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Media Crack
Greta Van Susteren Talking Out the Side of Her Neck
In your plastic Wednesday media column: Greta Van Susteren explains why she's a better friend to "poor African Americans" than Barack Obama is, along with newspaper news, TV news, and New York Post blowjob news. More »
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Iran Tightens Crackdown on Foreign Media
The crackdown in the foreign press in Iran has intensified significantly today. This morning, foreign reporters were barred from covering protests. Now ABC News' Jim Sciutto says via Twitter that he's not allowed to leave his hotel. More » -
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Will Jimmy Kimmel Get to Take on Conan After All?
In a look at the shifting geography of late-night TV as Jay Leno prepares to move to 10 p.m., the New York Times' Bill Carter and Brian Stelter drop an idea we hadn't heard before: ABC is thinking of moving Nightline up to 10 p.m. as well. More » -
gawker gets results
ABC News' Sex Panther Pays Attention to Our Reasonable Arguments
A while back, we mocked Jake "The Octogon" Tapper's habit of reproducing his exchanges with Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on his blog with his own tough, no-nonsense questions in bold. He didn't like that! More »
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By John CookComment by The Real JR: I PERSONALLY THINK THAT ALL CAPS DENOTES A CERTAIN AIR OF EDUCATION AND MENTAL INTEGRITY. LOOK IN2IT, TAPPERS!!!!1 4 Responses | Other threads
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television
Dylan Ratigan Screws Over ABC News
Dylan Ratigan, the CNBC anchor who abruptly left the network a month ago, is heading to MSNBC. Funny thing, because he promised ABC News he was all theirs as soon as his noncompete agreement was up. More »
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By John CookComment by MattPol: Go up to the Bronx and get me some breast milk from a Cambodian immigrant. 1 Responses | Other threads
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journalismism
ABC News Fiercely Defends Notoriously 'Desperate' Reporter
ABC News' Brian Ross styles himself a gumshoe of the old-school, and his network calls him "one of the most honored and respected journalists in the country." So why is he wrong so often?
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By John CookComment by lil red: I stopped trusting ABC years ago. If they break a story, I figure they are doing so only to... 1 Responses | Other threads
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flackery
Spook's Torture Lie Made Waterboarding Cool
A "former" CIA officer named John Kiriakou told ABC News that spies broke an al Qaeda terrorist in "30, 35 seconds," using waterboarding. The story spread everywhere. Of course it was a horrific lie. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by sample032: Wouldn't that mean that waterboard might be closer to an annoyance than to torture? 4 Responses | Other threads
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sex panther
A Jake Tapper Question Waits for No Man (or Woman)
ABC News' Jake ("The Octogon") Tapper just can't keep all his tough-as-nails, ballsy, hard-hitting questions inside, so he's started interrupting his fellow reporters and posting about it on his blog IN BOLD. More »
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By John CookComment by SpecialK: So let me get this straight. You're advocating reporters be polite to government spokespeople now? And ask meaningless fluff question... 5 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati Are Left Crying in Istanbul
Anyone have a handkerchief? What? Oh, nothing in particular — just the tearjerking phenomenon of seemingly intelligent people like Jake Tapper, Rachel Sklar, and Paul Carr spending so much time sharing so little on Twitter: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by mimigoliath: I can sympathize with Drew - I mourned the loss of Zack from "Bones" last year from May until about... more » | Other threads
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phonies
Jake Tapper Can't Keep His Objectivity in His Pants
Jake Tapper, a.k.a. the Littlest Sam Donaldson, told the National Review that he's so so serious about reportorial objectivity that he doesn't vote. Which is funny because he once dated John McCain's flack! More »
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By John CookComment by ToniaAntiphus: Tapper's an ass, but he's right on this one. Any number of psychological studies has shown the undeniable influence our... 2 Responses | Other threads
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gets
An Accused Scammer's Slick Tears
The Feds have accused Robert Allen Stanford of being a mini Madoff, running a multi-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme involving fraudulent certificates of deposit. Watching Stanford on ABC News tonight, it's easy to believe that's true. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by GuyBitchy: He's still a small fish, folks. So please, watch this brief video if you haven't seen it yet for the full... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Fauxpulism
Bank Vies With Oil Industry to Build the Most Outlandish Jet Hangar
