February 10, 2012
by L. Brent Bozell III
Super Bowl XLVI was a good football game, marred once again by the bohemian elite at NBC. NBC could have prevented, but failed to stop, the broadcast of a female rapper "flipping the bird" at 114 million viewers during Madonna's halftime show. It was another "fleeting expletive" of the hand-gesture variety, and somehow, despite elaborate [...]
February 24, 2011
by Russell Shaw
On the eve of the last Super Bowl, two men were discussing the great American ritual of watching football on television. The older man admitted that he just didn't do that anymore. In times past, he said, he'd seen his share of TV football, but twelve or fifteen years earlier he'd become aware that his [...]
February 15, 2011
by Zoe Romanowsky
Bloomberg BusinessWeek ran a rather unromantic Valentine's Day story -- a profile of AshleyMadison.com, the premier "dating" website for people looking for an adulterous affair. The online business, based in Toronto and expanding around the world, was conceived, launched, and is now run by Noel Biderman, a 39-year-old married father of two who believes that [...]
February 3, 2011
by Margaret Cabaniss
If it's Super Bowl season, it must be time to talk about what ads did -- and didn't -- make the $3 million commercial cut. Last year, all the fuss was about the ad with Tim Tebow and his mom (which turned out to have such a gentle pro-life message as to be lost on [...]
January 26, 2010
by Margaret Cabaniss
It's just not the Super Bowl without controversial advertising! But this year's most talked-about ad is coming from an unlikely source: A national coalition of women's groups called on CBS on Monday to scrap its plan to broadcast an ad during the Super Bowl featuring college football star Tim Tebow and his mother, which critics say is [...]
