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She survived Katie Couric and Tina Fey, searing scrutiny, rumors about her baby, anonymous taunts of "whack job" from those who once touted her credentials to be a heartbeat away. [...]
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 Katharine Weymouth, the publisher of The Washington Post, has drawn criticism for a plan to hold sponsored salons at her home. [...]
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Posted: July 04, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Katharine Weymouth, the publisher of The Washington Post, has drawn criticism for a plan to hold sponsored salons at her home.
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 Fans of the late great comedian Chris Farley, take comfort -- liberal radio host and MSNBC talking head Ed Schultz often bears an uncanny resemblance to one of Farley's best-known characters on "Saturday Night Live," that of Matt Foley, motivational speaker.
Schultz has been on a [...]
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The slowing growth in online advertising is pushing traditional ad agencies and Internet companies to work together.
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If Sarah Palin wanted to ram her political future like a P-boat into the hull of obscurity, couldn't she have waited a day or two and not upstaged Andy Roddick's exhilarating, inspiring, storybook Wimbledon victory?
This is a mistake Obama would never have made, because his satellite dish is always [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 9:10pm EDT
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Palin supporters are sharpening their knives I think.nbsp; From what I understand, thenbsp;post has been removed.nbsp; Via AllahPundit's Twitter feed:... . . . [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 9:09pm EDT
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Sarah Palin's ?bombshell? holiday announcement that she will resign as Governor of Alaska managed to trump Michael Jackson as the lead on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts Friday night as NBC's Chuck Todd predicted she will now make fundraising appearances for GOP candidates where she'll draw in ?car-wreck [...]
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Speculation about the reason behind Sarah Palin's surprise resignation as governor of Alaska has centered on her national political ambitions, possible unrevealed legal problems and maybe yet another pregnancy. More likely, Fox News or another TV network has made her an offer she can't refuse.
Why settle for being the [...]
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 This is about as disgusting as Palin Derangement Syndrome can get.
A blog just published at the Huffington Post is disgracefully titled "Palin Will Run In '12 On More Retardation Platform." The author, fiction and comedy writer Erik Sean Nelson (pictured right), actually wrote the following (readers [...]
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Number of comments: 12 From: Justine Bateman
Date: July 1, 2009
To: Karen Borell
Subject: Board Resignation
To All,
I am resigning my position as SAG National Board member and withdrawing my bid for re-election effective immediately.
I initially ran for the Board 3 years ago to affect a change in three areas: the almost non-functioning web-site, the poor agent-relations, [...]
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"I told you so" moments are pretty sweet — and thanks to Sarah Palin, now I've got one. Ten months to the day after her speech at the Republican National Convention, I would like for this woman to eat her words: I'm not a member of the permanent [...]
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On July 3, FoxNation.com
features the
headline "Obama
Busted Stacking Town
Hall
... What If Bush Had?" But the suggestion that Bush did not screen
town hall audiences or questions was refuted by Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace, who
said on the July
3 edition of Fox &
Friends [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 6:42pm EDT
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In the age of Twitter there is no such thing as a (Federal holiday) Friday afternoon news dump! Shortly after Sarah Palin announced from Wasilla, Alaska that she would be resigning as Governor effective July 25 our Twitter feed blew up with reactions from the [...]
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Nick Martin of Heat City in Phoenix has more information about the brouhaha over newspapers throughout the country running the same personal finance advice columns under different bylines.
 Martin writes, “From there, it wasn’t hard to find a page on the association’s website titled “Request Articles,” in [...]
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I love the Fourth of July.
Last year at this time, I was racing against the clock to release my first feature documentary, FREE FOR ALL! One Dude's Quest to Save Democracy, which explores corrupt elections in Ohio and how citizens can fight voter suppression.
The film begins and concludes [...]
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In today's Sarah Palin Derangement segment, CNN's Rick Sanchez actually asked Candy Crowley if the Alaska Governor is stepping down because she's pregnant again (h/t multiple NB readers): For more examples of PDS, please read Judy Silver's piece at The New Agenda. [...]
