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Wall Street Journal
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Jan 29, 08 2:35 AM CST
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The feud between media magnates John Malone and Barry Diller has stepped up a level, reports the Wall Street Journal . Malone's Liberty Media Corp. is taking legal action to boot chairman Diller, his wife and seven others off the board of Internet conglomerate IAC/Interactive Corp. Malone and Diller worked together to build IAC, but their relationship has soured in recent years.
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Salon
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Jan 28, 08 2:35 PM CST
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Prime-time journalists have asked this year’s presidential candidates 2,975 questions, just six of which mentioned climate change, according to one conservation group’s tally. That puts global warming just ahead of UFOs (mentioned three times) in frequency, Salon reports. “We’ve gone through the longest primary in our history,” said one advocate, yet “these reporters are ignoring the most pressing issue.”
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New Republic
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Jan 25, 08 2:30 PM CST
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The criticism that rained down on the New York Times following the hiring of William Kristol as the op-ed page's second conservative voice not only hasn't died down, the New Republic reports, but is mounting—and the call is coming from inside the house. Multiple mostly anonymous current and former staff members blast what one calls " a very odd choice."
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New York Times
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Jan 25, 08 12:45 PM CST
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Puncturing the hopes of thrifty web surfers everywhere, the Wall Street Journal will continue to charge for much of its online content, at least for now. New owner Rupert Murdoch's apparently unplanned announcement at the World Economic Forum in Davos came after months of dithering over whether to keep access mostly subscriber-only, reports the New York Times .
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Wall Street Journal
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Jan 25, 08 10:50 AM CST
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Media moguls Barry Diller and his onetime backer, John Malone, have gone head to head, with each man’s corporation suing the other’s. Diller’s IAC/InterActiveCorp and Malone’s Liberty Media, which owns a majority voting stake in IAC, are at odds over an IAC restructuring plan that would reduce Liberty’s voting power over several key businesses, reports the Wall Street Journal .
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Reuters
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Jan 22, 08 4:37 PM CST
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A showdown over the future of one of the world's most prestigious newspapers has come to a head after the editor in chief of Le Monde said he would fight to keep a bosom buddy of Nicolas Sarkozy's from taking over the paper. The French evening newspaper lost $14.5 million last year, Reuters reports, and editor Eric Fottorino is battling to keep employees from losing their role as majority shareholders.
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The Australian
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Jan 21, 08 12:06 PM CST
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The sons of two legendary Australian media moguls are joining forces in a $2.9 billion bid to take the country’s Consolidated Media Holdings private, The Australian reports. If the deal is approved, Lachlan Murdoch and James Packer will share the diverse media conglomerate 50-50, with Murdoch as the likely executive chairman. CMH has stakes in pay TV, the Internet, and magazines.
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Women's Wear Daily
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Jan 19, 08 9:32 AM CST
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Hillary Clinton apparently hasn't seen The Devil Wears Prada. Vogue editor Anna Wintour, reputedly the inspiration for the title character, tongue-lashes the presidential hopeful in the February issue for backing out of the cover shoot, Women’s Wear Daily reports. According to Wintour, Clinton "decided to steer clear of our pages at this point in her campaign for fear of looking too feminine."
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New Republic
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Jan 18, 08 7:40 PM CST
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Mitt Romney has a big day ahead of him tomorrow, and scribes are considering his fate. Three opinions: The New Republic ’s Noam Scheiber says Mitt’s the GOP frontrunner: He only needs to make the final two to be judged the best all-around Republican. Plus, electoral chaos has hurt other hopefuls’ fundraising.
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Washington Post
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Jan 18, 08 8:17 AM CST
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It took protesters outside NBC's studios, a letter of complaint signed by Gloria Steinem, and a little pressure from on high, but after 10 days Hardball host Chris Matthews backed down from sexist remarks about Hillary Clinton, the Washington Post reports. He admitted last night that saying Clinton's political career launched because "her husband messed around" was unfair and sounded "nasty."
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CBS
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Jan 17, 08 4:10 PM CST
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Mitt Romney had a dust-up with a reporter in South Carolina today, CBS News reports, when the reporter essentially accused the candidate of lying. As Romney was saying he was not beholden to lobbyists and didn’t have one “running his campaign,” the reporter interjected, “That’s not true,” referring to Romney ally and lobbyist Ron Kaufman. Video shows the back-and-forth get more animated.
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Hollywood Reporter
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Jan 17, 08 3:38 PM CST
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VH1 programming VP Michael Hirschorn—the brains behind "Flavor of Love" and other hit shows that turned around the once-sleepy network—is leaving to start a new company centered on unscripted programming. The Hollywood Reporter writes that Ish Entertainment has secured a first-look deal with MTV Networks' Music Group, which encompasses Country Music Television and Logo in addition to MTV and VH1.
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AOL News Bloggers
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Jan 17, 08 2:48 PM CST
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The National Women’s Political Caucus will rally outside NBC's Washington studios today in protest of Chris Matthews’ pattern of sexist comments towards Hillary Clinton. The group has also signed a letter to the network from watchdog David Brock, AOL reports, quoting the Hardball anchor’s jibes at length. Last week, Matthews said, “the reason she may be a frontrunner is her husband messed around.”
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Portfolio
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Jan 16, 08 8:51 PM CST
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Gawker.com and managing editor Nick Denton are well-known for poking fun at media types, but managers of Facebook say he went too far yesterday, Portfolio.com writes. Gawker posted an item lampooning the daughter of American Law Media founder Steven Brill, poking fun at the 25-year-old’s weight alongside screenshots and other content lifted from her Facebook profile.
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Washington Post
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Jan 16, 08 1:25 PM CST
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The portrayal of battered, prize-grubbing and unscrupulous journalists in HBO's “The Wire”—based loosely on creator David Simon’s years at the downsizing Baltimore Sun —has provoked a furious internet outcry from some former colleagues who can't help but recognize themselves, the Washington Post reports. One highly regarded top editor dragged through the maybe-not-so-fictional muck calls Simon “a very angry guy"; another resents "Simon's dishonest efforts to revise history."
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Jan 15, 08 1:27 PM CST
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National Geographic is under fire for an article perceived as (gasp!) anti-North Dakota. Headlined "The Emptied Prairie," the piece refers to the state's "irreversible decline" and "sense of things ebbing." No less a personage than North Dakota's governor, John Hoeven, has lambasted it as shoddy journalism, reports the Minneapolis Star Tribune .
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Slate
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Jan 11, 08 10:36 AM CST
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The day of the New Hampshire primary was a big deal for CNN—so big that network honchos apparently couldn't resist forcing on-air talent to repeat their marketing slogan—“the best political team on television”—more than 50 times, by Jack Shafer's count. The cranky Slate media critic says the mind-numbing repetition damaged CNN's credibility, insulted its audience, and annoyed him to no end.
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Associated Press
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Jan 7, 08 3:03 AM CST