The outrage beast is hungry, and ABC News is feeding it a new story: JPMorgan Chase officials are fighting hard to build a new, $18 million private-jet hangar in Westchester County. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by The Real JR: I'm on a m-f'in tear right now. I'm from WAMU and there's some wonkiness going on with the whole new debit... 10 Responses | Other threads
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obituaries
ABC Radio Reporter Stabbed To Death
George Weber, a longtime WABC newscaster turned ABC News freelancer and blogger, was found stabbed to death at home in Brooklyn. He was 47. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by spartus620: FY33YQF XCÇ√FAQW#szz4zq`z44z`z QWQ v5 6 Responses | Other threads
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tv news
Jake Tapper Interviews Paul Rudd Because Obama Was Busy
Why is Jake Tapper profiling Paul Rudd and talking about Bromance? Because he can and because there's not much happening on the White House beat these days anyway. Suck it, Chuck Todd! More »
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By John CookComment by J-No: I thought we had agreed that all stories involving Paul Rudd would include the picture of him naked in the... 1 Responses | Other threads
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journalismism
Filthy Business Tabloids: Why We Need Them
CNBC, Fox Business and Bloomberg didn't warn investors about financial armageddon, and they're not providing much catharsis now. Which is why it's fantastic that the likes of TMZ and Extra now chase financial stories. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by pistachionut: Is the "NBC News Correspondent who used to host 'To Catch a Predator'" Chris Hansen? Because he's pretty well known.... 3 Responses | Other threads
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late night
Jimmy Kimmel's Designs On Nightline
ABC might move Jimmy Kimmel Live to compete with Conan O'Brien's Tonight Show, the New York Times is reporting. ABC is pissed about the story. But it gives Kimmel reason to smile. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by unclevanya: ABC would be stupid to move any talk show to 11:35. There are only so many A/B-list guests to go... 3 Responses | Other threads
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election
Networks So Ready To Call This Election
Network news divisions got skittish about calling presidential elections following their colossally terrible performance in 2000. In case you forgot, they all called Florida for Al Gore, then uncalled it, then called it for Bush (following in the trustworthy footsteps of Fox News!), then uncalled the whole election. Their newfound prudence was rewarded in 2004 when leaked exit polls said John Kerry had the whole thing in the bag (oops). But this year the TV guys have their swagger back. Here's a CBS News executive telling the Times why California can suck it: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by get the buttah: "Networks So Ready To Call This Election" Me too!! So much so that I can't sleep!! Ack! 14 Responses | Other threads
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abc news
ABC News Execs Suffer Hotel Apocalypse
What's one more bit of bad media news on this dark, gloomy Friday? ABC News sent out a memo today saying that the bad economy is causing them to cut back on expense accounts, travel, and conference attendance, cancel all of their holiday parties, and, ironically, cancel all of their subscriptions to print magazines and newspapers (which will help the environment, they note!). And most painfully for ABC execs: More »
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Comment by Hardrock Johnson: My company (non media, but a big one that you've heard of) has sent something similar around. They made me... 1 Responses | Other threads
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sarah palin
Worst Of Sarah Palin's First Interview
Apologies are in order to Charles Gibson, widely presumed to be too soft to credibly interview Sarah Palin. If anything, the ABC News anchor's first exchange with Palin, aired last night, is all the more embarrassing to Palin precisely because Gibson was hand-picked by her handlers. The Republican vice presidential nominee's awful performance is apparent enough from the transcript, which contains her horribly stilted answer to a question about Iran, invoking "nucular weapons... given to those hands of Ahmadinejad" and already compared to Miss South Carolina's famous thoughts on "the Iraq" at a teen beauty pageant. But things are even worse on video, as seen after the jump. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by SinisterRouge: She was awful. To people that already thinks she's awful. She came off well for the people that are already... 24 Responses | Other threads
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sarah palin
Palin Buttering Up Reporter, McCain Style
After his comparatively disastrous speech at the Republican National Convention, it wouldn't seem John McCain could teach Sarah Palin much about public relations. But the Republican presidential nominee appears to have imparted an important lesson in one-on-one media manipulation: Sometimes the best response to a skeptical reporter is to draw him in as closely as possible. Politico said Palin will meet with ABC News' Charlie Gibson not only on Sunday, as originally reported, but in multiple interviews Thursday and Friday, as well, including at the prospective vice president's home in Wasilla, Alaska. Much as McCain used to score points with campaign reporters with seemingly chummy off-the-record chats, Palin no doubt hopes to soften Gibson up with a tour of her home state. Gibson, meanwhile, is supposedly racing to become the sort of interviewer who needs softening up: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by navidine: Don't you just love it when liberals/democrats are stumped. They can't find anything bad to say about Palin or McCain... 8 Responses | Other threads
