The Media Drop

On Monday, the Federal Communications Commission denied indecency complaints in two separated orders, as investigated after receiving 36 complaints through the Parents Television Council (PTC).
The Commission concluded that, in context, none of the segments were patently offensive under contemporary standards for the broadcast medium, and thus not indecent. The Commission also found […]

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The Associated Press reported a short time ago that the Justice Department is working on a “preliminary investigation” into the New York Times Company’s acquisition of 49% of Metro Boston. The concern here is that the free daily would “compete” alongside NYTCo’s Boston Globe newspaper with the rival Boston Herald.
Also noted is […]

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This morning, word got out that FCC Chairman Michael Powell would be resigning from the commission as early as today. It is curious, as Glenn Fleishman states, why this is happening a day after President Bush was inaugurated for a second term. Fleishman makes some great points about how he may differ […]

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The fine folks at RatherBiased are all over the breaking news coming out of CBS this morning:
Asked to resign were Senior Vice President Betsy West, who supervised CBS News primetime programs; 60 Minutes Wednesday Executive Producer Josh Howard; and Howard’s deputy, Senior Broadcast Producer Mary Murphy. The producer of the piece, Mary Mapes, was terminated.
Mapes’ […]

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Matt Marshall and Michael Bazeley report in SiliconBeat that columnist / blogger Dan Gillmor will be leaving the Mercury News at the end of December. “Dan will be starting a grass-roots journalism venture,” they say - no specifics available just yet. Read the whole thing.
[update] Dan just posted on his blog. […]

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The Associated Press reports that NBC Sports president Dick Ebersol survived a plane crash in Colorado on Sunday. Also on the plane were Ebersol’s sons, Charles and Teddy - the latter of whom is still missing at this time. Both pilots were killed in the crash, which happened on takeoff.
[update] Lost Remote’s Cory […]

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A short while ago, CBS News announced that evening news anchor Dan Rather would be stepping down after the March 9, 2005 newscast, but will stay on with the network. Check out all the details here at RatherBiased.com - where you can also find the statement that Andrew Heyward, news division boss, sent out […]

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MSNBC, just posted an Associated Press report stating that a verdict has been reached in the Scott Peterson murder trial, and that the public announcement of the decision will be at 4pm Eastern.
[Thanks to Suzette for the tip]
[update] Guilty of murder in the first for Laci Peterson, guilty of murder in the second for […]

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MSNBC has the story on the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

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Robert Cox has the translation from NBC News of the latest Osama bin Laden videotape.

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