PAUL KRUGMAN on Rupert Murdoch (The New York Times)
If Mr. Murdoch does acquire The Journal, it will be a dark day for America's news media - and American democracy. If there were any justice in the world, Mr. Murdoch, who did more than anyone in the news business to mislead this country into an unjustified, disastrous war, would be a discredited outcast. Instead, he's expanding his empire.
Hey, Marty... We grow our bears BIG here in Michigan, I'm tellin' ya...
Actually, it's a Sugar Bear hot air balloon landing on a golf course from the Field of Flight Air Show and Balloon Festival here in Battle Creek. Lots of cool balloons, barnstormers and, of course, the Blue Angels and other military aircraft. Colorful and occasionally LOUD as the jets fly low over the city. Good old fashioned red white and blue fun...
Been haunting cheap tickets.com, trying to figure out the 'best' (least expensive and least troublesome) day & time for the big trip to PA.
Tonight, Sunday:
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a RERUN'Shark', then a RERUN'Cold Case', followed by a RERUN'Without A Trace'.
NBC opens the night with 'Dateline', followed by the FRESH (but pre-taped & shredded to 1 hour)'Concert For Diana'RERUN'Law & Order', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a (R) 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then a RERUN'Desperate Housewives', followed by a RERUN'Brothers & Sisters'.
The CW offers an old 'Reba', followed by another old 'Reba', then a RERUN'7th Heaven', followed by a RERUN'Supernatural'.
Faux has a FRESH'The Loop', followed by a RERUN'King Of The Hill', then a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by another FRESH'The Loop', then a RERUN'Family Guy', followed by still another FRESH'The Loop'.
MY has the movie 'Double Team', followed by the movie 'Run Ronnie Run!'.
AMC offers the movie 'Hard To Kill', followed by the movie 'Batman', then the movie 'Batman', again.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 4 Parent Hood;
[1:00 PM] The Gil Mayo Mysteries - Episode 5;
[2:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 5 Ioan Gruffudd and Jessie Wallace;
[3:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 3;
[3:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 4;
[4:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 5;
[4:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 6;
[5:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 7;
[5:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 8;
[6:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 4 Parent Hood;
[7:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 5 The Arrow and the Optic;
[8:00 PM] Calendar Girls - Calendar Girls;
[10:00 PM] My Husband Is Gay - My Husband Is Gay;
[11:00 PM] Calendar Girls - Calendar Girls;
[1:00 AM] My Husband Is Gay - My Husband Is Gay;
[2:00 AM] Robin Hood - Ep 5 The Arrow and the Optic;
[3:00 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 1 Sheffield;
[3:30 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 2 Ireland;
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 11 Detling;
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 12 Newark;
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 12 Walters;
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 13 Fry;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News - BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', followed by 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie', then the movie 'Joe Dirt'.
FX has the movie 'Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story', followed by the movie 'Starsky & Hutch', then 'Rescue Me'.
History has 'Ice Road Truckers', 'Alaska: Dangerous Territory', and a FRESH'Ice Road Truckers'.
IFC -
[06:10 AM] IFC Short Film Showcase;
[07:10 AM] Monster in a Box;
[08:45 AM] The Last Days of Chez Nous;
[10:30 AM] Celebrity;
[12:30 PM] Monster in a Box;
[02:00 PM] The Last Days of Chez Nous;
[03:40 PM] Celebrity;
[05:40 PM] Monster in a Box;
[07:15 PM] Super Troopers;
[09:00 PM] The Young Americans;
[10:50 PM] Undertow;
[12:45 AM] Face;
[02:35 AM] The Young Americans;
[04:20 AM] Undertow. (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has the movie 'It Waits', followed by the movie 'The Mummy Returns'.
Rocker Joan Jett warms up before a baseball game between the Florida Marlins and the Atlanta Braves on Saturday, June 30, 2007 in Miami. Jett, who will play in a post-game concert, threw out one of the ceremonial first pitches.
Photo by Wilfredo Lee
A US newscaster refused to lead her program with a story about Paris Hilton, arguing she was fed up with media attention given to the controversial Hollywood socialite.
Mika Brzezinski tore her script to pieces on the air and then put another one through a shredder Friday morning when she was asked by her editors on MSGOP cable channel to lead the newscast with an item about Hilton.
Footage documenting her revolt is now making the rounds on the Internet, and has since been viewed on the video exchange website YouTube more than 870,000 times.
Singer Nancy Wilson, performs at Carnegie Hall in New York on the occasion of the celebration of her 70th Birthday on Friday June 29, 2007.
Photo by Rick Maiman
Actress Natalie Portman and other celebrities descended on a Rwandan wildlife park on Saturday to name 23 baby mountain gorillas and help efforts to conserve the highly endangered species.
Decimated by conflict and poaching in the volatile region, numbers have begun creeping up again in recent years thanks to Rwandan conservation efforts.
Portman named her baby gorilla "Ahazaza" (future), while conservationist Jack Hanna chose "Ibanga" (secret) for his.
The celebrities were invited to the ceremony to help raise awareness of efforts to ease the animals' plight and paid $500 to come to the park, the standard fee for foreign tourists.
