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    Image of sweetpickles sweetpickles
    11/25/09

    In reply to Martha Stewart Caught in Bed With Big Government
    Do magazines think people want to wait for their regurgitated content on a monthly basis again? No. They do not. Silly magazines. You're going to have to offer people subscriptions to a bunch of your sites. And not .pdfs.
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    11/25/09

    In reply to Martha Stewart Caught in Bed With Big Government
    From the looks of the picture, Martha Stewart is in bed with something other than the State Dept.

    With that stick, it is no wonder she doesn't need a man.
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    Image of Rozelle’s Bagman Rozelle’s Bagman
    11/25/09

    In reply to NY1 Anchors 2/3 of the Way to Terrible Trend
    Lewis Dodley, in The Standard, with a rope.
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    Image of flathead flathead
    11/25/09

    @Rozelle’s Bagman: he got done for check kiting back in the day, didn't he?
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    Image of Rozelle’s Bagman Rozelle’s Bagman
    11/25/09

    @flathead: Beats me, though he was stealing from tomorrow's newspapers before Gawker was a twinkle in Denton's eye.
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    Image of SpyMagician SpyMagician
    11/25/09

    In reply to NY1 Anchors 2/3 of the Way to Terrible Trend
    Sad, sad, sad. Who’s next? Bud Mishkin?
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    Image of Lazarou Lazarou
    11/25/09

    @SpyMagician: That's terrible. I feel like NY1 is part of my family. Who's next is question. Annika Pergament bank robbing?
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    Image of Seeräuber Jenny Seeräuber Jenny
    11/25/09

    @Lazarou: Kristen Shaughnessy wears a Size ZZZZZ bustier and stuffs Zhu Zhu hamsters into it when the Toys-R-Us clerks aren't looking.
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    Edited by Seeräuber Jenny at 11/25/09 2:03 PM Seeräuber Jenny was starred Seeräuber Jenny was unstarred
    Image of Seeräuber Jenny Seeräuber Jenny
    11/25/09

    @SpyMagician:

    Didn't you hear that all the sheet music for that Russian (?) chorus he's in went missing?
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    Image of SpyMagician SpyMagician
    11/25/09

    @Seeräuber Jenny: In Russia, music sheet you!
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    Image of hollygirl hollygirl
    11/25/09

    In reply to NY1 Anchors 2/3 of the Way to Terrible Trend
    It seemed odd that this guy's dad was a former sports star and living in a rooming house. Crack.
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    Edited by hollygirl at 11/25/09 9:37 AM hollygirl was starred hollygirl was unstarred
    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    11/25/09

    In reply to Washington Post Pulls Out of the Rest of America
    When the Big One hits L.A. or the next terrorist strike slams Manhattan, The Post will publish riveting "reaction stories" quoting the old dudes at the Holocaust Museum and Harry Reid.
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    Image of SlickaNicka SlickaNicka
    11/24/09

    In reply to Washington Post Pulls Out of the Rest of America
    I find it delightful that the Washington City Paper, the free paper with Savage Love and Stories of the Weird, broke the story. Ouch.
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    Image of Alaska Miller Alaska Miller
    11/24/09

    In reply to A Glimpse of Google without News Corp.: No Big Loss
    It's like telling a city bus to stop only at Burger King instead of McDonald's and expecting everyone to pay extra for free ice cream.
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    Image of Rozelle’s Bagman Rozelle’s Bagman
    11/24/09

    In reply to Washington Post Pulls Out of the Rest of America
    I'll miss the meta stories about Gawker ripping them off.
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    Image of Helio Helio
    11/24/09

    In reply to Washington Post Pulls Out of the Rest of America
    Oh, how quaint. My local paper will finally live up to the title. It's a shame i can't look at the editorial page (hell, the entire paper) without wanting to rip it to shreds.
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    Image of hannapdx hannapdx
    11/24/09

    In reply to Time Inc. Folding InStyle Weddings
    Oh no! I'm getting married in 2011, how will I ever know how to plan my own wedding without the help of overpriced wedding mags?!!!
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    Image of wholenuther wholenuther
    11/24/09

    In reply to Washington Post Pulls Out of the Rest of America
    Can't they just cut out their absurd editorial nonsense and keep real reporters on staff in Chicago, LA and New York?
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    Image of ndhapple ndhapple
    11/24/09

    @wholenuther: Of course not. People don't read the Washington Post for news, they read it for a regurgitation of commentary they heard on the cable shout shows yesterday.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/24/09

