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…And That’s All Folks

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It’s always tough to write a goodbye post. When I started here eight months ago, the big media news was Rupert Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal. Kurt Eichenwald was [...]

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Buzznet Purchases Stereogum, Launches Video Blog

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Cheers to Stereogum founder Scott Lapatine. The indie rock blog was just sold for an undisclosed sum to Buzznet, who are taking the site on an ambitious expansion plan. According [...]

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Felix Dennis Reads His Poetry

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Ever since Maxim founder Felix Dennis claimed in a Times of London interview that he once killed a man, he’s had to face up to the news that he might [...]

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Randi Rhodes Vs. Air America

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Yesterday, we wrote about how local Air America affilate WWRL no longer airs any Air America shows besides Randi Rhodes and Rachel Maddow. But as of this morning, it looks [...]

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Cory Booker’s Press Office Hates You

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Newark mayor Cory Booker is one of the Democratic Party’s bright young hopes. The 37-year-old politician was the subject of a glowing New Yorker profile and pals around with celebrity [...]

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Trouble Abroad II: Journalists, Tibet & The Olympics

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The International Olympic Committee has decided on a press strategy to deal with Western publications’ tricky questions about unrest in Tibet and the 2008 games — a “see no evil, [...]

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Trouble Abroad I: <EM>NYT</EM> Journalist Detained In Zimbabwe

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The tense situation in Zimbabwe is leading to the detainment and arrest of foreign journalists. Barry Bearak of the New York Times was arrested yesterday along with an unnamed British [...]

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Talk Radio Station Would Rather Air Informercials Than Air America

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Left-wing NY talk station AM 1600 WWRL has reordered their schedule, knocking a number of Air America programs off the air… to make way, in one case, for infomercials. Morning [...]

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Artie Bucco’s Dark Secret

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Over in the East Village, Lizz Winstead (The Daily Show, Air America) has been putting on Shoot the Messenger, a weekly live action morning show parody that recently got some [...]

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<EM>Details</EM>‘ New Publisher Is Kinda Familiar

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Details has a new publisher with a familiar name. It’s Steve Deluca. Although his last gig was as associate publisher of Condé Nast Traveler, let’s go back in time a [...]