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  • Like father, like son

    As Colin and Michael Powell exit the Bush administration, they leave legacies of failure.
    By Eric Boehlert January 24, 2005

  • Right Hook

    Pro-lifers seize on Scott Peterson's death sentence; creationists behold an ancient Indonesian dwarf. Plus: Will tranny-bashing Limbaugh get an FCC spanking?
    By Mark Follman December 15, 2004

  • Setback for Big Media

    A court of appeals rules that the FCC's attempt to allow further consolidation by giant companies like Viacom and Time Warner is illogical -- pleasing a curious coalition of liberals and conservatives.
    By Eric Boehlert June 25, 2004

  • America's laziest fascist

    Infamous shock jock Michael Savage bombed in a bizarre, half-baked stage show this week, but his 6 million listeners just heard him call for the U.S. to murder millions of Arabs. Does the FCC care?
    By Dave Gilson May 20, 2004

  • Right Hook

    Steyn slams Bush for torture apology, Hagelin blames abuses on American porn culture; Savage calls for U.S. to kill "thousands" of Iraqi prisoners and drop an H-bomb on an Arab capital. Plus: Heartland hard-liners dub same-sex marriage licenses "death certificates."
    By Mark Follman May 19, 2004

  • Howard Stern unplugged

    With the government escalating its war on radio free speech, the shock jock's days are numbered.
    By Eric Boehlert April 14, 2004

  • First they came for Howard

    Why isn't everyone who cares about free speech rallying around the embattled radio personality?
    By Dan Savage April 14, 2004

  • Dirty old man

    George Carlin on obscenity in the age of Ashcroft.
    By Charles Taylor April 3, 2004

  • Watch your mouth

    In its Thursday ruling against Bono and Howard Stern, the FCC announced that a new day of language policing has dawned.
    By Eric Boehlert March 19, 2004

  • Big Brother -- or Big Daddy?

    Someone should remind the people now exploiting Janet Jackson's boob -- Washington politicians -- that most TV programming is democratically elected.
    By Charles Taylor February 12, 2004

  • Tit for tat

    How Justin Timberlake accomplished what the president hasn't been able to: Bring us closer to our fundamentalist brothers.
    By Charles Taylor February 3, 2004

  • The media octopus loses a tentacle

    Congress has dealt Bush a stinging defeat on the FCC's relaxed new ownership rules -- and is threatening to strike a fatal blow.
    By Eric Boehlert November 21, 2003

  • Trent Lott, populist hero

    Once a GOP ultra-partisan, the deposed Senate leader is now leading the charge against the FCC and media giantism. Is it his revenge against the Bush White House?
    By Eric Boehlert September 22, 2003

  • The truth, new and improved

    If you liked the Iraqi Information Minister, you'll love the new FCC Minister of Information.
    Cartoon by Mark Fiore June 6, 2003

  • Just say no to supersized media

    In Atlanta, at the last "unsanctioned" FCC hearing organized by dissident commissioners, Big Media gets small support.
    By Meredith Hobbs May 29, 2003

  • Last stop before the media monopoly

    FCC chairman Michael Powell is likely to get media ownership deregulated -- even though public comment is running 97 percent against it.
    By Eric Boehlert May 23, 2003

  • The big blackout

    Surprise, surprise: The TV networks that will benefit from the new FCC rules on media ownership have been keeping their viewers in the dark about the changes.
    By Eric Boehlert May 22, 2003

  • Can the Web beat Big Media?

    FCC czar Michael Powell says new technologies will let diversity flourish even as giant corporations consolidate their control over TV and newspapers. Dream on.
    By Farhad Manjoo May 21, 2003

  • Habla usted Clear Channel?

    If the FCC allows the two biggest Spanish-language media companies in the U.S. to merge, it'll create a media conglomerate that will dwarf all competitors -- and could help GOP-friendly radio titan Clear Channel deliver Hispanic votes for Bush in '04.
    By Eric Boehlert April 24, 2003

  • The myth of interference

    Internet architect David Reed explains how bad science created the broadcast industry.
    By David Weinberger March 12, 2003

  • Clear Channel's big, stinking deregulation mess

    The sorry state of the radio industry today is sabotaging FCC chairman Michael Powell's plans to let media conglomerates run wild.
    By Eric Boehlert February 19, 2003

  • Deregulation's big lie

    FCC chairman Michael Powell says the WorldCom debacle may result in more telecom mergers. So who ends up losing? We all do, explains one industry expert.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski July 16, 2002

  • Every dial you take

    The FBI is asking for more information about what you do on the phone, and no one is saying no.
    By Jeffrey Benner June 18, 2002

  • Getting a lock on broadband

    How the FCC is paving the way for a few big companies to control everyone's high-speed Internet access.
    By Jeffrey Benner June 7, 2002

  • The Media Borg's man in Washington

    FCC chairman Michael Powell, Colin's smooth, ambitious son, has never met a media merger he didn't like.
    By Eric Boehlert August 6, 2001
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