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Team McCain Chooses Charles 'Softball' Gibson for First Sarah Palin TV Interview
Well, the press can stop wondering when and where Sarah Palin's first post-nomination television interview will take place. A campaign adviser says they offered ABC nightly news anchor Charles Gibson the job days ago. That's the same Charles Gibson who was last seen being "greasily avuncular and patronizing" when he and his ABC cohort George Stephanopoulos were ruining the Democratic primary debate back in April. You know, the ABC-sponsored event about which a New Yorker scribe wrote, "Seldom has a large corporation so heedlessly inflicted so much civic damage in such a short space of time... If Gibson and his partner, George Stephanopoulos, had halted their descent at the level of the fatuous, that would have been bad enough. But there was worse to come." More »
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Comment by LilyBlue: Well, I have a softball question I'd love to see tossed to her: If she's got one (former) hockey-playing... 35 Responses | Other threads
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John Edwards' Innocent Cover Up
Here is an excerpt of John Edwards on Nightline, where the Democratic politician spent most of the time trying to explain the limited nature of his bad behavior. His affair was a brief fling he quickly told his family about, driven by "a narcissism that leads you to believe you can do whatever you want, you're invincible, and there will be no consequences." He didn't have a love child with his mistress, Rielle Hunter, and didn't know anything about any hush money she may have received. He'll take a paternity test and release the results to the news media, if someone can get Hunter to participate. And, Edwards said, he only visited Hunter again recently in a Los Angeles hotel at the insistence of a mutual friend, who promised to be present, to hear a story of Hunter's "struggles." Edwards gave the careful, plausible admission of a skilled lawyer. Whether he is believed will hinge on how people react to his most vulnerable moments. Click the video icon to watch two of them. [ABC News]
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By Ryan TateComment by Trixie from Toronto: @moralliberal: Thank you. Yes. more » | Other threads
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election
Couric, ABC Left Out Of Debate Lineup
Moderators: Lehrer and Gwen Ifill of PBS, Tom Brokaw of NBC, Bob Schieffer of CBS. [WSJ] -
from the mailbag
ABC News Branches Out Into Science Fiction
Oh, this is exciting: Remember how Roone Arledge of ABC revolutionized TV sports by superimposing dramatic personal narratives onto matches, then revolutionized TV news with magazine shows like 20/20 and Nightline? Well, now ABC News is expanding on this pioneering legacy by venturing where no other news division has dared to go before (on purpose): fiction! Or, as ABC calls it, "reporting from the future." The network is asking everyone to imagine the hellscape of 2100 in order to "form a powerful... narrative about the perils of our future", and thus incite change. To do this, you just need to make a short video about how terrible things are going to be, based on a "briefing" from ABC's team of trained psychics. Here's the email pitch sent to some Columbia students yesterday: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by NicoleItchy: CNN did something similar last year with "We Were Warned" where they, um, "reported" from 2010 on the oil crisis... more » | Other threads
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tim russert
How Tim Russert Just Saved The Life Of An ABC Producer
ABC News producer Michael Bicks had a feeling something was wrong after dropping out of a long group bike ride a few weekends ago. "Besides the nausea, my only symptoms were a persistent cough and an overwhelming feeling that something was not right... That’s when Tim Russert popped into my head." Bicks looked up the symptoms of cardiac arrest online and, ignoring his instinct that "it really didn't feel like much," drove himself to the hospital, where he learned he was, indeed, having a severe heart attack. He lived to write about it in this morning's Times, where Bicks said there has been a spike in men hauling themselves into hospitals with symptoms like his, and with similar thoughts of Russert: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by whatnottowear: @scroll_lock: yeah, it kinda did -- which i find to be oddly disturbing in a very vague, nebulous way. maybe... more » | Other threads
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journalist math
ABC News grossly overestimates Twitter's reach
ABC News's thesis that "Everyone Is 'Tweeting'" is quickly disproven — in the latest article on Twitter from ABC News. It begins with the obligatory anecdote about James Buck, the Berkeley student briefly jailed in Egypt:[W]ith help from the Egyptian bloggers who received the message and alerted his university and the U.S. Embassy, Buck walked out of the police station a free man. His translator Mohammad was left behind.
