Wednesday, April 07, 2004

Porno For Rangers

Cable television, meanwhile, which has found late-night lineups with "adult programming" highly profitable, is unlikely to budge, and such companies have powerful friends.

Brian Roberts, the CEO of Comcast, which offers "hard-core" porn on the Hot Network channel (at $11.99 per film in Baltimore), was co-chair of Philadelphia 2000, the host committee that brought the Republican National Convention to Philadelphia. In February, the Bush campaign honored Comcast President Stephen Burke with "Ranger" status, for agreeing to raise at least $200,000 for the president's re-election effort.

And they left out Rupert Murdoch, whose holdings include a satellite television network offering a wide variety of (hetero-only) porn.

I guess this is understandable, since the "adult entertainment" business is capitalism in its purest form.

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