Lost Beatles tape airs on BBC radio

" A Beatles interview from the 1960s in which John Lennon and Paul McCartney discussed the way they composed songs together was broadcast on British radio Tuesday after it was found in a film can in a damp garage...

Rush Limbaugh: Worth $400 Million?

Let's see if Drudge Report is right on this breaking news." The American broadcast industry is rocked, realigned and blasted into a new orbit, yet again, by Rush Limbaugh, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. In what is being described as an unprecedented radio contract,...

Lost Beatles interview to air on BBC radio

I spent the last ten minutes failing to dream up a Beatles-lyric headline for this story (left on the cutting room floor: "I should have known better that the Beatles hadn't finished releasing new material"). Post...

Supreme Court of Canada Unanimously Defrosts Libel Chill

Good news for free speech supporters in Canada:"The media should not live in constant fear of facing a libel suit every time a provocative commentary is published or broadcast, the Supreme Court of Canada said yesterday in a major ruling won by controversial Vancouver radio...

NBC: Beijing Olympics Online Video Available Only After TV Broadcast

Sports fans in the world over had started rejoicing that finally we could do away with the lame soft-focus athlete stories and parochial commentary from NBCU with this Olympics: Yes, the company will have 2,200...

G.ho.st between Ramallah and Modiin

The Israeli-Gaza truce is a sort of ‘cooperation’ between enemies. But here, for a change, is a story of a cooperation between friends. Palestinians from Ramallah and Israelis from the town of Modiin works as...

Olympic networks win right to broadcast from Tiananmen Square

All TV networks planning to broadcast from the Beijing Olympics this summer received the rights today, after paying a rights-holders fee, to broadcast live from Tiananmen Square during the games."China's Olympic...

Kidnap negotiator -- a "lucrative" career in the Philippines?

Some unscrupulous government officials and private citizens have been reportedly cashing in as negotiators in many of the past kidnapping cases in the Philippines--allegedly jacking up to 100 percent the ransom...

Australia ire over chef's f-words

"Australia ire over chef's f-words Ramsay is notorious for his expletive-filled tirades The oaths and expletives for which colourful British TV...

Deputies nab snoozing break-in suspect in Comstock

"Deputies nab snoozing break-in suspect in Comstock AP Posted: 2008-06-16 09:13:35 COMSTOCK, Mich. (AP) - Kalamazoo County sheriff's deputies arrested a suspected burglar they say ransacked a home, stacked electronic equipment outside and then fell asleep on a couch back...

McCain Townhall Live on Fox - Tonight

  John McCain will be live on fox with a town hall meeting tonight at 7 pm ET "Please tune into The Fox News Channel tonight at 7PM EDT to watch the first 2008 Presidential Town Hall, broadcast from Federal...

Radical Islam: "Insult to Free Speech"

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorA Canadian who takes exception to Canada's Free Speech, certainly has not witnessed the horrors of repressed speech as the world is full of detractors to free...

Wanted: 'A $100,000 Anthem': CBC

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorOur Canadian Anthem is gone, but not forgotten, an Anthem that can't be sung, for there are no words, but hyme'd universally by all Hockey Fans. An Anthem most Canadians...

Euro MTV Fined $485k for 'Extensive Offensiveness'

Remember Aphex Twin?  For one, I can't believe that MTV is getting fined almost $500,000 for playing a video from, oh, I don't know...nine years ago. But, then again, after watching the first nine seconds of...

Chimney Collapse Injures Firefighters

"COLUMBUS, Ohio — Two firefighters were injured early Thursday as they battled flames in an east side home.The fire inside a vacant duplex on Burt Street started shortly after 1:30 a.m., 10TV's TinoRamos reported.Two firefighters were trapped inside the home when the...

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