Mohammed Maree, who made the mistake of getting anywhere near a protest with a cocksure Berkeley J-schooler, is still in jail. And I doubt Buck's continued tweets will be much help in freeing him. Because hardly anyone outside San Francisco's self-involved startup circles uses Twitter, and an email or text message would have been just as effective at saving Buck while leaving Maree stuck in a cell. (Photo by James Buck)
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By Jackson WestComment by jackparsons: @cruci-fiction: Michael Arrington just read this and screamed out loud "I DO NOT READ VALLEYWAG!" more » | Other threads
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By Nick DentonComment by In Other News...: So, ABC News is out to out Barack Obama and hookers. Greaaaat. more » | Other threads
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houting heads
New Yorker Double-Teams ABC News On Debate
Nancy Franklin: "Charles Gibson, ABC’s nightly-news anchor, moderated, and was greasily avuncular and patronizing; if ever Gibson was in danger of raising the questioning to a level that might actually yield something useful for viewers, George Stephanopoulos, ABC’s Sunday-morning political quarterback, was by his side to make sure that didn’t happen." Hendrik Hertzberg: "Seldom has a large corporation so heedlessly inflicted so much civic damage in such a short space of time... If Gibson and his partner, George Stephanopoulos, had halted their descent at the level of the fatuous, that would have been bad enough. But there was worse to come."
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By Ryan TateComment by BlinkyMcChuck: @harvey_wallpaper: Good question. more » | Other threads
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online video
What ABC News can learn from YouTube
"ABC is the only major broadcast network that is using the staff of its evening newscast to produce a separate and distinct daily program for a Web audience," a New York Times feature reports today. Among the differences from the broadcast show: More casual correspondents, plus longer back-and-forths between anchor and reporter that would be cut to seven seconds on cable. But ABC's online clips are shackled by two Web video blunders. More » -
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Amanda Congdon: A Star Has Fallen
"Whatever happened to Amanda Congdon's HBO deal?" asks Broadcasting and Cable today. Last November, the videoblogging web star, whose contract with ABC News was not renewed, said that her HBO project was "going to be comedy, and I know it's going to be cross-platform." But it's almost a year later, and B&C suggests that the deal will shortly expire. Well that's good—Amanda might have overextended her mindshare with so much cross-platforming vertical integration and new media brand synergy interaction! Also: Paradigm shift! More » -
below the beltway
Today, Slate's Jack Shafer admits that he loves Secretary of Defense Robert Gates—almost as much as Gates hearts the press! Looks to us like it was a smooth move this summer when Gates hired ABC News correspondent Geoff Morrell as the press secretary at the Pentagon. Please send all pix of the inevitable toilet-papering of Morrell's house by his former colleagues in the Washington press corps right to us.
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this thing looks like that thing
ABC News Handy With Thesaurus
Earlier this week, in her first piece since starting at the Observer, Doree Shafrir wrote of the David Burke & Donatella peanut butter & foie gras sandwich. Coincidentally, ABC News took a look at the sandwich today! Let's compare! More »
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By abalkComment by Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate: I'm just amazed by how many people confuse a refined palate with a blind wallet. more » | Other threads
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rumors
Amanda Congdon Done At ABC?
