by directly asserting that, a), a “debate” on the subject exists (debate as opposed to one-way moaning by spoiled celebrities) and that, b), it is in anyway “serious” (as opposed to [...]

Better minds than mine weigh in on Wonderfalls — J.V. Last at the Weekly Standard is positively sittin’ in a tree with it.
As for this M.E. Russell fellow daring to suggest to Mr. Kevin Smith that there’s a debate going on over censorship and the FCC: Did Mr. Russell take sides in this storied debate [...]

I want to echo Matt’s praises of “Wonderfalls” — which is convoluted and funny and strange and will sadly die a quick death opposite Must See TV. (It’s on Thursdays at 9 now, I believe.)
The show takes a really dumb premise — crazy slacker girl is told to do good deeds by inanimate objects — [...]

There are many great choices these days.
Arrested Development is easily my favorite show these days. It’s always over too soon, even though it has seemingly dispensed more amazing jokes in one episode than one might glean from watching the entire runs of even great shows like Cheers.
Sadly, in addition to the fabulous Fox Sunday [...]

Didn’t Eric write a paper on this subject within which he wrote something like “if watching television makes you incrementally less intelligent, then I already am an idiot”? I seem to remember something like that. It was funny.
Reality TV – My wife loves it. I rarely watch it. I don’t see it having [...]

Does this titilating video work on your computer. I have real player but the image is just frozen. It’s really a bummer. How about you?

This is why I am against nation-building. You want to live in Medieval times, be my guest. We will disarm you and you can go back 7th Century Arabia.

Nicholas Kristoff has a good article in today’s New York Times about Africa’s problems.
As usual, one of its problems is Muslim States disintegrating in to civil war and Muslims waging genocidal campaigns against people they hate (sound familiar). This time they are trying to wipe out all the blacks in Sudan and Uganda and [...]

Axl Rose and Guns n’ Roses have had to cancel another tour because lead guitarist “buckethead” quit the band. Here’s a quote from the official press release:
During his tenure with the band Buckethead has been inconsistent and erratic in both his behavior and commitment — despite being under contract — creating uncertainty and confusion [...]

Greg, you seem to be in quite the jocular mood this evening. You taking some kind of comedy-enhancing herbal supplement? Secretly watching the Kevin Smith oevre?
That joke you made about Adu signing with Manchester City made me laugh out loud. Of course, it would be even funnier if Adu signed with Man City in a [...]

What kind of leftist agent is this M.E. Russell, anyway? Look at this assumption he passes off during his interview with some nice-sounding fellow named Kevin Smith:

Right now, we’re in the middle of a pretty serious censorship debate. The FCC’s cracking down.

What censorship? How is the debate “serious?” These big city papers fill their ranks [...]