Subject: Media and Broadcasting Policy

• Knee 'em, Gamecocks!

  The New York Times reports that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is going mining for new fines by trolling broadcasts of live sporting events and other spectacles where coaches, fans, players and performers may have uttered forbidden expletives picked up by microphones. This, of course, will likely bankrupt the participating schools in last season's classic gridiron battle that pitted Awfuckit State against the University of Calico Cocksuckers.

  July 13, 2006

• Your I.O.U. for a Coupon for a Future TV Converter Box is in the Mail

  Frequent listeners of Le Show on KCRW (or podcast ... or satellite ... or short-wave radio) know that host Harry Shearer has long had a bug up his ass about broadcast television's midnight Feb. 19 switch from analog to digital signals. Shearer's tales of looming digital woe are generally summed up in a segment he calls "Digital Wonderland." Using anecdotal evidence, Mr. Burns makes the bigger picture point that the Federal Communications Commission-shepherded switc

  January 6, 2009

• Telcom Critics Could Have Issues With Obama Pick

  A telecommunications executive today resigned from his director's seat at Newport Beach-based Mindspeed Technologies to work at the White House as Barack Obama's director of presidential personnel.Obama can thus expect heavy scrutiny from net-neutrality advocates fearful of Donald H. Gips' closeness to power. Neutrality proponents, who include Google, warn that telecom companies are heavily lobbying U.S. politicians to impose a tiered service model at the expense of other companies and the gener

  January 16, 2009

• Aussie and Hairy It

  March 28, 2002

• Why Does Daystar Hate Jesus?

  The religious broadcaster fighting for KOCE is already under federal investigation for abuse of the airwaves

  July 14, 2005

• 59 Reasons Why Bush Sucks

  Why youd have to be a freaking idiot to vote for this guy

  October 7, 2004

• Burning Bush

  March 4, 2004

• Jesus, Meet Michael Powell

  February 26, 2004

• High Frequency

  January 22, 2004

• Gaddi Damn it

  November 22, 2001

• The Jesus Virus

  March 11, 1999

• The Year in Cyberspace

  January 7, 1999

• No More Procrastinating On That Boob Tube Upgrade, K?

  When someone from the Federal Communications Commission called the newsroom this morning, I was hoping it was because one of us Weekly-ings were being fined for indecency or something cool like that. Nope. The gub'ment was just checking in to make sure our readers knew about the final, nationwide switch to digital TV happening on Friday,  June 12.Well, readers, did you know about it?If you've still got a crusty old television, it won't really work after the 12th, as all "full-powered televi

  June 5, 2009

• As FCC Weighs Net Neutrality, McCain Tosses in Monkey Wrench

  ​As the Federal Communications Commission meets today to develop some "rules of the road" for the Internet, U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Sarah Palin) has thrown up a roadblock.The bitter, defeated presidential nominee today introduced legislation that would block the FCC from creating new "net neutrality" rules.

  October 22, 2009

• Gwar

  November 19, 2009