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There has been a heated debate this week about free information, starting with Malcolm Gladwell's review of Chris Anderson's book Free, in which Gladwell argues that free "fuel" plus costly "infrastructure" results in net losses for companies like YouTube, which will lose a half a billion dollars in [...]
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Today's dispatch from the Associated Press about the Chinese Communist government's attempt to require that a state-developed program called "Green Dam Youth Escort" be installed on all new personal computers sold in that country is all too typical of the awful reporting on this potentially frightening development.
I [...]
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Number of comments: 15 EXCLUSIVE: I'm told that CAA, UTA, and WME were in a feeding frenzy for the Oscar-winning actress, who has long been with manager J.J. Harris and didn't have an agent. She's one of the few Hollywood female stars who in the right vehicle could open a movie. [...]
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I'm watching Sarah Palin's fan club on Fox News--including the shameless Greta Van Susteren--trying to spin Palin's decision to step down as governor of Alaska midterm and it's remarkable how they can take straight Palin's phony-baloney explanation that she can do more for Alaska by working from outside the government [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 4:52pm EDT
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Polo has reached a deal to dress the U.S. Olympic team in Vancouver this winter and in London in 2012, with hopes to propel its brand amid a falloff in consumer spending.
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 4:46pm EDT
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The sudden passing of music icon and legend Michael Jackson was understandably a shock to much of the nation. Despite the shadows of scandal that plagued Jackson throughout his adult life, the public reverence for his abundant musical talents could not be stifled or quieted to any significant degree. [...]
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Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has just announced that she will be resigning the governorship on July 26th. The shocking decision has led to fierce speculation that she's paving the way for a run at the Presidency in 2012, but CNN's Rick Sanchez has another theory:
There have been a [...]
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President Obama before the taping of a weekly Radio Address in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 4:00pm EDT by NB Staff
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 The Washington Posts's first ever ?chief digital officer? came aboard the newspaper, where he also oversees Newsweek's online efforts, after three years of working diligently to help elect liberals and Democrats to office -- including Barack Obama. A short profile of Vijay Ravindran, in the July issue of [...]
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With the "Sitting Duck" award:
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) mdash; The National Society of Newspaper Columnists chose Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as the winner of ... . . . [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 3:35pm EDT
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True/Slant
NPR's Scott Simon gets an A from Lewis Grossberger for his "straightforward" presentation that's "full of Journalism 101 verities." Bob Woodward gets a failing grade for being "the epitome of the tired, droning, narcolepsy-inducing academic who inspired so many of us to cut our 8 [...]
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Watch as a New Jersey man is asked about the bear that attacked him over his salami sandwich.nbsp; No word yet if the bear actually yelled, "Hey, Boo-... . . . [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 1:05pm EDT
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Good reporting today:
"Absolutely, I'm disappointed," Weymouth said in an interview. "This should never have happened. The fliers got out and weren't ... . . . [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 12:59pm EDT
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I’m sitting outside on a lovely Friday morning, sipping a cup of tea and catching up on the news. What’s wrong with this picture? It’s the final Friday of Wimbledon and I’m reduced to either watching a pirated feed from a place where the broadcasters value live sports or following [...]
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 Somehow New York Times columnist Paul Krugman seems a terrible subject for a song.
Yet, Loudon Wainwright III, who admits to being a Times fan, performed "The Krugman Blues" in New York's Madison Square Park a few weeks ago: I read the New York Times, that's where I get the [...]
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A veritable buffet of buffoonery awaits the reader of the New York Times op-ed page today, from jaw-dropping unsubstantiated assertions (Brooks: "The ... . . . [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 12:41pm EDT
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New York magazine has found a way to make up for the advertising shortfall now that they've dropped adult and erotic advertisements. nbsp;This week's ... . . . [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 12:36pm EDT
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 12:30pm EDT
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TiVo was set back in its patent fight with Dish Network after a judge said the satellite-TV provider's customers could continue to use their digital video recorders.
