Just as National Geographic magazine is tackling obesity in a cover story called "The Heavy Cost of Fat," its younger sibling, National Geographic Kids, is being accused of contributing to the obesity problem by running ads for unhealthy food.

The Kerry-Edwards campaign Thursday launched a 30-second TV ad it says emphasizes the Democrats' plan to build a U.S. economy that works for families.

This was supposed to be the summer of new series for network television, where original programming would bloom, and those old-time summer schedules full of repeats would be relegated to the scrap heap of precable history.

Circulation scandals that have rocked the Tribune Co.'s Newsday and Spanish-language Hoy newspapers claimed the jobs of the publications' top two executives on Monday.

On "Larry King Live," Stewart says she'd like "to be out of this mess"; could forgo appeals process.

Chairman Les Moonves on the future of network TV, CBS's rep as "the geezer network," the FCC and Janet Jackson, TiVo...

To the casual observer, "snail mail" is doomed. Bills can be paid with a mouse click. Photographs, even lengthy PowerPoint presentations, arrive instantly by e-mail. But Pitney Bowes (PBI) doesn't believe it.

There is probably no quantifiable way to prove that Americans are an impatient breed. We want what we want, when we want it, and we're willing to pay for the privilege. Today, companies rake in millions--sometimes billions--giving people the ability to have sex on demand, sleep on demand, television on demand and technology on demand.

There are any number of indicators, economic and otherwise, that Silicon Valley is no longer the graveyard of broken dreams.

Clear Channel Radio plans to announce today that it will begin limiting the number of commercials its more than 1,200 stations can play, in a move that analysts say may ripple through the industry even before it takes effect on Jan. 1.