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media
Jim Spanfeller Stepping Down As Forbes.com CEO
Jim Spanfeller, the CEO of Forbes.com and the man largely credited with turning the magazine's website into dominant source for financial news on the web, is stepping down at the end of the summer. More »
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Comment by DeadFred: The only people who care about this are media insiders. In case you haven't noticed, that's not the most desirable... more » | Other threads
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print is dead
Newsweek CEO Must've Skipped the 'How Not to Fire Employees' Seminar
The way Newsweek employees get fired now: Shamelessly and publicly, via mass emails from their boss singing the praises of their incoming replacements while encouraging their co-workers to wish their shit-canned asses "bon chance" on the way out the door.
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Comment by Baroness: What an insulting cockpunch, needlessly adding insult to injury. Then again, Newsweek has been insulting and injuring innocent minds since it... 3 Responses | Other threads
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reporters in peril
Euna Lee's Note
Current TV journalist Euna Lee—currently imprisoned in North Korea—summoned the Swedish ambassador to pass on a message to her husband: He must make sure he sent in their daughter's summer school registration form. *Tear.* [via BayNewser] -
hobo nyt
New York Times Will Take Any Damn Ad
Look at this nasty ad for shingles medication. It is featured prominently on the New York Times home page today. Is there no gross ad the Hobo NYT will not display, in exchange for precious money? (Click for full grossness!) More »
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Comment by iplaudius: We need “imagine this” ads for other diseases. Imagine a hideously ugly alien baby covered with fish scales and you’ll... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Delusional Americans Love Fitness Magazine
In your level-headed Wednesday media column: Jared Kushner congratulates his busy employees, the New York Times Co. explains how broke it is, a great idea for J-schools, and Fitness magazine finds success in fat America, somehow. More »
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how things work
Jake Tapper Knows How to Grease a Gatekeeper
ABC News' Jake "The Octogon" Tapper thinks NBC News is totally "slimy" for their gross and "insulting" reporting during South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's disappearance. The nerve of those guys, suggesting that something untoward was going on! More » -
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New York Post to Debbie Rowe: So Sue Us
Yesterday, Debbie Rowe's lawyer demanded that the New York Post retract its claim that she sold her kids to Katherine Jackson for $4 million. Today the Post dug in.
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By John CookComment by TedSez: From other press accounts, Rowe received around $6 million from her former husband, with whom she had two kids, over... 2 Responses | Other threads
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outrage
Bill O'Reilly Has Had It With Media Corruption
Oh my—Bill O'Reilly is angry. Angry at Newsweek specifically, for perpetrating what he sees as a "growing problem in America...media corruption." What did Newsweek do? They allowed a liberal columnist to criticize Fox News and Sarah Palin! More »
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Comment by ChillbearLatrigue: I haven't cracked open a Newsweek since they printed a story about Koran abuse at Guantanamo Bay resulting in at... 7 Responses | Other threads
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legal threats
Debbie Rowe Sics Her Lawyers on the New York Post over Report She Sold Her Kids
The New York Post is facing a demand for retraction from Debbie Rowe's attorney over a story in today's paper, and it's choosing an odd way to defend itself: By relying on the reporting of its arch-rival, the Daily News. More »
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By John CookComment by shostakobitch: did her brother stop filming "dirty jobs" when michael died? 2 Responses | Other threads
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rumormonger
Felix Dennis Is a Food Safety Fanatic
Felix Dennis is publishing's wild man! How is the former Maxim publisher and admitted (then hastily retracted!) murderer keeping himself busy these days? More »
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Comment by GooberSaysHey: True story: I once interviewed at Maxim for a freelance gig like 6 or 7 years ago ... while I... 1 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Only Two More Years of Ad Despair
In your tragic Tuesday media column: the ad slump is *almost* over, the NYT Co. sells its classical music station, an act of God stops Bob Woodruff in Iraq, and a eulogy for a murdered Complex magazine intern. More »
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booking wars
Stephen Colbert's Attempt to Locate Mark Sanford—in Colbert Nation
Stephen Colbert e-mailed Gov. Mark Sanford's office—in character!—last month at the height of the media frenzy surrounding the governor's disappearance, inviting him on the show "for a friendly place to make light" of the story. More »
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By John CookComment by lawyergay: I've been a fan of Stephen Colbert's since his Strangers With Candy days, but I had no idea of the... 4 Responses | Other threads
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comeuppance
Peddling Reactionary Propaganda Don't Pay What It Used To
Sinclair Broadcast Group, the media company that aggressively used its 57 television stations to distribute lies about John Kerry and did everything it could to make sure George W. Bush won re-election in 2004, is on the verge of bankruptcy. More »
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By John CookComment by Marjorie Burns: Sadly, the recent success of Glenn Beck and the neocon books topping the bestseller list indicate that reactionary propaganda is... more » | Other threads
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magazines
BusinessWeek Same Price as McChicken
BusinessWeek is for sale! How much do we hear for this, the granddaddy of all business magazines? Do we hear...$1? Anyone? More »
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Comment by Aaron Altman: Actually, in Manhattan, a McChicken almost NEVER costs 99 cents - more like $1.39 - which means in some respects... 6 Responses | Other threads
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media
ABC's Bob Woodruff Returns to Iraq
In 2006 ABC's Bob Woodruff was seriously injured in a bombing by Iraqi insurgents while covering the war for his network. Today he returned for the first time since the incident. More »
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Comment by DahlELama: I'm endlessly impressed by people who can "get back on the horse," as it were. Hell, I'm still scared of... 3 Responses | Other threads
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layoffs
Veteran media reporterDylan Stableford has been laid off from Folio magazine. Media reporting: it sucks.
