Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)

• Why Doesn't MTV Want To Talk About Its 25th Birthday?
  Because it's really hard to be hip when you were born seven years before the center of your target audience! Also, it's the 25th anniversary of the cable channel, and MTV is now a brand, not a channel. Funny, that's what the head of the New York Times said a couple of years back.... (USA Today)
• Are Men An Endangered Species When It Comes To Local News Anchors?
  In the 1970s, we started to see the growth of women sitting at the anchor desk of local television news, usually with a handsome man, providing a mom 'n' dad pairing to head up the family news. Thirty years later, there's some question (according to the Washington Post, anyway, as to whether there is a spot for men left as local anchors. Is it because viewers like women better, are they better anchors, are they part of a cost-cutting strategy? Provocative reading.
• Are Paris Hilton's Lips Obscene? Or At Least Indecent? Or Just Plain Offensive?
  Apparently not. The FCC has decided (or it least it seems they have decided) that it's enough for broadcasters to bleep out naughty words from television shows. They don't have to also pixilate out their lips. What a relief. Though in some cases (see the headline) it might not be such a bad idea. (Broadcast & Cable)
  
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