Networks

You are who you know: Part 2
Social software pioneers have the Internet biz buzzing again. But their new networks are even more valuable as booster shots for human connection.
Down and out in Redmond
When Microsoft fell off the grid, its first reaction was to cover its butt.
Cruel summer for the 24-hour TV news execs
With blown-out tires and wildfires passing as big stories, news-junkie networks are jonesing.
The GOP Convention ratings debacle, Day 1
CBS and ABC tune in, America tunes out and NBC wins by ignoring the convention entirely.
Rerunning in place
TV makes history as two networks consider getting rid of repeats
When good governments go bad
These pernicious moments brought to you by your elected leaders. PLUS: Sisterhood pyramid schemes, supermarket warfare and a man and his hooptie.
Propaganda for dollars
When the White House and the TV networks got together to put anti-drug messages in prime-time television, were they breaking the law?
Prime-time propaganda
How the White House secretly hooked network TV on its anti-drug message: A Salon special report.
Washington script doctors
How the government rewrote an episode of the WB's "Smart Guy."
Media Circus: With "education" like this, who needs infomercials?
Thanks to the new FCC guidelines mandating more educational TV, kids have learned essential facts -- like the NBA is really cool and always to watch for spies when leaving the house.
21st: Little crashes lead to big crashes
Salon 21st: Little crashes lead to big crashes: By Andrew Leonard. Today's computer networks allow less and less "slack" for error. Yet we depend on them more and more to run our banks and airlines, our governments and wars. According to the author of "Trapped in the Net," we're asking for trouble.

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