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scandal
Dow Jones Chief to Stiff British Parliament
Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton was asked last week by England's House of Commons to testify about the rampant wiretapping that he allegedly oversaw when running Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers. He's not going to show. More »
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By John CookComment by raincoaster: I honestly, seriously, have NO idea why this is a story now. Guido Fawkes covered it extensively when it first... 1 Responses | Other threads
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gossips
Page Six's Paula Froelich Says So Long Wage Slaves
Paula Froelich, the long-time No. 2 on the New York Post's Page Six gossip column, just gave two weeks notice, a source says. She recently published a novel Mercury in Retrograde, and there's no word on what she's doing next. More »
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Comment by Sigerson: Two things: 1. I love Paula to pieces. She was adorable on Bill Mahr's HBO show. I feel bad... more » | Other threads
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television
Handicapping the Race to Get the First Bernie Madoff Interview
Bernie Madoff's only remaining purpose in life is to be exploited by the media. Who will land the first jailhouse TV interview with the villain? We handicap the possibilities, below. More » -
clips
Fox News In the Gutter, Looking at the Czars
The Fox crew are plain goin' nuts about how Obama has appointed many people whom the media have dubbed "Czars." They will not shut about about the Czars! You know who else hated Czars, guys? How soon we forget! More »
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By PareeneComment by Colonel Mustard: Only Fox News could find a peaceful way to resolve historical revolutionary conflict between the Imperialists and the Bolsheviks by... 4 Responses | Other threads
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statistics
Matt Drudge By the Numbers
A numbers genius—not Nate Silver!—has pored over the 171,000-plus recorded updates of the Drudge Report since 2002 and put it all into chart form. Most stunning-yet-not-surprising statistic: two-year-old Politico ranks 16th among sites linked to by Drudge.
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By John CookComment by MrInBetween: What about the Top 10 domains that earned the siren? 2 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Harvard Whizzes Invent Concept of 'Beats'
In your superior Monday media column: the internet fights with the old media and wins (sort of), an old man makes comical remarks about women, Bob Woodruff returns to Iraq, and the Harvard Business Review is smarter than everyone. More »
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Comment by Perhaps Not: But... but Connor is not a woman himself! How can he know so much about this strange species called "women?"... more » | Other threads
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magazines
BusinessWeek For Sale!
Anybody want to buy an 80 year-old business magazine? Now's your chance. More »
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Comment by son of spam: Maybe. Does it come with a ride on Ivanka Trump? 1 Responses | Other threads
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media
New York Observer Owner's Lessons on How to Lose Money and Alienate People
Jared Kushner, boy wonder real estate scion and New York Observer owner: watch, as the young man fumbles his newspaper business and insults his staff! Marvel at his father's family-destroying schemes! And, his secret for attracting Ivanka Trump, below!
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Comment by momof3wildkids: "I'm happy for him when he is at the office working late." Wow. That sounds like a relationship... 2 Responses | Other threads
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outrage
WaPo Ombudsman Calls His Newspaper a Dirty Whore, Basically
Recently the Washington Post has taken a beating for attempting to sell access to its newsroom via fancy, elistist "salons." The New York Times has been positively giddy over it. Now the Post's ombudsman has spoken. More »
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Comment by MisterHippity: Can I be the Gawker Ombudsman? I have an idea for my first piece already ... 7 Responses | Other threads
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john mccain
Old Man Lamely Defends the Goldbricking Defeatist He Coronated
If you've wondered whether John McCain, in light of recent events, has felt a heightened sense of shame for choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate, we have an answer: No! Further, she may have quit because of thinning hair. More »
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Comment by lobstr: "historical legacy looked upon with almost universal esteem by future generations, destroyed by one horrendously God-awful decision." hm.. I dunno, I... 15 Responses | Other threads
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broke phi broke
Charity: The New, New-Media Profit Model
Why charge for reporting when you can just beg readers for the cash to do it? One news outlet's already taking the progressive step of doing so. More »
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By Foster KamerComment by momof3wildkids: I donate a fine bottle of Don Julio for Friday afternoon shots. 3 Responses | Other threads
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Pretend Journalism
Jennifer Aniston Takeover Of NY Daily News Offices Leaves Sore Bladders And Fake Journalists In Her Wake
Reports coming from inside the building have been trickling in our tipline throughout the day: Jennifer Aniston's shooting her new movie at the New York Daily News offices. So, what's the Daily News' bring-a-movie-star-to-work day like? We have photographic evidence. More »
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By Foster KamerComment by jbk: Best recent movie set in a NY newspaper was "The Paper" with Michael Keaton, check it out if it cones... 3 Responses | Other threads
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rumormonger
Are Michael Wolff and Victoria Floethe Done?
