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...sites as megavideo.com and others. Even in America, distribution of cable shows is so inefficient that domestic viewers resort to piracy. The networks’ shocking response to such desperate demand for their products has been not to expand accessibility and profit, but to clamp down on it. Consider Viacom??s legal showdown with YouTube. And has Disney confused itself with DeBeers? The profound shortage of common sense in such moves—given that the fundamental driver of a content creator’s success is the size of its audience—is reflected...
Some of the names headlining the list for Harvard were United Technologies’ George David ’64-’65, Fannie Mae’s Franklin D. Raines ’71, Viacom??s Sumner M. Redstone ’43-’44 and Microsoft’s Steven A. Ballmer ’77, who is also a former Crimson editor...
...efforts in that country. (Meanwhile, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., blasted Sinclair’s decision as “a gross disservice to the public, and to the men and women of the United States Armed Forces.”) In February, Clear Channel Communications, Inc. dropped Viacom??s Howard Stern Show from its programming as part of its new Responsible Broadcasting Initiative (RBI), purportedly because the show was offensive and indecent. But the truth is that the show had been vulgar for many years, and the RBI came days after Stern first voiced his discontent with...
...almost unprecedented display of hypocrisy, the National Rifle Association (NRA) has, according to the Times, come forth alleging that the show’s producers will skirt election rules because their “plan to feature real political candidates campaigning would wrongly allow Showtime’s parent, Viacom??which has political action committees and lobbies in Congress” to unfairly promote their politics. Of course, it’s classic that the NRA, the infamously powerful lobby whose contributions sidle into the pockets of candidates willing to blindly oblige its wishes, has come...
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