    @wholenuther: Excellent point. Fire the columnists and stop paying for the syndicated ones. Starting with the ne0-cons.
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    Image of Monty Monty
    11/24/09

    In reply to A Glimpse of Google without News Corp.: No Big Loss
    What is more interesting than search engines paying for content is that this could ultimately save the news media business. Ignoring the concern to Joe Searchy and having to pick a search engine based on the results being listed for their favorite news, this could potentially allow newspapers to gain income and pay their journalists again. Certainly, there is a potential dark cloud with this concept, but there is a bright and shiny one as well The news media could survive based on search engines having to pay for access to content solving their diminishing revenue stream. Hard to say whether this is a short term or long term solution to that issue, but it certainly has potential and I look forward to seeing how this turns out.
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    Image of Gabriel Snyder Gabriel Snyder
    11/24/09

    @Monty: Paying journalists is a good thing and new revenue streams are vital for news organizations to pay for their current overhead. But the problem with the rosy scenario of search engines funding journalism is that the people who go to search engines looking for news are the ones who care the least about news brands. They're more likely to click on rocketnews.com or whatever it is as they are the WSJ.com. Which is exactly what infuriates newspaper owners like Murdoch. The folks who have favorite news sources are the ones who will go straight to those favorite news sources in the first place.
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    Image of Magister Magister
    11/24/09

    @Monty: In this video of Calacanis' original suggestion (or at least the first place, I heard it), he spends a lot of the time proposing sort of a bidding war to get content from the largest media companies, but its success would hinge a great deal on Microsoft's willingness to use exclusivity as a selling point.

    IOW: The content companies would get a revenue stream, but as I hear him, Bing would be the primary beneficiary in the short run.
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    Image of Gabriel Snyder Gabriel Snyder
    11/24/09

    @Magister: Agreed. "Bing: The Only Place to Find the Wall Street Journal" would make a catchy tag line. And Microsoft probably like to lure in some other big-name brands. But I can't see them extending the same offer to smaller, lesser-known news orgs. McClatchy anyone?
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    Image of Monty Monty
    11/24/09

    @Gabriel Snyder: I think we are all in agreement. It is hard to know whether this agreement will ultimately be a winner for the news media or not. Will it even work for News Corp, let alone for small newspapers around the country? Why would Bing pay for content from the Eugene, Oregon Register Guard? Hard to imagine. That said, it is interesting to see this unfold - and I admit that I doubt either the rosy outlook nor the doom and gloom one will come to be. Usually truth falls somewhere in the middle, which in this case means it will not matter much.
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    Image of Magister Magister
    11/24/09

    @Gabriel Snyder: I don't know how far down Microsoft would like to go, but McClatchy owns a lot of big local papers. For instance in North Carolina, they own the two largest in the state, so maybe they could do some print trading and a couple of television ads saying something like "Bing: The exclusive index for the Charlotte Observer".

    Murdoch might be the one to pioneer this and he might get some quick income, but if Microsoft is willing to pay and if they're willing to negotiate something with the other players, Google could easily lose market share over the long run.
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    11/24/09

    In reply to Washington Post Pulls Out of the Rest of America
    I only wonder how this will affect such stellar "liberal media" columnists and contributors like Kagan, Krauthammer, George Will, Broder et al. Novak is dead, but apparently still tapping out propaganda from his crypt. Pity the intern transcribing that!

    Hardly matters, WaPo is such a Republican Beltway ratfuck, it's scarcely funny. Looking forward to the next Cheney op-ed, my owl's cage needs lining.
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    Image of CumaeanSibyl CumaeanSibyl
    11/25/09

    @Baroness: ... please tell me you actually have an owl.
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    11/24/09

    In reply to Washington Post Pulls Out of the Rest of America
    "... covering shit WaPo readers can get elsewhere, better, if they actually want it at all."

    They may get news from the rest of the U.S. elsewhere, but don't assume it'll be better. The post is one of the highest-quality news orgs out there.

    This is really bad news all around.
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    Image of RCrumbudgeon RCrumbudgeon
    11/24/09

    @MisterHippity: I'm not so sure...
    Their breaking news machine has itself been broken for a while.
    The biggest WaPo stories as of recent seem to be about their own screw-ups/dramas: Punchy guy and "let's sell access to employees"-gate. In my mind, the last really big story broken by the Post was the series on conditions at Walter Reed, way back in the salad days of 2007.
    Now I'm not discounting everything they've done in recent years, but I don't think the WaPo is the breaking news powerhouse it once used to be.
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