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Newspaper Decline Traced To Widespread Illiteracy
Written by Sherwood Ross Posted: 13 October 2009 10:06 Tne reason for the decline of newspaper circulation is that 42 million Americans are illiterate and roughly 50 million more are semi-literate, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Christopher Hedges says. What’s more, he adds, 80 percent of U.S. households last year did not buy a book.A “Lost” Fact in the “Rathergate” Mess — Part 1
Bernie Goldberg's Between Manhattan and Malibu Subscribe in a reader (BernardGoldberg.com) Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 at 7:58 pm A “Lost” Fact in the “Rathergate” Mess — Part 1 What seems like a long, long time ago Dan Rather was a very powerful force in American journalism. He not only was the anchorman of the CBS Evening News, he was also the face of the network’s renowned news division — the “Tiffany” network of bigger-than-life legends like Ed Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Eric Sevareid, Mike Wallace and many, many others. That was then. Now Dan Rather is suing the network that employed him for 44 years, asking for $70 million dollars in damages. Technically, the lawsuit is about a dry legal issue — breach of contract. But it is also about something much more personal to Rather: his legacy. It is a lawsuit, fundamentally, about saving Dan Rather’s reputation. That reputation took a turn for the worse back in 2004. As has been widely reported, just 55 days before a very close presidential election, Dan Rather and his producer Mary Mapes put a story on the weekday edition of 60 Minutes that brought on the media equivalent of World War III. There were accusations that Rather, Mapes, and maybe the entire CBS News Division had set out to deliberately destroy George W.Google forced to ID You
Google told to hand over millions of YouTube user details to Viacom in $1 billion case By Claudine Beaumont, Digital Channel Editor London Telegragh Last Updated: 4:01pm BST 03/07/2008 Google has been ordered to hand over the personal details of everyone who has ever watched a YouTube video, potentially threatening the privacy of tens of millions of internet users. The US court judgment is part of an ongoing legal battle between Google, which owns YouTube, and the content provider Viacom, which accuses Google of hosting copyright material on its popular video-sharing site. 'An Inconvenient Truth' has been viewed 1.5bn times on Youtube The ruling means that Google must now hand over a user log to Viacom, which will contain users' YouTube log-in details, the IP address of their computer (a unique code that identifies individual machines), plus details of all the video clips that user has viewed.Spielberg is not leaving DreamWorks: spokesman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Iconic Hollywood director Steven Spielberg is not leaving DreamWorks, his spokesman said on Tuesday, denying a report on the online edition of celebrity magazine Radar. "Radar's radar kind of bounced off an incorrect source," the spokesman said. Spielberg's relationship with DreamWorks' parent, Paramount, a unit of Viacom Inc, has been the subject of intense speculation in recent months.If you were offended by last night's VMAs...
MTV's parent company, Viacom has MTV listed as "for viewers 12 to 34." Knowing this they still put Russell Brand as the host. Even the first six minutes of his intro are inappropriate for a significant portion of that age range.Transformers 2!
When it comes to Transformers, there's definitely more to meet the eyes. Paramount and DreamWorks have ramped up development on a sequel to the summer blockbuster that will likely see Michael Bay back at the helm and Steven Spielberg again serving as executive producer, a DreamWorks rep confirmed Thursday. "Obviously you have a movie that's made as much money as Transformers has, you'd want to do another one," spokesman Marvin Levy told E!PICKETS PICK ON MOGUL HOMES
December 7, 2007 -- WEALTHY residents of the Upper East Side's most expensive blocks are disturbed over noisy, sign-waving protesters on the sidewalks outside their homes. The latest targets of the visiting activists are Phillippe Dauman, chairman of Viacom, and Henry Kravis, founder of the buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. In Dauman's case, a group denouncing violence in rap videos has picketed in front of his East 65th Street townhouse every Saturday since late October, with yet another one planned for tomorrow."Get Smart" spies victory at box office
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The new spy spoof "Get Smart" took an early lead at the weekend box office in North America, while Mike Myers bombed with his latest comedy "The Love Guru," according to first-day sales data issued on Saturday. "Get Smart," a remake of the '60s television series of the same name, earned an estimated $13.35 million on Friday, said distributor Warner Bros. Pictures.Admission Impossible? Redstone Calls Cruise 'Good Friend'
The starring role in the fourth installment of Mission Impossible is Tom Cruise's – should be choose to accept it. In a news conference in Seoul, media mogul Sumner Redstone, who once famously severed his relationship with the actor, said Tuesday he'd support casting him in the action franchise once again. "I consider Tom Cruise a great actor and a good friend," the Viacom chief told reporters.Tom Cruies is in for Mission Impossible 4!
Tom Cruise is reuniting with Sumner Redstone, CEO of Viacom and the mastermind behind the Mission: Impossible franchise! The pair met up at the Beverly Hills Hotel on March 27, two years after Redstone dropped Tom’s production company. “Tom will make M:I 4 once Paramount greenlights the script,” an insider tells Life & Style.
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