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 Lord Rothermere, owner of the Daily Mail & General Trust, once rejected launching a free newspaper in partnership with the Norwegian media conglomerate Schibsted because, supposedly, he had no faith in freesheets. Schibsted's then chief executive, Kjell Aamot, said he suggested the idea while the men [...]
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 When I posted yesterday on the remarkable candour of Rupert Murdoch in admitting that he was holding discussions with Telegraph Media Group about website paywalls, some commenters suggested that The Guardian might be involved too. Aware of the fact that the paper had already issued a statement [...]
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 The Press Complaints Commission has today issued a significant adjudication that illustrates the fine line that must be drawn between a newspaper's freedom to be offensive and whether that offensiveness constitutes discrimination. The case involves the Daily Mail and the renowned blogger Iain Dale, who complained to the [...]
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 To understand the 20-year circulation decline of the leading US newspapers - and the rise of the Wall Street Journal - see this graph. The comments are interesting too because they show, rightly, that there is no simple correlation between most of the sales falls and [...]
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 The West Highland Free Press is laying claim to being the first newspaper in Britain to be owned by its employees. From last week, 10 of its staff officially became shareholders in the trust that now owns the weekly, which is renowned for its forthright independent coverage [...]
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 The Craven Herald and Pioneer today announces a big switch by moving from broadsheet to compact and putting news on the front page for the first time in its 156-year history. The Newsquest weekly, which serves the Yorkshire area around Skipton, sells more than 15,500 copies [...]
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 AMENDED VERSION (See apology below): I am seriously worried about the recent website postings of the "investigative reporter" Mark Watts and worried therefore, should he be elected to its editorship, about the future of the NUJ's magazine The Journalist. He has put up another astonishing "exclusive" [...]
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 Rupert Murdoch's statement about the likelihood of his newspapers missing the deadline to charge for content reveals the difficulties he is having in convincing rival news companies to join his paywall construction company. Note the exact exchange - and the irony of the questioner being a Daily [...]
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 An Iranian journalist working for the international news agency Agence France Presse has been detained by Iran's security forces. Farhad Pouladi was taken into custody while on his way to cover a state-sanctioned rally to mark the 30th anniversary of the US embassy takeover. AFP's acting bureau [...]
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 So Stephen Abell has been appointed as the new director of the Press Complaints Commission, just as I forecast when Tim Toulmin announced that he was stepping down last month. Abell, who enjoys the nickname of Stig, has proved to be - pun intended - an able [...]
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 Why are upscale glossy magazines doing so much better than other print publications? That's the theme of my London Evening Standard column today. Available free, of course.  Roy Greensladeguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & [...]
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 So the prime minister thinks The Sun, in trying "to become a political party", has made "a terrible mistake". Where has Gordon Brown been living all his life? British popular newspapers have been acting like political parties for more than a century, since the press barons such [...]
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 Newspaper publishers are running out of costs to cut, so they need to show some real advertising revenue gains soon, according to a Wall Street Journal article. It claims that publishing executives have tended to hype slight moderations in the rate of decline of their year-on-year ad [...]
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 The body of Mexican crime reporter Bladimir Antuna García was found on Monday night hours after he had been abducted from while on his way to his newspaper, El Tiempo de Durango. It is thought that he was strangled to death. Next to his body was a note [...]
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 A not-for-profit journalism website, the Texas Tribune, was launched yesterday to cover only political and public policy news. Founded by venture capitalist John Thornton and edited by Evan Smith, it has a staff of 11 reporters. It is funded to the tune of $3.6m (£2.2m) by foundations, [...]
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For 20 years or longer, author-illustrator Maurice Sendak has claimed that child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim mercilessly attacked his 1963 book Where the Wild Things Are when it was first published, causing him and the book great damage. [ more ...]  [...]
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FRIDAY PM/SATURDAY AM: If there's a Christmas-themed movie opening in November, then it's the official start of the holiday box office. (Hey, no studio waits for Thanksgiving anymore...) First up: Disney's A Christmas Carol. You may know it better as Charles Dickens' novel, but Disney had a problem with title [...]
