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Politico
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Jun 23, 09 7:25 PM CDT
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Michael Calderone of Politico suggests that the Huffington Post and the White House got a little too cozy today before President Obama's press conference. "In what appeared to be a coordinated exchange," Obama called on HuffPo reporter Nico Pitney for a question on Iran, and he seemed to have a pretty good idea what it would be, writes Calderone on his blog. HuffPo has been soliciting comments from Iranians, and the White House acknowledged that it invited Pitney to ask a question on their behalf.
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CNN
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Jun 17, 09 1:02 PM CDT
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Iran has slammed foreign journalists for sparking unrest in the country as the “mouthpieces” of “hooligans,” CNN reports. The foreign ministry said “hundreds” of foreigners had been allowed into Iran in “a sign of the total transparency in the trends of the elections,” but “certain countries have rushed to judgment and have supported the illegal gatherings and the disturbances that a number of opportunists had created.”
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TV Week
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Jun 15, 09 6:47 PM CDT
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David Letterman has apologized to Sarah Palin, daughters Bristol and Willow, "and everybody else who was outraged" by his joke last week about Alex Rodriguez impregnating the Alaska governor's daughter, TV Week reports. At this afternoon's taping of tonight's show, Letterman expanded on the apology he offered last week, saying. "It doesn't make any difference what my intent was, it's the perception."
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Entertainment Weekly
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Jun 15, 09 4:41 PM CDT
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Sarah Palin is "glowingly happy to be in the national spotlight again and doesn't want to give it up any time soon," Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly observes in the course of offering David Letterman unsolicited advice: "Clam up." The Late Night host returns tonight after being off the air since Thursday—his Friday show tapes earlier in the week—while the flap over his wisecracks about the Alaska governor has inflamed the blogosphere.
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New York Times
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Jun 15, 09 11:37 AM CDT
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With the New York Times Co. said to be looking for a Boston Globe buyer, David Carr polled experts to see what the paper might be worth—a question, he writes in the Times , that reaches beyond the Globe itself as the newspaper industry struggles. Carr got quite a range of answers, “everything from $250 million to 'we pay you to take this off our hands.'"
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Politico
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Jun 15, 09 9:08 AM CDT
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Barack Obama is a friend of new or non-traditional media—he’s given interviews for Univision, and called on reporters from the Huffington Post or, for example, Politico. But his true love is the Gray Lady. Unlike their predecessors, Obama and his administration treat the New York Times with utter reverence, Politico reports. Obama has personally spoken with all the paper’s columnists, and even routine, A-12 Times stories boast high-level sources.
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New York Times
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Jun 15, 09 6:03 AM CDT
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Twitter has already become a go-to place for breaking news, but the micro-blogging site assumed the role of media watchdog over the weekend, reports the New York Times . As riots protesting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s victory began to heat up in Tehran—and CNN aired a Larry King repeat about American Chopper rather than images of bloody students—tweets labeled #CNNFail began to fly.
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Politico
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Jun 14, 09 12:06 PM CDT
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Tim Russert died suddenly one year ago this weekend, and while a new moderator inhabits his chair on Meet the Press , no clear successor to his legacy has emerged, Patrick Gavin writes for Politico. “Of course there’s a void,” says CNN’s John King. “Tim was one of the most important journalists of our age,” adds Al Hunt of Bloomberg News.
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New York Daily News
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Jun 14, 09 7:36 AM CDT
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A Fox News columnist sacked after he reviewed a pirated copy of Wolverine insists he was actually fired because he was targeted by Scientologists, reports the New York Daily News . Kelly Preston and a Scientology spokesman pressured Fox News boss Roger Ailes to ax Roger Friedman because of his pieces criticizing the cult, according to a source. Tom Cruise also may have made Friedman's firing a condition of his appearance in an upcoming Fox movie, said the source.
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Newsweek
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Jun 13, 09 7:00 PM CDT
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Tired of watching its affluent readership attacked, upscale media outfits are striking back at their mainstream press brethren, Johnnie Roberts writes in Newsweek . Brett Andersen, editor of the high-end monthly Robb Report , had led the charge by blasting the “demonization of the wealthy and the industries that cater to them,” citing their economic, cultural, and intellectual contributions to society.
