Dan Kennedy, on the nightmare that will be the Democratic Convention in Boston: “You could look it up (I don’t feel like it), but Media Log has predicted on at least several occasions that this July’s Democratic National Convention will be a five-alarm disaster for anyone who lives in, works in, or even thinks about… Continue reading

“Music labels are dragging their feet in licensing their songs to Apple Computer because they fear its long-promised European music download site will dominate the online business, industry insiders say. “The five main record labels are understood to be scared that Apple, which makes the iPod digital music player, will become as successful in Europe… Continue reading

Oh, brother. The travails of Bill Clinton, author. From the latest Publisher’s Lunch newsletter: Today’s wave of Bill Clinton stories comes by way of previews of a June Vanity Fair interview. The poor thing says, “I am literally hardly sleeping. I am working around the clock. I am killing myself because I want (my memoirs)… Continue reading

Holbert basically sums up Kerry’s problem (and the Democrats’).

“Now comes a document from the files of the Iraqi secret police, or Mukhabarat, dated March 28, 1992, and headed routinely, “In the Name of Allah, the Merciful and Compassionate.” It is a straightforward listing of contacts and “assets,” quite unsensational until it comes to the “Saudi front,” where we find the name “Osama bin… Continue reading