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Kelly Clarkson has a golden future, right? Maybe so. But the "American Idol" winner and her fellow finalists had to sign virtually their entire careers away to the show's producers for one shot at stardom.
By Eric Olsen
September 18, 2002
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Fox's sadomasochistic battle of the power ballads mercifully ends tonight, but it's been a jaded recording executive's ultimate summer fantasy.
By Carina Chocano
September 4, 2002
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What do the barking heads of Fox News Channel and other Murdoch media have that CNN, Rather and Donahue don't? A true, virtuous, tabloid soul.
By Charles P. Pierce
August 22, 2002
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From Fox's "24" to Destiny's Child videos to Hollywood, the splintered aesthetic of multichannel storytelling -- once the province of the '60s avant-garde -- is suddenly everywhere.
By Julie Talen
May 14, 2002
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Sure, she was scary-skinny and her skirts were too short. But don't blame the unfiltered neuroses of "Ally McBeal" for the crisis contemporary women (and men) face.
By Carina Chocano
May 2, 2002
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Former Clinton accuser, humanity itself both take brutal pounding in "Celebrity Boxing."
By King Kaufman
March 14, 2002
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By pandering to anti-Arab hysteria, NBC, Fox News, Media General and Clear Channel radio disgraced themselves -- and ruined an innocent professor's life.
By Eric Boehlert
January 19, 2002
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The new series "24" brings back the kind of sexuality Bogart and Mitchum had, back when.
By David Thomson
November 8, 2001
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Fox unleashes "Who Wants to Be a Princess?" as "Undeclared" sprouts from the dung heap of the new season.
By Carina Chocano
September 27, 2001
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Digging through Gary Condit's tabloid trash and
courting Rush Limbaugh, is the venerable all-news network playing catch-up to the Fox News Channel?
By Eric Boehlert
September 5, 2001
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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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The finale: Wolf and Whitlow, put through the rigors, face the recruits on Dismissal Hill.
May 24, 2001
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How TV networks turned around their lily-white lineups -- and why that still isn't enough.
By Andy Dehnart
May 23, 2001
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Episode 7: Recruits Whitlow and Wolf endure a sleepless, never-ending gauntlet. So do we.
By Carina Chocano
May 17, 2001
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You say Moretty, we say Moretti! Plus: the case of the pilfered mint
May 11, 2001
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Episode 6: Treachery, thy name is Moretti-with-an-i. Plus: Jackson is a water wussy!
May 3, 2001
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Episode 5: McSweeney goes bonkers! Moretty just says no!
By Carina Chocano
April 26, 2001
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Episode 4: For once, Yaney blows up something besides a balloon.
April 19, 2001
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Episode 3: Just another recruit meets balloons, recruit loses balloons, recruit gets ballons back again story.
April 11, 2001
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Episode 2: Everything you wanted to know about boot camp bathrooms. Plus: "There's always a Gomer Pyle!"
April 5, 2001
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Episode 1: Apoplectic sergeants and shorn recruits get to know one another. Plus: The girls get sneaky!
March 29, 2001
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A producer of "Temptation Island," the tawdriest reality TV show of them all, tells what went on behind the scenes.
By Carina Chocano
March 6, 2001
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Episode 5: The jackass and the whore. Megan makes the rounds, and Andy gets pissed.
February 8, 2001
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"Temptation Island," Episode 4: It's just another day in paradise!
February 1, 2001
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"The Simpsons" has made him the ultimate industry insider, but it's the inane decisions and petty betrayals of clueless network executives that keep his trenchant satire fresh.
By Carina Chocano
January 30, 2001
Slaves of celebrity
Fox populi
"24": Split screen's big comeback
Bye-bye, dancing baby
Harding stops Jones in 3
The prime-time smearing of Sami Al-Arian
Come in, Kiefer
Pimp pageant
CNN: Veering right and aiming low
The Media Borg's man in Washington
Don't call it a comeback
"Sir yes sir!"
The naked reality
Matt Groening
GigaOM Network
Glenn Greenwald
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