• By Jesse
    May 17, 2006 2:00 PM 114
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    Media Bubble: No One Likes Poor Barney Calame

    • Jacob Bernstein reports that ineffectual Times public editor Barney Calame is considered either: "[L]ike Kenneth Starr," unable "to step back and ask what any of it means"; unable to see the forest for the trees; like a "mosquito," always biting but never wounding; an "umpire," merely calling balls and strikes; or "a judge, not a prosecutor." None of these are compliments. [WWD]
    • CBS Evening News wasn't in third place last week for the first time in years. To reward Bob Schieffer for this significant accomplishment, naturally they're replacing him. [USAT]
    • Bids are in to buy Knight Ridder's two Philadelphia papers from McClatchy, and Mort Zuckerman and his Daily News crew are among them. [NYT]
    • Alessandra Stanley is no more accurate when covering politics than when covering television. [Wonkette]
    • AMI loses a top exec, and faces circ trouble across its titles. Fun! [NYP]
    • Jack Shafer is tired of magazines' anniversary issues. [Slate]
    • To be clear: Endeavor agent Ari Emmanuel is not backing Radar. [WWD (last item)]


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