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Media Bubble: Couric &. Co. Mostly Just Co. When It Comes To Big Decisions

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  • CBS News hired Rick Kaplan without consulting Katie Couric. They probably just didn't want her to worry her pretty little head about it. [NYT]
  • Barry Diller and Dow Jones are birthing a new personal finance site. You know, for kids. Web 1.0 relic Dave Kansas will be running the show. [NYP]
  • Jack Shafer is apparently the only journalist Portfolio did not try to hire. Also, what's the deal with Kurt Eichenwald, etc. [Slate]

  • WSJ ad revenue took a bit of a dip. [NYP]
  • Rupert Murdoch and S.I. Newhouse are both fairly well off. [WWD]
  • Graydon Carter roast: "Bono, guest editor of VF's July issue, turned up in the video wearing a gray fright wig vaguely resembling Carter's gull-wing hairdo. Smoking three cigarettes at once, Bono mumbled, 'Story ideas: Christopher Hitchens on why Martin Luther King is overrated!'" Damn you, Bono, you win this round. [NYDN]
  • If you create enough websites, eventually one of them will catch on, right? [MediaPost]

    • 9:09 AM on Fri Mar 9 2007
    By balk
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    • Image of Cookie Guggleman Cookie Guggleman at 09:20 AM on 03/09/07
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      I love how none of the "Katie is in trouble" storied mention her disturbing plastic surgery or her douche-ad-like lighting. The girl is just hard to look at!

    • Image of AcidReign AcidReign at 02:25 PM on 03/09/07
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      .....Let's see, when I'm making dinner and getting my national news fix, I have a choice of Charles Gibson, Brian Williams, Bill O'Reilly or Katie Couric to look at. Plastic surgery or not, this is a real easy pick.

      .....I would have chosen Elizabeth Vargas over Katie, though. Thanks a lot, ABC.

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