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So first WME signed the Sopranos star away from CAA. Now CAA's Chris Andrews and Matt DelPiano have got James Gandolfini back after he went to the ol' Endeavor with Brandt Joel. [...]
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 Comedienne Kathy Griffin believes it's "only a matter of time" before personal finance expert Suze Orman is President of the United States.
Why you may ask. "Because you want a nice, financially focused, dirty lesbian running this country." So said Griffin Friday during an absolutely preposterous conversation with fellow comedienne Joy [...]
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Number of comments: 3 I understand that no one on the SAG board who clashed with the AMPTP's Nick Counter during the long and bitter 2008/2009 round of negotiations before the Unite For Strength/NY/Regional divisions came to power are being allowed to have their say about his passing. But the Screen Actors Guild issued a statement tonight [...]
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 Did you know that activist filmmaker James O'Keefe and partner Hannah Giles made only one undercover video showing ACORN employees willing to assist them in illegal and human rights-violating activities?
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The new videogame Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is the most highly anticipated game of the season. Hopes are high that its sales will provide a much-needed boost to the whole industry.
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The new videogame Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is the most highly anticipated game of the season. Hopes are high that its sales will provide a much-needed boost to the whole industry.
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A rising Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) means better times are on the way, right? Not necessarily, according to CNBC CME floor reporter and tea party movement inspiration Rick Santelli. Santelli made an appearance on CNBC's Nov. 6 "Fast Money," a show which the host, Melissa Lee, is [...]
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My E&P piece from Wednesday is now being featured prominently at Huff Post, including at the top of their Books page. It focuses on the Times publishing Sunday, at shocking (for them) length a letter from Mark Danner critiquing the recent review of his book by George Packer -- and [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 10:13pm EST
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Mr. Mashek was a reporter and columnist for nearly half a century for U.S. News & World Report, The Boston Globe and other publications.
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 On Friday?s Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann suggested that Fox News is a racist organization that would hold race or religion against its employees in awarding promotions, as he used the show?s "Worst Person" segment to slam Fox and Friends co-hosts Brian Kilmeade, Gretchen Carlson, and Peter [...]
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 ABC doubled the length of its evening newscast on Friday night and World News used its second half hour to suggest an exculpatory reason behind Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan's mass killing at Fort Hood -- as anchor Charles Gibson reasoned ?treating the mentally wounded can be stressful? -- [...]
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Number of comments: 9 He was 69. He'd been ill for a long time, and was hospitalized several days ago with a stroke, I'm told. A very controversial figure in Hollywood, Nick Counter served as President of the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers (AMPTP) for 27 years, from its formation in 1982 [...]
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Armed with nothing more than a bug-spray can of unscented TRUTH and a deceptive joviality, the cunning mastermind behind Daily Kos leaves an empty chair where Tom Tancredo was sitting, until he fled like a ferret in the night.*
And is Tancredo going for that fashionable "Duck look" from Mad Men? [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 9:43pm EST
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When in doubt, cite the need for more government funding of health care. You won't find an argument on MSNBC. Among the guests offering their perspectives about the Fort Hood massacre on Rachel Maddow's show last night was Salon.com national correspondent Mark Benjamin, who tried to downplay growing evidence that [...]
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Iranian officials arrested a Japanese and two Canadian reporters during anti-government demonstrations this week and charged them with "unauthorized reporting," the semiofficial Fars News Agency reported Friday.
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:12pm EST
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Bloomberg finds a contrite banker, John Reed the former CEO of Citigroup who merged it with Sandy Weill's Travelers in the late 1990s to create a financial supermarket, one that a decade later would have the distinction of being a third-owned by Uncle Sam. Reed calls for the reinstatement [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 7:24pm EST
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Longtime pals Matt Groening and Lynda Barry participated in a Chicago Humanities Festival event at UIC, which CHF marketing and communications associate director Jara Kern says drew the largest single festival turnout ever.
I don't know if the auditorium at [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 6:29pm EST
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Peter Struck is an associate professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of their Texts. Professor Stuck is a member of the Lapham's Quarterly editorial board.
From Buckley to Beck
Back in 1996, [...]
