YOUTUBE YANKS CONTROVERSIAL DAVID BOWIE VIDEO

The Internet is often thought of as an anarchic medium where content can be created and presented without restriction. That may well be the way David Bowie viewed it — before his latest music video, “The Next Day,” which also features Marion Cotillard and Gary Oldman, was yanked off YouTube on Wednesday. Bowie fans found […]

CATHOLIC LEAGUE’S PRAISE OF DELTA DOESN’T FLY

Delta Airlines has denied that it yanked its advertising from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart after receiving complaints from the Catholic League about Stewart’s joking remark last month that “perhaps women could protect their reproductive organs from unwanted medical intrusions with vagina mangers.” (He was satirically criticizing Fox News for denouncing the network’s pursuit […]

CATHOLIC LEAGUE TO WAGE WAR ON JON STEWART

Jon Stewart’s comedic commentary taking to task the Fox News Network for referring to various “wars” on everything from Christmas to chocolate milk but having nothing to say about the “war on women, (i.e. recent efforts to reimpose discriminatory rules affecting women in the workplace) has ignited the anger of Bill Donahue, president of The […]