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Even USA Today Thinks Current TV is a 'Disaster'

julia.seymour — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:04:38 +0000

USA Today highlights problems with Al Gore’s cable startup.

Mike Ciandella

Following up on the announcement last week that Current TV was up for sale, USA Today ran an article on Nov. 5 highlighting some of the failures of the short-lived cable channel founded by former vice president Al Gore.

CMI COMMENTARY: Pageants and "Prosti-Tots"

admin — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 18:26:00 +0000

L. Brent Bozell III

People who love reality television often have a special attraction to 'train wreck' shows. For two years now, the tasteless titans of the cable channel TLC have been exploiting the spectacle of hyper-ambitious stage mothers parading around 'beauty queens' just barely out of diapers in thousand-dollar gowns. The program is titled 'Toddlers & Tiaras.' But now it's even worse: they're dressing up little girls as what radio hosts are calling 'prosti-tots.'

O, What a Business Move to Hype a Half-Sister

admin — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 02:00:00 +0000

Dan Gainor

She is the Queen of All Media, a woman so successful she has her own TV show, her own magazine, $2.7 billion in the bank, a book club that can make any author a best seller and now her own TV network. And, conveniently, she also has a 'secret' she had to share with 6.7 billion close friends - just in time to promote her fledgling cable channel.

Networks Barely Mention FCC Plan to Spend Up to $350 Billion for Broadband Internet

admin — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:32:25 +0000

Julia A. Seymour

The problem with the liberal mindset is that it sees government solutions, even when there isn’t really a problem. Case in point: broadband internet.

Roughly 200 million Americans have broadband internet at home. Millions of others have access to it at work, school, the public library or on smart phones. Only about 5 percent of Americans lack broadband internet access according to The Wall Street Journal.

Unmasking the Myths Behind the Fairness Doctrine

admin — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 02:31:00 +0000

CMI Staff

Introduction

Former CBS Anchor Blames Deregulation for Deterioration of TV News

admin — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:25:57 +0000

Jeff Poor

One might think in the free market of ideas, increased competition would inspire more innovation, leading to more and better choices for the consumer.

Roger Mudd, a former “CBS Evening News” weekend and fill-in anchor and co-host of NBC’s “Meet the Press” and “Nightly News,” said more choices have caused the quality of TV news to decrease instead of increase.

CNBC's Faber on Network TV News: 'That Ship Has Sailed'

admin — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:12:36 +0000

Jeff Poor

The transformation of the news business might be taking its first big-name casualty soon.

The April 8 New York Times reported network-giant CBS is in negotiations with CNN to outsource its newsgathering operations. CNBC’s David Faber said the move was long overdue during his “Faber Report” segment on the April 8 “Squawk on the Street.”

Destroying America To Save The World

admin — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 02:48:00 +0000

Dan Gainor

See Executive Summary