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The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies.
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The studios have put the screws to Redbox and Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) in order to get them to take new releases at a later date. Redbox has sued all the big studios—but Netflix [...]
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On MSNBC Friday night, David Shuster (filling in for Ed Shultz) addressed hateful signs at Thursday's Capitol Hill "House call" against health care reform. But the discussion escalated into a fight that led a Republican guest to walk off the set.
Former Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo refused to criticize Republican [...]
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Episode three of NewsBusters? Notable Quotables comedy show is coming soon and as usual, the liberal media have provided plenty of great material. Here?s a quick taste of what?s to come, enjoy! In the meantime, check out last week's episode. [...]
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New York Observer Google is scanning entire issues of magazines -- ads and all. Some titles are decades old, so "it's kind of like heading into your parents' attic and checking out all the yellowing LIFE issues, only online," writes Gillian Reagan.  [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:41pm EST
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Sarah Palin's (or her publisher's) decision to bypass the country's major metropolitan pagan strongholds and blitz the secondary markets to promote her forthcoming memoir It Takes a Pillage is being cited by her admirers as another ingenious stroke of counterintuitive strategery.
I heard a radio host on WOR make that very [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:40pm EST
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 Morning Meeting host Dylan Ratigan on Friday appeared uncomfortable discussing the faith of the Muslim shooter who killed 12 people in Texas. In a tease for a segment on the subject, he noted that Major Nidal Hasan is being "described as a devout Muslim, mortified at being deployed [...]
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 Appearing on the Dr. Nancy program on MSNBC Friday, NBC News terrorism analyst Roger Cressy warned against labeling the mass shooting at Ft. Hood as terrorism, despite the apparent radical views of the shooter: ?We?ve heard some family references that he was being criticized [...]
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When news of the shooting at Fort Hood broke Tuesday, Fox News is where the majority of Americans turned for breaking news coverage.
Over the course of the breaking news, from 3PM-12AM, Fox News averaged 3.039 million total viewers, more than CNN (1.576 million), MSNBC (820,000), and HLN (428,000) combined. [...]
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Number of comments: 0 Rapidly evolving technologies and market adjustments have thrust media into states of nearly perpetual alteration that require agile and swift responses to gain benefits and defend the firm from outside forces. Managers who have been used to stable environments and well conceived plans are often reticent to move to [...]
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It's a busy weekend for the disgraced former New York Times reporter: He's the featured speaker at this afternoon's Washington and Lee University journalism ethics forum, and he's Chris Wallace's guest on "Fox News Sunday." || Note to Ed Wasserman: How about sending (or [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:18pm EST
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You remember Steven Mikulan? The widely-respected journalist and editor the LA Weekly canned last month after 25 years on staff? Mikulan was known for his versatility, earning accolades as both a theater critic and trial reporter. He counted Dominick Dunne as one of his many fans. Mikulan's most [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:16pm EST
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Washington Post Among the many reader complaints about the Post's design changes, none have been louder than those reacting to the new weather layout and the smaller map, says ombud Andrew Alexander. The original map returns next week. [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:53pm EST
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Far be it for me to criticize the campaign arm of the White House/DNC, Organizing For America, seeing as they have successfully gotten one more president elected to office than I have. But I have to think that if you want to maintain this reputation of being awesomely granular [...]
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I've been thinking about political operative Pat Caddell for years, but haven't written about him because I figured that anyone interested enough to care about the subject must know that Pat Caddell is quite conservative--and rarely disagrees with cable pundits such as Sean Hannity or Glenn Beck. I've watched [...]
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Media figures continue to falsely claim that a proposed anti-abortion amendment to the House health care reform bill would only have the effect of prohibiting government money from being used to pay for abortions, echoing a myth previously advanced about a proposed amendment to a prior version of that legislation. [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:40pm EST
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 Deadline Hollywood shocked the entertainment world Thursday when it predicted Oprah Winfrey would soon give up her syndicated television program to move it to her OWN cable network.
On Friday, the website TVNewser wondered if this might open the door for Fox News sensation Glenn Beck to move [...]