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Boston Herald
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Jun 11, 09 12:46 PM CDT
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A Boston real-estate and investment firm is considering buying the Globe from the New York Times Company, and the paper’s biggest union wants a piece, too, the Herald reports. Intercontinental Real Estate Corp. says it’s been in talks for weeks to purchase the beleaguered newspaper.
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Los Angeles Times
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Jun 11, 09 12:19 PM CDT
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Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. is close to a deal to sell the Weekly Standard to billionaire media mogul Philip Anschutz, the Los Angeles Times reports. The conservative magazine boasts a modest circulation of 83,000, though Murdoch has long prized the cachet it granted him in Washington. But Murdoch now has his Wall Street Journal editorial pages to push similar views to a wider audience.
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Gawker
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Jun 11, 09 9:09 AM CDT
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The Daily Show took a withering look at the state of the New York Times last night, comparing its newsroom to “Colonial Williamsburg,” Gawker reports. “Do you know they still make paper newspapers today?” Jason Jones asks viewers before interviewing Times staff. “Why is aged news better than real news?” he queries an editor, wanting to see “one thing” in the paper “that happened today.”
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Politico
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Jun 10, 09 4:31 PM CDT
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Karl Rove fired back today at Maureen Dowd for criticizing former President Bush’s frequent vacation time in Texas, Politico reports. “I think Maureen Dowd is a bitter, twisted, deranged columnist for the New York Times ,” Rove told Fox News, “who misses no opportunity to show her disdain for the conservative side of the aisle.” Rove added that he likes her writing.
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Brian Lynch
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Jun 10, 09 12:44 PM CDT
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For once, the latest viral Internet sensation isn’t a crazy video—it’s a crazy theory: 30 Rock is a rip-off of The Muppet Show. Not crazy, blogger Brian Lynch contends, before marshalling “so many facts you HAVE to concede I'm absolutely right.” From Tina Fey/Liz Lemon as the Kermit figure to the show's own coded confession, he’s pretty convincing: “Jenna Maroney” vs. Miss Piggy: “NBC got really lazy on this one, as Jane Krakowski looks like the human version of the beloved Muppet.”
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Boston Globe
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Jun 10, 09 9:52 AM CDT
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The New York Times Company has hired Goldman Sachs to handle a possible sale of the Boston Globe , the Globe reports. Goldman, which has also been trying to help the Times Co. unload its 17.5% stake in the Red Sox, has been telling prospective buyers it would accept bids after June 8, regardless of the outcome of the vote on pay and benefit cuts by the Globe 's largest union.
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BBC
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Jun 10, 09 7:20 AM CDT
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China's blocking of Twitter ahead of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre last week didn't foil the country's computer-savvy youth for very long, the BBC reports. Users swiftly shared information about visiting the site through proxies or software applications, and the subsequent twittering made Tiananmen one of Twitter's most-discussed topics last week.
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The Rumpus
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Jun 9, 09 5:10 PM CDT
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Dave Eggers, author, editor, and professed lover of print, is hatching a plan to save newspapers. Or at least a modern version of them. Eggers tells the Rumpus that he and his crew at McSweeney's will publish their version of a daily newspaper in September. It will exist for one day only but will include a business plan that can be replicated by others across the country. The general idea: Small paper, high quality.
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Front Porch Republic
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Jun 9, 09 3:13 PM CDT
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While the blogosphere is generally considered a free-for-all medium where any topic or opinion is fair game, it’s actually governed by narrow rules, Jeremy Beer writes on Front Porch Republic. “It is uncommon for someone to write a piece about something that is not immediately pertinent to the contemporary ‘conversation’—as defined by the blogosphere,” he writes. That makes it rare for “anyone to write anything ‘original’ at all.”
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Advertising Age
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Jun 9, 09 12:24 PM CDT
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There might be hope yet for the media industry, “because the tech industry is screwed too,” writes Simon Dumenco for Advertising Age . With light, cheap netbooks squeezing the profit out of the hardware, makers are partnering with media providers (ie, Acer selling netbooks for $100, plus 2-year AT&T contract) to sell subscriptions that subsidize the ever-closer-to-free prices.
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