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Howard Stern unplugged
With the government escalating its war on radio free speech, the shock jock's days are numbered.
First they came for Howard
Why isn't everyone who cares about free speech rallying around the embattled radio personality?
Dirty old man
George Carlin on obscenity in the age of Ashcroft.
Watch your mouth
In its Thursday ruling against Bono and Howard Stern, the FCC announced that a new day of language policing has dawned.
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.
Tit for tat
How Justin Timberlake accomplished what the president hasn't been able to: Bring us closer to our fundamentalist brothers.
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.
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?
The truth, new and improved
If you liked the Iraqi Information Minister, you'll love the new FCC Minister of Information.
Just say no to supersized media
In Atlanta, at the last "unsanctioned" FCC hearing organized by dissident commissioners, Big Media gets small support.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The myth of interference
Internet architect David Reed explains how bad science created the broadcast industry.
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.
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.
Every dial you take
The FBI is asking for more information about what you do on the phone, and no one is saying no.
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.
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.
Consolidation politics
With Michael Powell in charge at the FCC, more media megamergers are on the way.
One big happy channel?
The Telecommunications Reform Act handed over control of the radio airwaves to a chosen few. Will TV be next?
Slim Shady takes a hit from the FCC
By Eric Boehlert
Slim Shady takes a hit from the FCC
Citing new indecency guidelines, the commission fines a radio station for playing Eminem.
Big radio bites back!
Major broadcasting companies and NPR are ganging up on low-power FM radio. Can John McCain save the day?
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