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• NBC's Meet the Press: Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS), Gov. Ed Rendell (D-PA), NYT's David Brooks, WaPo's E.J. Dionne, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, Republican strategist Ed Gillespie and NBC's Tom Brokaw
• CBS' Face the Nation: Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Rep. Ike Skelton (D-MO), [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:31pm EST
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Boston Globe El Tiempo de Boston began publishing last week as a free paper that focuses on communities with large Latino populations. It's edited by Maximo Torres, 60, former city editor of Boston's oldest Spanish-language paper, El Mundo. [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:18pm EST
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A Newsweek.com article on Tuesday celebrated historic speeches by U.S. Presidents at the Berlin Wall, somehow ignoring the fact that Barack Obama has decided not to go to Germany to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the collapse of communism. At the same time, the piece, by Anita Kirpalani, pretended that [...]
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Here?s another reason to be wary about jumping to conclusions about the shooting at Fort Hood: Bill Sparkman. Sparkman is the part-time Census employee whose body was found near a cemetery in rural southeastern Kentucky on Sept. 12, a rope tied around his neck and the word ?Fed? scrawled [...]
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Right-wing media figures have used the shooting at Fort Hood as an excuse to attack Islam and American Muslims in particular, with Debbie Schlussel, for example, urging readers to think of the alleged shooter "whenever you hear about how Muslims serve their country in the U.S. military." Additionally, commentators [...]
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The attendees for Friday's lunch were as follows: CNN's David Gergen, Washington Post's Chris Cillizza, Newsweek's Jon Meacham and Howard Fineman, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Cynthia Tucker, POLITICO's Mike Allen, NPR/ Fox's Mara Liasson, Talking Points Memo's Josh Marshal and a trio from the the New York Times: David Brooks, [...]
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Earlier today, a gaggle of journos engaged in something that's become a right of passage for Fourth Estaters of the political-establishment variety: dining with President Obama. Today's inductees into the "Potluck With POTUS" club include, per Politico's Michael Calderone: CNN's David Gergen, Washington Post's Chris Cillizza, Newsweek's Jon Meacham [...]
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Yesterday was one of the most tragic days in the military, in the midst of a slew of tragic days as we continue to see casualties in Afghanistan. Innocent soldiers lost their lives, and many more were injured, at the hands of a very troubled Major at Ft. Hood. [...]
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Number of comments: 9 2:15 PM UPDATE: I've learned that 100 people are being laid off across "several divisions" of the A&E Television Networks yesterday and today "as a direct result of the merger". It will make those employees feel so much better that management tells me it's "no one in a decision making [...]
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Politico The guest list for today's event: David Gergen, Chris Cillizza, Jon Meacham, Howard Fineman, Cynthia Tucker, Mike Allen, Mara Liasson, Josh Marshall, David Brooks, Andrew Rosenthal, and Gail Collins. [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:31pm EST
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:29pm EST
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Dow Jones Newswires breaks an excellent story on Wells Fargo's efforts to delay its day of reckoning on billions and billions of more mortgage losses, these in ready-to-implode option-ARMs Wells inherited when it bought Wachovia, which inherited them when it bought Golden West, which pioneered the disastrous concept of [...]
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Right-wing media figures have used the shooting at Fort Hood as an excuse to attack Islam and American Muslims in particular, with Debbie Schlussel, for example, urging readers to think of the alleged shooter "whenever you hear about how Muslims serve their country in the U.S. military." Additionally, commentators have [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:18pm EST
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WorldNetDaily CEO and editor-in-chief Joseph Farah claimed that WND's false report that alleged Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan "advised" the "Obama transition" -- previously debunked by Media Matters for America -- had been subsequently "confirm[ed]" by an official with the Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI) at George Washington University, which [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:17pm EST
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» Ancestry.com shares jumped five percent on their first day of trading, although they’re down a tad today. [Associated Press]
» Yahoo settles a trademark infringement lawsuit with cosmetics giant Mary Kay. [Bloomberg]
» Om Malik sorts through [...]