We hear that ABC News vlogger Amanda Congdon's contract won't be renewed. Congdon, who came to fame at RocketBoom, started contributing to their website late last year. She has been quite productive recently—taking tours of homes in Santa Barbara and talking about angry iPhone buyers. No word yet on the state of her contracts with DuPont.
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ayn rand, our president
Plucky Bob Woodruff Celebrated For Not Dying
During a briefing yesterday concerning the recommendations of a panel appointed to investigate the treatment of our wounded soldiers, President Bush singled out former ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff, who was grievously injured in Iraq.I also want to recognize Bob Woodruff here. He is a — He himself was wounded, severely wounded, and went through the system, to a certain extent. And we welcome you back, and we're glad you're with us. And we would hope that any wounded soldier, any person in uniform would receive the kind of care and the ability to return to work, just like you have done. And so we're glad you're with us, Bob. Congratulations on the will to recover.
Good for him! We always knew the rest of the Iraq casualties weren't getting any better because they just didn't want it badly enough. More »
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By abalkComment by lovely nigerienne: The pictures from his recovery were a turn-off, but I'd do him now. more » | Other threads
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media bubble
Will You Buy Tunes From Amazon?
- Amazon to open digital music store that will only sell DRM-free music—so copy away, as often as you like! Our heroes! Suck it, iTunes. [LAT] More »
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Amanda Congdon Strikes A Blow For Sorta Journalists Everywhere
I am not subject to the 'rules' traditional journalists have to follow. Isn't that what new media is all about? Breaking the rules? Setting our own?
That's Amanda Congdon on the recent controversy surrounding her decision to shill for DuPont. As we attempt to negotiate the new paradigm wherein the definition of "journalist" changes from "reporter bound by codes and strictures" to "perky chick with massive cans" we find ourselves filled with questions: Does an on-camera employee under the aegis of a network news department have any ethical obligations to refrain from endorsing products she may one day cover? Are we making a distinction between journalist and performer? Is ABC at this point left holding up a dead rabbit and pretending it's a fur coat? Is there anything the network won't let Congdon do? [Reduction surgery. -Ed.] Tough queries all. We'll just say that when even Jeff "Bloggers Are Better Than Educated Professionals" Jarvis is uncomfortable with your actions, it might be time to rethink your stance. More » -
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ABC News Staffers Clearly Bored, Surfing IMDB
Look, we know it's a slow news day, but come on. Don't forget to tune in to World News Tonight, when Charlie Gibson assesses the possibility that a group of convicts being transported to a maximum security prison might actually take over the plane in which they're flying. More »
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By abalk2Comment by Greasy Thumb Guzik: Can we send Baba WaWa, Diane Sawyer & John Quinones on that spaceship to the asteroid? Saving the Earth would be... more » | Other threads
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media
Media Bubble: DO NOT MAKE IT LIVE!!!
- "Time Inc. has selected Stockholm's Bonnier Group as the winner of the auction for the right to buy 18 of Time Inc.'s magazines. There was no immediate word on the price that Bonnier will pay, but the terms are in place and a deal should close within a month." That's what AdAge said, but then they pulled it. So who knows? [AdAge] More »
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By abalk2Comment by Hyman Decent: Aw crap, I just sent Gawker (what I thought was) a tip about Fox News calling Anderson Cooper the Paris... more » | Other threads
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rocketboom
Amanda Congdon and Andrew Baron duke it out
SCOTT KIDDER — Have you been watching Amanda's Congdon's much-hyped A/C on ABC? In her second episode for old media powerhouse Disney, she posts the question: "I wonder if citizen journalists will ever be taken seriously?" More »
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By skidderComment by Greasy Thumb Guzik: Citizen journalism taken seriously, yes it will happen. Amanda Congdon taken seriously, when Hell freezes over! She's just an idiot with a... more » | Other threads
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