• Lessons from Martha and Mike (CBS MarketWatch)
    How the mighty have fallen! Who would have thought that the once powerful but now pitiful Martha Stewart would be convicted by a jury of her peers and face the prospect of prison?
  • Parties Seeking to Speak Language of Latino Voters (Los Angeles Times)
    An intense battle for Latino support in this fall's election got underway this week, as President Bush and a Democratic political group launched dueling Spanish-language television advertisements targeting a voting bloc that keeps growing in importance.
  • Ford Pulls Ad After Chrysler Letter (New York Times)
    The Ford Motor Company's latest advertisement for its Freestar minivan has disappeared faster than the foldaway seat feature it was promoting. Ford said last week that it had stopped running a commercial for its the minivan after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from its crosstown rival, Chrysler.
  • N.Y. Affiliate Pulls Martha Stewart Show (AP)
    Martha Stewart's syndicated television show, "Martha Stewart Living," is being pulled from CBS's New York affiliate following the domestic maven's stock conviction.
  • FCC Rejects Viacom Appeal of $27,500 Fine For Indecency (Dow Jones Business News)
    The Federal Communications Commission Friday refused to reconsider what could be a pivotal finding of indecency against a Michigan FM radio station owned by Infinity Broadcasting, a unit of Viacom Inc.
  • EchoStar Threatens to Drop CBS in Dispute (Associated Press)
    EchoStar Communications Corp. will drop CBS from its DISH Network in some cities rather than accede to demands of the network's owner, Viacom Inc., said Charles Ergen, EchoStar's chairman and chief executive.
  • Disney Critics Persist, Want Succession (Reuters)
    Walt Disney Co.'s critics on Thursday urged the company's board to plan for a successor to Chief Executive Michael Eisner, calling his removal from the chairmanship a cosmetic change that ignored an unprecedented shareholder protest.
  • Clear Channel to Pay Bubba Indecency Fine (Reuters)
    Radio giant Clear Channel Communications Inc. on Thursday said it would pay a $755,000 fine for airing indecent material by one of its former radio personalities, Bubba the Love Sponge.
  • Marketing to the Youngest Metrosexuals (New York Times)
    Doesn't it seem as though boys are - well, how does one put this? - smelling bad at ever younger ages? Procter & Gamble has come up with a new line of deodorants, hair gels, body washes, even scents, aimed at boys ages 8 to 16 - and at their nose-holding mothers.
  • For Mitchell, Another Task of Peacemaking (The New York Times)
    Former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell's crowning achievement had been brokering a peace settlement in Northern Ireland. This week, he jumped into another mess: The battle between the Walt Disney Co.'s management and its shareholders. The New York Times thinks he's going to need every bit of skill.
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