Pianist Ramsey Lewis performs at the Nancy Wilson, Swingin' 70th Birthday Party at Carnegie Hall in New York on Friday June 29, 2007.
Photo by Rick Maiman
A start-up wireless company has proposed a high-stakes debate with Verizon Communications before U.S. regulators considering how the government should conduct an auction sell-off of valuable wireless spectrum.
Frontline Wireless asked the Federal Communications Commission to hold the debate early next month as the agency weighs competing proposalsbribes lobbying offers for the auction 700 megahertz band airwaves.
The rules of the auction will be crucial designed for major players such as Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc. that want to bolster their networks, as well as for dozens of regional and local players. Verizon wireless is owned by Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group Plc.
The airwaves are being "returned" by broadcasters as they "move" from analog to digital signals early in 2009 and are considered valuable because they can travel long distances and penetrate thick walls. The auction is seen as the last opportunity for a new player to enter the wireless market.
Screenwriter and director Kevin Smith smiles after purchasing two iPhones, Friday, June 29, 2007, at the Apple store at The Grove shopping center in Los Angeles.
Photo by Damian Dovarganes
A Hong Kong Chinese artist has won Japan's first "Nobel Prize of Manga" for artists working in the comic book genre abroad.
"Sun Zi's Tactics" by Lee Chi Ching, 43, beat out 145 other entries from 26 countries and regions around the world, Japan's Foreign Ministry said Friday in a statement.
Lee, along with three runners-up, have been invited to Japan for a 10-day visit. They will receive their trophies at a ceremony in Tokyo next Monday.
The International Manga Award - which manga enthusiast Foreign Minister Taro Aso likened to a "Nobel Prize" when he first proposed it last year - was launched earlier this year as another step in Japan's efforts to harness the power of pop culture diplomacy.
In the drizzling rain at Arlington National Cemetery, thousands of grieving patriots solemnly watch as the pall bearers - Iron Man, the Black Panther, Ben Grimm and Ms. Marvel - carry a casket draped with an American flag.
Yes, folks, Captain America is dead and buried in the latest issue of Marvel Comics, due on newsstands the morning after Independence Day. After 66 years of battling villains from Adolf Hitler to the Red Skull, the red, white and blue leader of the Avengers was felled by an assassin's bullet on the steps of a New York federal courthouse.
Writer Jeph Loeb has been busy working through the stages of grief in the most recent issues of Marvel Comics. A book centered on Wolverine dealt with denial; one with the Avengers covered anger; and Spider-Man battled depression.
"Part of it grew out of the fact that we are a country that's at war, we are being perceived differently in the world," Loeb said. "He wears the flag and he is assassinated - it's impossible not to have it at least be a metaphor for the complications of present day."
Vivica A. Fox called a state patrol officer a "racist white cop" during her drunken driving arrest and repeatedly failed sobriety tests, according to an official report.
The 42-year-old actress, who is black, was pulled over in March after passing a California Highway Patrol officer who said her Cadillac was doing 80 mph and weaving in its lane on the Hollywood Freeway.
The officer noticed that Fox's eyes were red and watery and that she had a "strong odor" of alcohol, according to the report. After she failed sobriety tests, he arrested Fox for investigation of driving under the influence.
"Fox began to walk away, yelling at my partner, 'Brother, help a sister, are you going to let this racist white cop do this. ... Well, are you?'" according to the report.
A former national laboratory worker has admitted that she used government computers to access the e-mail account of Linkin Park lead singer Chester Bennington and hacked into a cell phone company's Web site to obtain his phone number.
Devon Townsend, 28, appeared Friday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert Scott and pleaded guilty to charges including stalking and unlawful access to stored communications.
Townsend, who worked in Sandia National Laboratories' technology and manufacturing group, used lab computers to access private information about Bennington and his wife, Talinda, from January 2006 to November 2006.
Completing a commission from Cheez-It brand crakers, Troy Landwehr puts the finishing touches on a sculpture of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, carved from a block of cheddar cheese weighing more than 600 pounds, Friday, June 29, 2007, in Little Chute, Wis.
Photo by Michael P. King
Warner Music Group is taking on YouTube at its own game, with the launch of its first free-to-view Web 2.0 video jukebox.
Rhino TV -- centered on Warner's catalog brand, which recently rolled out internationally -- is the first "digital hub" to be launched through Warner Music International's strategic partnership with digital services provider Premium TV. It will feature video content from Warner acts including Madonna, R.E.M. and Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Videos will be available free for streaming, but the site aims to monetize content in multiple ways. Videos will be preceded by in-stream and banner advertising -- in-stream advertisers on the beta site include Domino's Pizza and Cisco -- and consumers will be able to pay for video downloads that the beta site prices at 1.99 pounds ($3.97). An online store will sell downloads, CDs and merchandise as well, and Warner anticipates additional income from syndicating content to other sites and enabling consumers to embed videos in social networking pages.
A giraffe keeps cool next to a fountain in an Athens zoo June 26, 2007 as temperatures soared to 46 degrees Celsius (114.8 Fahrenheit) in parts of southeast Europe. Greece, which has seen some of the highest temperatures, is set to record its hottest ever June.
Photo by Yannis Behrakis
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