Have Michael Wolff and Victoria Floethe broken up? That's what we hear! If true — and please tell us, either way — it's a tragic end to a fairy tale romance that enchanted even the most jaded of observers. More »
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By PareeneComment by Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Did we ever figure out if she was a spy? 4 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Bill Keller's Had Enough of Your 'Jokes.' Jerk
In your famous Friday media column: exclusive thoughts from Steven Brill on the future of paid online newspapers, Rebecca Dana gets a new job, newspapers die and thrive, and Bill Keller will never be on the Daily Show again. More »
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Comment by lawyergay: On first sight, that Rebecca Dana headcut looked like a still from Norwegian supergroup A-Ha's "Take On Me" video. more » | Other threads
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outrage
Proud Reputations of L.A, Television, Fox Destroyed by Harlot
Body-displaying sex symbol Jillian Barberie Reynolds still has a job as a, heh, "weather and lifestyle anchor" on Fox TV in L.A., while actual journalists are getting laid off. How long will we allow sexy ladies to defile our televisions? More »
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Comment by sarrible: Oh good, she's having another baby. So that means another round of NutriSystem commercials where she announces, "I'm not like... 2 Responses | Other threads
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scandals
Murdoch Tabloid Spied on Editor of Other Murdoch Tabloid
Scotland Yard now says that it will not investigate allegations published in The Guardian that Rupert Murdoch's UK tabloids illegally hacked into the cellphones of public figures. Boo! However: the victims may sue. You'll be amazed who one victim was! More »
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Comment by bens09: From The Guardian: "The payments secured secrecy over out-of-court settlements in three cases that threatened to expose evidence of Murdoch... 1 Responses | Other threads
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print is dead
Turning Out the Lights in Edison
In 2008 the New York Times shut down its printing facility in Edison, New Jersey, laying off hundreds in the process. A reader wrote in tonight saying that the building is right now in the process of being demolished. More »
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Comment by Cool Frood: I drive past this every day. The place was available for lease by CBRE for a long time. Looks... more » | Other threads
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media
Would You Pay $5 a Month to Read the New York Times Online?
At long last, the New York Times may have figured out how to make money off its website: by charging for it. More »
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Comment by Baroness: I already subscribe to the printed edition, but I suppose I might. I do believe in the Times... 4 Responses | Other threads
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useless technology
Fox News Can't Quite Get Its Head Around CNN's Wall of Wonder
Remember the election? The dancing of the numbers across John King's magic screen on CNN, as states rose and fell and changed colors before your eyes? Viewers liked that, apparently. Fox is just now figuring that out. More »
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By John CookComment by Aaron Altman: You know who else is good with this stuff? Meteorologists. Solution: have weatherpeople do the news. Might... 3 Responses | Other threads
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The new hippies
'She Decided She Would Be Funemployed, And Started a Blog'
That whole "Funemployment" thing was clearly a fake trend composed of nothing. Which makes it perfect television! CBS sent its last working journalist to track down these young, wealthy, aimless Funemployed layabouts. Here are their dumb stories.
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Comment by lapsedjew: Is "funemployed" the new "staycation?" Because if so, I need to start working on recession-appropriate puns in the hopes that... 5 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Nick Kristof Is an Honest Man
In your commendable Thursday media column: Nick Kristof is the perfect columnist except for his writing, the NYT acknowledges its photo scandal, USA Today teaches us how to write a story that adds up to zero, and Lenny Dykstra's bankrupt. More »
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Comment by Pinekatz: If I was a high school teacher, I would take Mr. Kristof's weekend piece and make it part of my... more » | Other threads
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journalismism
White House Press Corps Happy to Attend Barack Obama's Off-the-Record BBQ
Reporters from roughly 30 television networks, newspapers, magazines, and web sites celebrated the Fourth of July with Barack Obama at the White House last weekend. Why didn't you know that? Because they were sworn to secrecy.
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By John CookComment by GisellaElectryon: What a scandal: Journalists actually go to off-the-record parties thrown by politicians. Whatever could they be up to? Certainly not... 3 Responses | Other threads
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newspaper wars
Rupert Murdoch's UK Papers in Huge Phone Hacking Scandal
British authorities are launching an investigation into allegations that Rupert Murdoch's UK newspapers paid more than $1.5 million in hush money to try to cover up the fact that they were illegally hacking into cell phones in pursuit of stories. More »
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Comment by skahammer: What exactly does "cellphone hacking" involve, anyway? Can't you pick up cellphone transmissions with shortwave radios and the like? 2 Responses | Other threads
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scandals
More NYT Photoshop Fakery Found
Photo District News has found evidence of digital manipulation in three more of the 'Ruins of the Second Gilded Age' photos published by the New York Times Magazine last weekend. It's starting to look like a *real* scandal. More »
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Comment by Borromeo: Leaves, clouds and hair will always reveal a lazy photo retoucher. 3 Responses | Other threads
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