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Rad Girls: The Female Version of Jackass

Ramona Ca$h, Munchie, and Darling Clementine are collectively known as Rad Girls, a... more

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How to Strip a Girl...with a Crane

A new show on ABC this week has men undressing underwear clad girls with nothing but a... more

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The Meeting

In this Current At The Fringe pod we meet 3 young actors who are putting on a... more

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Has Tyra Banks Become the Predator?

Check out the photos and you be the judge.

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UK viewers watching more adverts

The number of TV adverts being watched in the UK has increased 6% since last year:... more

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Terry Wogan laments BBC 'decline'

Veteran TV presenter Terry Wogan has criticised what he calls the decline of "old... more

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Kleenex let it out

Kleenex cambia strategia comunicativa, puntando sul web e sulle emoizioni. Il brand si... more

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Tributes paid to BBC TV's Cotton

Sir Bill oversaw some of the BBC's most popular TV shows in the 70s, including Dad's... more

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Got a question for Margaret Cho? Ask it here.

The indomitable Margaret Cho will be visiting us here at Current TV on August 20th.... more

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The FCC and the Emperors of TV have no clothes

Big Media and their sock puppets at the FCC have engineered a massive theft of public resources -- the giveaway of more than ten thousand newly minted digital TV channels to themselves. They have finagled the regulatory process to exclude community groups, unions, local entrepreneurs, women, African Americans, Native Americans, Latinos, colleges, universities or local government entities from even being able to ask about getting channels for themselves, and imposed a news blackout on their evil deed. Their theft is settled law now, to be consummated in February 2009.
Their only fear is that the nationwide movement for media justice will awaken in time to inform and arouse the American people as it did 2003. A parade of pot-bellied naked corporate thieves are hoping nobody notices the crime scene or their progress to and from it, until it's too late.

“...this is a country of laws, as the elite like to tell us, and FCC decisions, no matter how transparently undemocratic and crazy, are indeed the law.”

Every now and then, the powers that be overreach themselves with a move so transparently greedy, self-serving and counter to the public interest that even with platoons of pundits and absolute control over the media they know they are absolutely unable to publicly justify themselves. One such moment occurred in 2003, when the Federal Communications Commission gave the green light to any of the half dozen Big Media corporations to own virtually all the TV and radio stations in any US market, along with its daily newspapers.

The people who made this decision, and those they made it for were not stupid people. They knew it was utterly impossible to craft any reasonable “it's for your own good” explanation for unbridled monopoly in media that an ordinary citizen, no matter how conservative, how far to the right, could listen to without laughing out loud. So they just shut up. After all, this is a country of laws, as the elite like to tell us, and FCC decisions, no matter how transparently undemocratic and crazy, are indeed the law. ***continues, click link to read more***Big Media and their sock puppets at the FCC have engineered a massive theft of public... more