All Posts Tagged With: "television"
Going to Graceland
A recent trip to Memphis took me to Elvis Presley’s famed home, Graceland. Touring Presley’s mansion and its grounds is fascinating for fans of his music, and the Presley estate has done a marvelous job in capturing his music and life. But visiting Graceland mostly interested me as an economist. Walking through the home of [...]
4Jan2012 | Andrew P. Morriss | 9 comments | ContinuedCan't Find A Morning Show
I don’t know if morning shows are getting worse or I’m getting less tolerant, but I just can’t find a news program to watch during my ritualistic morning caffeine fix. FoxNews has some good information, but unfortunately the informative part of the program is only about 2 mins at the beginning of each hour. There [...]
3Nov2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 2 comments | ContinuedJeffersonians in Space
Some of us occasionally have stumbled on a television show actually worth watching, only to see it canceled perhaps after just a season or two on the air. For defenders of freedom and individualism, it was even worse. In 2002 a science-fiction show with unmistakable libertarian leanings wound up lasting only four months. “Firefly” premiered [...]
1Apr2006 | Raymond J. Keating | 1 comment | ContinuedFrankenstein Television
The televisions that Americans have loved for over 50 years will soon become obsolete. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has mandated that the analog TV broadcast signals be turned off in 2006. After that date all TV broadcasts will be “digital.” This mandate appears to be at odds with the wishes of the American people. [...]
1Feb2003 | Michael Heberling | 6 comments | ContinuedTrust No One Including The X-Files?
I have two favorite moments from The X-Files. In one of the television episodes (“Arcadia,” which aired in 1999), FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) go undercover in a planned residential community. Posing as the Petries—that’s right, same names as Rob and Laura from the old Dick Van Dyke Show—they [...]
1Jun2002 | Raymond J. Keating | 0 comments | ContinuedMoney & Power: The History of Business
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. • 2001 • 274 pages • $27.95 Reviewed by John Hood Television can be not only entertaining but educational, as long as you are not seeking great depth or elaborate argumentation. That means that it’s possible to adapt excellent writing for television but not the reverse. In Money & Power: [...]
1May2002 | Howard Means | 0 comments | ContinuedObscenity: The Case for a Free Market in Free Speech
Mr. Harris, tfharris@HiWAAY.net, is the news librarian for a major daily newspaper in Alabama. Despite the unambiguous language of the First Amendment, speech—of all kinds—has been regulated by government—at all levels—throughout the history of the United States. The first federal attempt to circumvent the First Amendment’s prohibition of laws “abridging the freedom of speech, or [...]
1Sep1996 | T. Franklin Harris Jr. | 1 comment | ContinuedWhy Mass Media Mergers Are Meaningless
Mr. Thierer is the Walker Fellow in Economic Policy with The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., and author of the series, “A Policy Maker’s Guide to Deregulating Telecommunications.” Time Warner Inc.’s $8 billion acquisition of Turner Broadcasting System Inc., along with other recently announced alliances of media giants—Walt Disney and Capital Cities/ABC Inc., Westinghouse Electric [...]
1Jan1996 | Adam D. Thierer | 0 comments | Continued-
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