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 12:18pm EDT
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Number of comments: 3 Hey, fellow armchair copyeditors, do you see anything wrong with this sentence at the Los Angeles Times website??Two senior Los Angeles Times editors were given new responsibilities today as part of an effort to create a 24-hour newsroom serving multiple mediums.?The blunder, of course, is the inappropriate use of ?mediums? [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 12:12pm EDT by Newsosaur
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A flurry of stories this week bit again at Hulu‘s hoped-for upcoming UK launch, again betting on a September launch. There’s little new here - We learned nine months ago the News Corp/NBC/Disney (NYSE: DIS) US online TV venture wanted to [...]
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Another day in 4th placenbsp;for Olbermann. MSNBC tried to counter their ratings slide with a special Michael Jackson show replacing Maddow at 9:00 an... . . . [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 12:00pm EDT
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From over on the National Review Institute's Media Malpractice blog.nbsp; An excerpt:
First lets focus on the two facts Stephanopoulos got blatantly w... . . . [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 11:30am EDT
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 On his Midday Open Thread Thursday, Daily Kos chief Markos Moulitsas found it very easy to associate the Republican Party ethos with spoiled tots:
I remember writing this about my son:
Right now, he's a Republican.
What's his is his, and he won't share.
What's mine [...]
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Polo has reached a deal to dress the U.S. Olympic team in Vancouver this winter and in London in 2012, with hopes to propel its brand amid a falloff in consumer spending.
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 11:22am EDT
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 Although almost eight months have passed since last year's elections, Palin Derangement Syndrome continues to manifest itself throughout America's press.
As NewsBusters' Mike Sargent reported Tuesday, Vanity Fair's Todd Purdum is gravely afflicted with the illness, and needs to see a team of doctors quickly if he ever [...]
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Rupert Murdoch spoke last week with TheStreet.com. In the interview the media tycoon denied interest in the New York Times, dissed Twitter, and dug into CNBC.
Question: Are you annoyed you don't own CNBC?
Murdoch: No
Question: Why not?
Murdoch: Because we're going to enjoy the competition. We have to [...]
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San Jose Mercury News Alison van Diggelen may be an unknown, but her interview subjects aren't. The citizen journalist has convinced Martin Sheen, Charlie Rose, Jack Welch and others to chat for her podcasts. Maureen Dowd, who agreed to an interview, says: "I thought it would be rude to say [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 11:06am EDT
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So how exactly does unlikely Pirate Bay bidder Global Gaming Factory X intend to profit from the scourge of the entertainment industry, and pay content owners? CEO Hans Pandeya, who offered SEK 60 million (£7.4 million) this week, tells paidContent:UK he wants to [...]
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 We're off for the day celebrating the birth of our nation, but we wanted to leave you with something today ... just in case you are chained to you desk.
This week, we were lucky enough to see Kansas State University professor and anthropologist Michael Wesch's presentation about [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 11:00am EDT
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Salon blogger Glenn Greenwald has rarely been one to avoid responding directly to his right wing critics. He's been on Hugh Hewitt' radio show on multiple occasions and has even appeared on Michael Savage's show. As an opinionated pundit, he believes that people like him should be willing to [...]
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 Time magazine writes about the first crop of graduates from a new master’s program at the Medill School of Journalism that aims to blend programming and journalism skills. Medill is the most prominent of several academic institutions that are dabbling with crossover programs that seek to [...]
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The revelation that the Washington Post had planned to hold corporate-sponsored "salons" with public officials at publisher Katharine Weymouth's house continues to have repercussions in media and political circles. The White House issued an ethics reminder to staff, while lawmakers and Post editors have tried to distance themselves from [...]
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Kennebec Journal Scott Wasser will help MaineToday Media CEO Richard Connor run the editorial departments of the Portland Press Herald, Kennebec Journal, Morning Sentinel, Coastal Journal and their related websites that MaineToday Media recently acquired from Seattle Times Co. Wasser keeps his title of vice president/news at Connor's Wilkes-Barre [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 10:41am EDT
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Satpal Brainch has been named president and managing director of CNBC Asia Pacific, according to a news release.
 Brainch, who has been CNBC’s chief financial officer, continues to report to president Mark Hoffman and will be based at CNBC Asia headquarters in Singapore effective July 6.
?Satpal has done [...]
