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...deal goes through, we'll see what Murdoch can do to bring DirecTV closer to the American mainstream. From a consumer perspective, it already delivers more channels, from more places, than can be dreamed of, but it's a bit on the expensive side and isn't always available in big-city urban thickets. More Fox channels won't necessarily make it more attractive, but Murdoch's considerable marketing muscle might...
...Murdoch's News Corp. is making serious headway in its talks to acquire what Murdoch considers the missing piece in his global media empire: DirecTV and its 10 million U.S. subscribers, currently owned by Hughes Electronics (which is in turn owned by General Motors, which makes more sense if you think of Hughes as what it used to be - a defense contractor...
...present, of course, the phone-line/cable-line/satellite race for world market share is far from won. And 10 million subscribers makes DirecTV the biggest satellite TV provider in the U.S. but still a boutique business when it comes to all the TV sets in the land. But Murdoch, whose slate of Fox TV products currently rides the backs of rival delivery systems, is eagerly looking for a friendly platform from which he can pump as many Fox channels into American homes - with their due dose of placement and promotion - as he can dream up. And DirecTV fits that bill...
...corruption of our pop culture, everyone talks about Eminem and Li'l Kim and Limp Bizkit. Nobody talks about the fact that every year, according to The New York Times, Americans spend $4 billion buying or renting pornographic videos. Or the fact that the 8.7 million subscribers to DirecTV buy nearly $200 million in pay-per-view adult entertainment, while one in five of AT&T 's broadband cable customers plop down 10 bucks a film to watch "real, live all-American sex--not simulated by actors." Or the fact that almost half of all hotel rooms across the country...
Today, everything is available, to everyone, at any time. Every deviant desire, dark fantasy and sordid dream can be realized, at a reasonable price. Forget "normalizing homosexuality"--something the Right has been worrying over since the advent of gay liberation. Today, the Internet and DirecTV are normalizing everything, from group sex to bestiality to darker things that decency forbids mentioning. And as for pedophilia--why, any erotic website worth its salt promises links to images of the "barely legal," "young teen sluts," and all the rest. Today, Nabokov's Humbert would need not be a tragic figure; instead, he could...