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Number of comments: 1 BusinessWeek's Ron Grover has a nice scoop: When DreamWorks moved to Disney for distribution, it fell under Disney pay TV deal with Starz through 2012. But Starz balked. You see pay channels like Starz get a piece of the annual $10-$12 a month that a cable operator collects from customers who [...]
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Word choice can be a subtle but effective way in which the media colorfully editorialize on the news, skewing the perceptions of readers in one direction or another. Take Washington Post's Philip Rucker, who did masterful job in skewing his 19-paragaph-long page A4 story "Activists bring 'tea party' to [...]
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In which Jon Stewart takes on Glenn Beck: The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cThe 11/3 Project [...]
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This showed up in our inbox today, oddly enough labeled "contest," although if you're honest with yourself, isn't every job a contest between you and the thousands of other applicants?
Either way: Flavorpill, the daily newsletter of fun things to do in your hometown, is opening [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:00pm EST
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 As reports of the Fort Hood shooting began to pour in yesterday, numerous news outlets neglected to mention that the shooter is a Muslim. Either the potential import of this fact was completely lost on these journalists, or they omitted the shooter's Muslim affiliations out of a concern [...]
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According to actress Sandra Bernhard, no "kid is going to watch something about sex and then run out immediately and do it." Bernhard commented during a Nov. 5 segment on CNN's "Joy Behar Show" that focused on the upcoming threesome episode of CW's "Gossip Girl." Behar asked Bernhard and [...]
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Take a look at the latest episode of NewsBusters? Notable Quotables comedy show, featuring some of the most outrageous sound bites from the liberal media. In this episode, we have CBS fawning over Michelle Obama frolicking on the White House lawn, CNN psychoanalyzing Rush Limbaugh listeners, and MSNBC?s Chris [...]
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A (fake) former president and first lady promoted health care reform in a new ad from Health Care for America Now.
Martin Sheen and Stockard Channing, known for playing The West Wing's President Jed Barlett and First Lady Abbey Barlett, tell viewers, "Now we can finally fix health care once [...]
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In a letter sent today to the City of Manitou Springs prosecuting attorney, the ACLU of Colorado relied on the constitutional right of free expression in demanding that the city dismiss criminal charges filed against a Texas musician accused of violating an [...]
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On last night's Daily Show, Jon Stewart laid out his take on the terrifying Glenn Beck Appendectomy Conspiracy, RAISING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS over how maybe it was all "a plot by Hitler to steal Glenn Beck from all of us internal organ by internal organ by internal organ [...]
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 Asked for a response to a forum on changes in modern journalism, Helen Thomas sent this reply -- sort of like old teletype but could be read as news poetry. Here is some of it: The changes are immense, no noise of clicking teletypes [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 2:28pm EST
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Since the Palin family nemesis teamed up with Playgirl, mystery has surrounded who was bringing the magazine back from the dead. Jacob Bernstein on the former sex party planner behind the revival, and why he doesn't know or care how big Johnston's "goods" are.
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Number of comments: 5 Sony announced today that Michael Jackson?s THIS IS IT hit the $100 million mark overseas on Thursday after just 9 days of screen time. The estimated international gross through November 5th is $100.2 million. Domestically, the film has taken in an additional $43.8 million for a worldwide total to date [...]
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Even before Steven Spielberg's newly reformulated Dreamworks SKG makes its first film, his studio is moving ? well, sort of. BusinessWeek has learned that movies made by Dreamworks, headed by Spielberg and producing partner Stacey Snider, will be moving from the Starz pay TVLMDIAto Showtime (CBS).
The move, which [...]
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UncleBarky.com "They forbade me to speak to anybody," says former "Today" co-host Deborah Norville. "And the result was, I was torpedoed. ...I was younger and blonder than Jane Pauley. That was apparently my huge failing." [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 2:04pm EST
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Number of comments: 9 The Writers Guild, West, is in the process of surveying members about why there is so little work in Hollywood right now, how they feel about that, and what the leadership can do about it:
"Dear Fellow Screenwriters & Television Longform Writers:??
As the screenwriters on the Board of Directors, we are [...]
