Young male viewers are continuing their exodus from network TV, according to a new report from a top media shop that reveals another lesser publicized, but equally profound shift appears to be taking place in the TV universe. Slightly older men are actually watching more network TV.
Contrary to perceptions that the growth in U.S. ad spending is coming from electronic media, print media--thanks to a surprising boost from local newspapers--expanded its market share during 2003.
King County Executive Ron Sims had to race ahead with his plan to challenge state law prohibiting gay marriage after the editor of The Stranger showed up at the courthouse on March 5 seeking a marriage license. Bob Young reports in The Seattle Times that gay marriage proponents wanted to have "hand-picked couples" challenge the law but feared the controversial author of the sex advice column Savage Love (pictured) might beat them to it.
Far more dangerous to Americans than the USA Patriot Act is the Bush administration's assault on another class of liberties, which Harvey A. Silverglate and Carl Takei define as "threshold rights." These include fair elections, the right of the accused to a public jury trial, separation of powers among the three branches of government, and the right to free expression. Once lost, the authors assert in The Boston Phoenix, "the only thing that stands between any of us and arbitrary imprisonment is the good will of the president, the attorney general, and the secretary of defense."
"When you're out there and you're living that fast life, you can never say what you wouldn't do," Falicia Blakely tells Mara Shalhoup in a jailhouse interview. Shalhoup reconstructs the events that led an 18-year-old to commit murder. The nude dancer was seduced by a club patron who bought diapers by the caseload for her baby and later insisted she sell herself to bring in cash. When her pimp made the ultimate demand, she delivered. The Creative Loafing Atlanta cover story is the first in a series.
Writing in Boston's Weekly Dig, Paul McMorrow tries to figure out why a book arguing that the Grand Canyon was created in the Great Biblical Flood is being sold in a park bookstore overseen by the National Park Service. "Nearly 80 years after Tennessee v. John Scopes supposedly made the world safe for science, militant creationism has returned with a vengeance," he writes. "And this time, it's seeking government sanction."
According to statistics released yesterday from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), U.S. music shipments from record companies to retail outlets declined 4.3 percent in 2003 and unit shipments declined 2.7 percent. Sounds bad, but compared to 2002, where music shipments declined 6.8 percent and unit shipments went down 7.8 percent, it seems like the decline rate is slowing down. The year 2003 was important for the recording industry, with record companies offering consumers the widest choice and variety of ways to access music, including through satellite radio and webcasting streams,exclusive release deals, different pricing strategies, new formats and value-added CD/DVD combinations in retail outlets.
Advertising sales and circulation executives across all magazines, including business and trade, hope advertisers and consumers read somewhere the news that the economy is on the mend. Till then, all parties concerned are advised patience and unity.
A spokesperson for the digital paper says it's obligated not to publish things that would offend "the reasonable sensibilities of our readers," Editor & Publisher reports. Rall believes the cartoon was dropped because of e-mail campaigns by conservatives. His award-winning cartoon appears in several AAN papers, including The Village Voice and Washington City Paper.
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