> Jon Friedman asks: “Why is Lachlan [Murdoch] exiting now? Who will take his spot on the flow chart? What will his move mean to the company? Will his father still give him an allowance?”
> MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann made this week’s “The Must List” in Entertainment Weekly. (It’s the only non-entertainment book, show, video, or movie on the list.) It says the show is as “topical and bitingly hilarious” as The Daily Show…
> Lost Remote’s Steve Safran files a must-read dispatch from his vacation: “Aruba, Summer 2005. A nation held hostage. By CNN and Fox…”
> The AP: A study by the National Urban League finds that “only 8 percent of the guests on the major Sunday morning talk shows over the past 18 months were African-Americans, with three people accounting for most of those appearances.”
> Howard Kurtz examines a journalistic sin: A reporter gets a scoop, then another news organization lifts it without recognition. He cites several examples, including a July 1 Roll Call story that was repeated on CNN…
The Ticker: Lachlan, Countdown, Aruba…
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