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With Newsweek NewsDay about to begin charging access to their online articles via a pay wall, we're beginning to wonder if there is any other alternative for print publications to make money off the web. Obviously, ads aren't cutting it, and if you aren't charging [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 2:00pm EST
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President Obama lobbied for government stimulus almost as soon as he took office. In order to gain passage of that $787 billion spending spree, Obama warned of economic "catastrophe" including double-digit unemployment. Roughly 9 months later, we now have proof that those billions of taxpayer dollars spent didn't [...]
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Number of comments: 9 Pixel Magic today announced a new digital media studio at LITE in Lafayette. It could create 40 direct new jobs in 3 years. "Pixel Magic is a great example of the kind of companies we hoped to position Louisiana to secure when we strengthened Louisiana's film production and digital interactive [...]
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Jared Kushner and Andrew Ross Sorkin (left) got together about three weeks ago, but their talks never went far, reports Gabriel Sherman, who has a piece on the Times reporter in next week's New York mag. Kushner tried earlier this year to recruit Sorkin to [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 1:43pm EST
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The Detroit Free Press has written a letter to Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson, demanding that the business newspaper correct a story in Monday’s paper that stated the Detroit paper ran stories about Medicare because health insurer Humana suggested them and ran advertising next to them.
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On this morning's Fox And Friends, hosts Brian Kilmeade and Gretchen Carlson were all a-whip with Salem Witch Trial panic over the thought that Nidal Hasan represented some sort of vanguard of deadly Islamist shootings to come.
Kilmeade began the nonsense thusly:
KILMEADE: Do you think it's time for [...]
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In response to a Kicker post I wrote yesterday evening?which warned against making assumptions about the as-yet-unknown motivations of the Fort Hood gunman sheerly by virtue of his Muslim-sounding name?I received (in addition to reactions both thoughtful and non- in the post?s comments thread) the following e-mail: Megan, 'stories' [...]
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 Former Clinton Labor Secretary and current Obama economic adviser Robert Reich believes healthcare legislation currently being debated on Capitol Hill "won't offer most Americans any appreciable decline in the cost of their health insurance nor clear improvement in the efficiency or quality of the health care they receive."
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After months of saying that improvements were coming to its search engine, Twitter has announced a small but critical upgrade. In a blog post, Twitter says it has started an experiment that will “show higher quality results for [...]
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Poynter Online | Columbia Journalism Review At the Austin American-Statesman, social media editor Robert Quigley set up @FtHoodShootings and sent the first tweet with the first story the paper had on the shootings. By the end of the night, the list had more than 3,000 followers. || Related [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 1:24pm EST
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So Fortune magazine is cutting back its issues to 18 from 25. But don't panic. According to the Wall Street Journal, the new Fortune "will become more of a lush-looking premium product." It will have a "sharper focus on the long stories" that have been the magazine's trademark and [...]
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The Chicago Community Trust is scattering half a million dollars in seed money to support 12 innovative local journalism projects. It's a new program, Community News Matters, funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation ($250,000) and the John D. and Catherine T.MacArthur Foundation ($100,000) as well [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 1:22pm EST
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Fox News has repeatedly advanced, and in Sean Hannity's case adopted, Rep. Michele Bachmann's (R-MN) false claim that her November 5 House Call protest in opposition of health care reform was "organic" and "spontaneous." In fact, the protest was organized by House Republicans in collaboration with conservative activist groups, and [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 1:05pm EST
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 While the Washington Post ran a full news story by Philip Rucker on the conservative Capitol Hill rally on page 4 on Friday, The New York Times buried it with just six paragraphs ? smack dab in in the middle of a story on A-15 headlined "House [...]
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 All three morning shows on Friday identified the man who killed 12 at an Army base in Texas as a Muslim. However, Good Morning America?s Diane Sawyer repeated a concern from Thursday?s World News: "...We heard Martha Raddatz say last night that the wife of a soldier said [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 12:56pm EST
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Former campaign embeds Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe's book on Sarah Palin is out this week, and friends and colleagues feted the CBS reporter and former Fox reporter at last night's DC book signing and party.
Conroy and Walshe signed books and read an excerpt to [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 12:41pm EST
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