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Associated Press A dozen equity owners, about a dozen freelancers and partner blogs are providing content for the Rocky Mountain Independent, led by former Rocky Mountain News journalists. [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 10:01am EDT
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MSNBC launched "Dr. Nancy" with Dr. Nancy Snyderman this week. The show, which airs at noon, will focus on health care issues.
Have you tuned in yet? Will you watch regularly? Vote in the poll, and check out a sampling clips from the show's first week below if you need [...]
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MSNBC launched "Morning Meeting" with Dylan Ratigan this week to liven up its 9-11 AM morning block.
Have you tuned in yet? Will you watch regularly? Vote in the poll, and check out a sampling clips from the show's first week below if you need help making your decision.
VOTE [...]
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SAN FRANCISCO -- The Justice Department confirmed on Thursday that it is conducting an antitrust investigation into a settlement of a class action between Google and groups representing authors and publishers.
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TheStreet.com: Michael Wolff has written in Vanity Fair that you want to buy The New York Times (NYT Quote), that you've planned out the deal in detail. Is that true?
Murdoch: No. That's nonsense. I don't think it's for sale anyway. I haven't even thought about it. But I would [...]
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DENVER — A Denver-focused daily Web magazine led by former staffers of the defunct Rocky Mountain News and others plans to officially launch Monday.
A dozen equity owners, about a dozen freelancers and partner blogs are providing content for the Rocky Mountain Independent.
One editor, Steve Foster, wouldn't say how [...]
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NEW YORK John Arthur has been forced out as Los Angeles Times executive editor.
Editor Russ Stanton explained in a posting at the paper's Web site, "John and I did not agree on the need for the just-announced masthead changes, and we differ on the best approach to reaching our [...]
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Modesto Bee Lynn Dickerson's duties will be divided between McClatchy's two other operational vice presidents. "We continue to restructure and transition to a new business model, one that requires us to be smaller and more efficient in every area of the organization," says CEO Gary Pruitt. "This includes our senior [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 9:03am EDT
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Doesn't the title of this story from CNNMoney.Com make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside? "White House Staff Safe From Obama Tax Hike." I bet you were biting your fingernails in worry about whether White House staffers would be hit with the higher taxes that President Obama [...]
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Reuters Congressional Quarterly says the accusations of corporate espionage and theft of information are baseless. Federal News also accuses CQ, which Poynter is selling, of trying to buy the transcript provider to eliminate a competitor. [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 8:33am EDT
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Washington Post | Slate
Former Miami Herald editor Tom Fiedler says news organizations should be a neutral broker among differing interests and that "what the Post was looking to do was to make a profit on the role of the convener. ...The idea of crossing a boundary line that [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 8:23am EDT
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 The Washington Post may have canceled its $25,000-a-plate dinners matching lobbyists with top officials, but Publisher Katharine Weymouth is still not seeing it the way journalists do: paying for private dinners at the publisher?s private home looks like deal-making rather than news-making. Howard Kurtz?s Friday story revealed [...]
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For the Associated Press, Tim Klass shows that taking liberties with facts by enveloping them in wild hyperbole can sex up a boring story into something much more alarming. Unfortunately, what one ends up with is not a presentation of news, but a promulgation of a narrative that befits a [...]
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 Dear Oliver,
Many years ago, when Bill Maher?s comedy show was hosted by Comedy Central and he was funny, his formula for success was truly unique. Every week two sets of political and/or cultural opposites were pitted against each other, and he refereed with humor. It was all designed [...]
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Politico.com reported that the newspaper offered lobbyists access to Obama administration officials and reporters and editors from the Post in exchange for payment.
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 6:56am EDT
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Boston Globe Former advertising executive Jack Connors and private equity investor Stephen Pagliuca got the okay this week from the New York Times Co. to team up for a potential Globe bid. Meanwhile, the Times has moved to make a sale more palatable by asking would-be buyers to assume only [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 6:55am EDT
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 We do not seem to be getting enough on-the-ground news from Iraq now that Iran and Afghanistan are dominating the foreign news agenda. But the American troop withdrawal, seen in the context of renewed bombings (250 people have died in 10 days), demands attention. What is life like [...]
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The Justice Department confirmed that it is investigating a settlement between Google and authors and publishers due to antitrust concerns.
