Instead, his revelation spurred every network, newspaper blog and cheesy entertainment program to new heights: he was the lead piece on "The Insider" on Friday, ahead of Clay Aiken's new baby and the pop singer John Mayer, shirtless in a hot tub and far from his latest flame, Jennifer Aniston.
Applied to media, this would mean that a particular media outlet (cable network, newspaper Web site, or blog) is simultaneously fair and balanced and hopelessly biased, and that a newspaper is simultaneously dead and alive until they are examined; then they become one or the other.
The company, controlled by Rupert Murdoch, owns a variety of media assets, including the 20th Century Fox film studio, the Fox broadcast network, newspapers and cable channels.
The centerpiece of the changes effectively makes it easier for networks, newspaper publishers, radio station owners and others to buy local television stations.
Of course, such accusations are nonsense -- these are powerful people who own cable news networks, newspaper conglomerates, radio airwaves and gerrymandered Congressional districts.
C1 TV Network-Newspaper Deal Canada's second-largest private network, CanWest Global Communications, said it would buy about half the country's larger dailies from Conrad Black, who gains a seat on CanWest's board and becomes its second-largest shareholder.
"Everybody in Portugal is talking about it — the major networks, newspapers," Mr. Pires said.
Instead, they said that Mr. Bush was considering debate proposals from 53 organizations, including television networks, newspapers and Web sites.
Most shareholders now see that television networks, newspapers, film studios, music labels and other sundry assets add little value by sharing a parent.
The role is not unlike the way agencies have long connected advertisers to offline media like television networks, newspapers and magazines.
Many conservatives regarded the major networks, newspapers, and newsweeklies — the mainstream media — as liberal arbiters, incapable of covering without bias the civil-rights movement in the South or Barry Goldwater's Presidential campaign.
