FCC: Fine Comcast For "Fake News"

The FCC is saying Comcast should be fined $4000 for airing a video news release promoting "Nelson's Rescue Sleep" without telling viewers that the commercial was funded by the manufacturer.

Comic Pulled Over "Goon" Theme

Yes, it was the Chicago Tribune which pulled the Get Fuzzy strip.
I guess they don't want to offend mobsters.

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Ride The SLUT!

That would be the South Lake Union Trolley.

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MTV Series is a Deodorant Ad

MTV's new series The Gamekillers is really just an ad for Axe.

Unilever says it believes enough consumers got the connection. After the show aired, executives at Edelman, Axe's public-relations firm, scoured the Internet, searching blogs and Web sites. In less than three months, the "Gamekillers" group page on MySpace had attracted 75,000 friends; the "Gamekillers" Web site, which also tied the show to Axe Dry, attracted 1.4 million unique visitors. Based on that, Unilever believes that the show helped its related ad campaign boost Axe Dry's sales by 60% in 2006.

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Quote of the week

"I'm O.J. Simpson. How am I going to think that I'm going to rob somebody and get away with it?" - in an interview with the L.A. Times

Leave Britney Alone!

This is why God invented YouTube:

The Tenor of His Time

There won't be another Pavarotti.