BBC refuses to televise Crufts dog show
For the first time in more than 40 years, the BBC will not televise Britain’s biggest dog show. BBC officials said Friday that the network had suspended coverage of the 2009 Crufts show “pending...
View ArticlePETA asks network to drop dog show
PETA sent a letter to the president of USA Network today, urging the network to cease showing the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, sponsored by the American Kennel Club. The letter requested that USA...
View ArticleSupport seems thin for dumping Westminster
PETA’s suggestion that the USA Network discontinue its broadcast of the Westminster Dog Show — on the grounds that the show reinforces unhealthy breed standards — doesn’t seem to be garnering a lot of...
View ArticleWhere there’s smoke, there’s … smoke
My posting of an Atlanta TV station’s “expose” of the Humane Society of the United States — and my labeling of it as shabby journalism — has led to the predictable spate of comments from HSUS-haters....
View ArticleWho invented Facebook?
Who really invented Facebook? It has been the subject of a debate I never followed, multiple boring lawsuits, and a movie I never saw. Yet I, of all people, now know the answer. It was dogs. In...
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