critizing distinguished writer/journalist Kurt Anderson for a rather bold statement:

»Nothing has really replaced magazines in this sense -- there is no white-hot intellectual/creative center of the Net, media-wise, and there wasn't even during the late '90s.«

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J.C. Penney Co. says it will pull a TV commercial that showed a mother encouraging her daughter to dress more provocatively. The commercial showed a teen-age girl trying on low-cut, midriff-baring jeans only to be interrupted by her mother. "You're not going to school dressed like that, are you?" th...

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Wie aus einer mir von "Unbekannt" zugegangenen e-mail hervorgeht sei es kein Wunder, dass die gestrige Meldung über ungebildete Highschool Kinder ausgerechnet von CBS sei. Angeblich stünde CBS für Controlled By Satan. Ich kann der Argumentation zwar nicht ganz folgen bzw. versteh den Zusammenh...

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