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 4:34am EDT
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 Rupert Murdoch's most senior Australian lieutenant, John Hartigan, believes that Australian newspapers are holding up well compared with their counterparts in Britain and the US. Part of the reason, he says, is that advertising revenues in Australia have been growing over the past five years while circulation declines [...]
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 Magistrates' courts in England and Wales are now expected to provide court lists to newspapers via email free of charge. Official guidance sent to court staff this week says: "The government believes that assisting newspapers to report what is happening in their local courts is important for [...]
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The transcript service Federal News Service filed a lawsuit on Thursday against Congressional Quarterly and its parent companies, accusing them of corporate espionage and theft of information.
Federal News also accused Congressional Quarterly of trying to buy the transcript provider to eliminate a competitor and of paying a Federal News [...]
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Several states are contemplating new laws or revisions to existing laws that could eventually force online retailers to collect sales taxes.
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 12:59am EDT
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Citigroup and Relativity Media filed lawsuits against each other in November over a five-year, $550 million film deal involving Sony Pictures.
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Hailey Branson is afraid of microwaves. She plays paintball, the piano, and the marimba. And she also oozes reporting talent and a passion for journalism that borders on life affirming.
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As a former j-student colleague gushes: “In an age of constant technological advances and increased cynicism, you would be hard pressed to [...]
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A truly brief pre-holiday weekend briefing started with Press Secretary/WH School Marm Robert Gibbs' scolding of NBC's Chuck Todd for another late entrance (though no one heard a two-minute warning). "Three times -- you've got to go to detention hall," RG announced. (Chucky T was allowed to stay.)
But... [...]
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 10:47pm EDT
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Politico.com reported that the newspaper offered lobbyists access to Obama administration officials and reporters and editors from the Post in exchange for payment.
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 10:33pm EDT
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The Justice Department confirmed that it is investigating a settlement between Google and authors and publishers due to antitrust concerns.
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 10:32pm EDT
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TiVo was set back in its patent fight with Dish Network after a judge said the satellite-TV provider's customers could continue to use their digital video recorders.
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 10:30pm EDT
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Several states are contemplating new laws or revisions to existing laws that could eventually force online retailers to collect sales taxes.
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 10:28pm EDT
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Mama-Say-Mama-Saw-Mama-Would have to
hear it to believe it. This one doesn't really need much of a
setup.
While fans the world over mourn the
passing of the King of Pop, the King
of Talk, Rush Limbaugh, put the death of Michael Jackson this
way: He "flourished under [...]
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 10:27pm EDT
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A plan to bring editors and lobbyists to the publisher?s home brought a critical reaction from the newsroom.
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Politico.com reported that the newspaper offered lobbyists access to Obama administration officials and reporters and editors from the Post in exchange for payment.
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 10:19pm EDT
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Number of comments: 0  Everybody has their own reason for watching a show like ?So You Think You Can Dance," airing Wednesday and Thursday nights this summer on Fox. Some tune in for the hot dancers; some just dig the host, Cat Deeley. Others lie in wait for the [...]
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A transcript service accuses Congressional Quarterly of corporate espionage and theft of information.
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Conan O’Brien takes over the Tonight Show with an endorsement from Barack Obama, while David Letterman gets into a kerfuffle with Sarah Palin.
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 9:08pm EDT
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I'll be boarding a plane in the next few minutes headed to Las Vegas, where I'll be for the next several days to conduct some research (yes, really!) for my book and to play in the World Series of Poker.
I haven't played cards for 18 months or so, should [...]
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LAObserved.com | LATimes.com John Arthur was the #2 editor. "John and I did not agree on the need for the just-announced masthead changes, and we differ on the best approach to reaching our goals," says Times editor Russ Stanton. Sports editor Randy Harvey becomes associate editor and obituaries editor [...]
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 8:58pm EDT
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During June evening
news broadcasts, both ABC and CBS reported on the Congressional Budget Office's
(CBO) June 15 preliminary analysis of an incomplete version of the
Senate health committee's
draft health care
reform bill. Both the CBS Evening
News and ABC's World
News highlighted
claims that the bill [...]
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