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New York Times managing editor Jill Abramson is suing the driver that ran her down and his employers too. [P6]
According to the ad department, the New York Observer is "New York City's newest real estate read." How thrilling. [WWD]
The Boston Herald, which now owes $2 million in libel damages, asks court to reconsider its lost appeal over confusing testimony. Also: Confusing article! [Boston Herald]
New York's semi-annual New York Look fashion supplement photo-thing will be "nothing like" the Times T-thing. [WWD]
Conrad Black's investor relations guy warned him that a $3 million Park Avenue apartment at corporate expense would seem inappropriate. [LAT]
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9:56 AM ON TUE MAY 22 2007
BY CHOIRE
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Latest by Pope John Peeps II:
The fucking Conrad Black trial media coverage is one of the biggest goddamn crocks of shit in the history of crocks of shit. They don't tell you anything real about the trial at all. Ooooh David Radler admitted that he's more »
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In an interview with the Guardian, Conrad Black calls his fraud trial "bullshit" and announces that he's at war with the U.S. government. The paper also has an excerpt from Black's forthcoming biography of Richard Nixon, which praises the former president's "surpassing dignity." Read into that what you will. [Guardian]
Fashion mag ad pages sales: Count Vogue, W, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Marie Claire, Lucky, Men's Health, Men's Journal, and (maybe) Details and Teen Vogue as winners. Your losers: Esquire, InStyle, Seventeen, Cosmogirl, and Maxim. [WWD]
San Francisco Chronicle to cut 100 jobs, or 25% of the staff. [WSJ]
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Lockhart Steele: Elizabeth Spiers invented the Internet. [MarketWatch]
British magazine publisher Emap in play? [WSJ]
It's Ron Burkle vs. Kent Brownridge in the battle for Dennis Publishing's titty mags. [AdAge]
Is Village Voice Media slowly selling itself off? [SF Gate]
CollegeHumor's Ricky Van Veen: Sophomoric, rich, and one fine looking man. Seriously, we've met the dude, and we would totally do him. [BW]
Don Imus wants to get back on the air. Why not, this is America. We all deserve third acts. [NYP]
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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]
Should Conrad Black get off at his fraud trial, expect his "hellish vengeance." [The First Post]
Charlie Gibson to stick around at ABC News for a while; new "NBC Nightly News" producer hopes it's not for that long. [NYT]
Dow Jones board to wait and see what the Bancroft family wants to do about Rupert Murdoch's bid for the company. [WSJ]
The 50-year-old bimonthly American Heritage suspends publication; just like your mom, however, it still has a website. [NYT]
"Live plus three" is the new digi-mobile-webby-pod-demand Nielsen viewership measurement weirdness. [NYT]
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9:54 AM ON THU MAY 17 2007
BY BALK
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Will Ron Burkle make a play for AMI? Will he bid on Dennis Publishing? And would he merge his recently-acquired Primedia Enthusiast titles with those companies, particularly for AMI's distribution arm? And will he admit to (allegedly!) owning Radar? [WWD]
Forbes.com staffers leaving "page-view sweatshop" in droves. Sounds about right; though, you know, from inside our page-view sweatshop it doesn't look so bad. [NYO]
The results of that New York Times memorabilia auction. [NYO]
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9:55 AM ON WED MAY 16 2007
BY BALK
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Ron Burkle buys the Primedia Enthusiast Group (Hot Rod, Practical Horseman, Motorcycle Cruiser, Dressage Today, Lowrider Arte) for a staggering $1.18 billion. [NYP]
Thomson buys Reuters for $17.2 billion. [Reuters]
Richard Branson's Virgin Media losing long fight against Murdochian U.K. cable market ownership. [Guardian]
Conrad Black's Lady-wife stripped their apartment of its light fixtures before new owners moved in. [NYP]
Jack Shafer explains the Monday crap newspaper-filler to you. [Slate]
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10:15 AM ON TUE MAY 15 2007
BY BALK
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We are all tools of the 2008 campaigns' opposition research punks. (Yay! Gawker will so do your laundry, bring it on!) Also, Matt Drudge Hearts Mitt Romney. (Mini-Mitt Guide: Likes abortions, loves death penalties, no longer supports the gay marriages.) [Salon]
More shock jocks fired! CBS radio just won't stand for any more of your casual entertainment racism. What will America do? [NYDN]
Someone made poor Katie Couric talk to the Times' TV-Biz jerkface Bill Carter for some damage control about her rotten ratings. How long will she seek the guidance of Matthew Hiltzik? [NYT]
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9:54 AM ON MON MAY 14 2007
BY CHOIRE
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And when Mitt Romney says "Who`s your Daddy?" it`s not meant to be rhetorical. more »
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Google will only buy your company if it hosts "user-generated" content—so newspapers are out, as Google could only buy their "tool-generated content" (we made that phrase up! Oh har!) and then only "own" it. Funny company plan, to only buy amateurism and ephemera. [Reuters]
Umm, apparently there is "controversy" over former HBO chief Chris Albrecht's firing? Agent and liberal Ari Emanuel jumps to his defense: "Chris Albrecht is my friend." His only good point—if Sheila Nevins, HBO doc queen, is a representative example, the company doesn't let every woman get treated like garbage. [Variety]
Speaking of HuffPo (QUERY! Is HuffPo the International House of Have Axe To Grind?), Jonathan Alter lays into Radar about some minutia involving him paying for Mike Gravel's entourage's lunch or something. [HuffPo]
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9:49 AM ON FRI MAY 11 2007
BY CHOIRE
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Latest by Dick Malone:
Why do I bore you with this? Only to reinforce the point to be careful of believing everything you read.
Thanks, Jonathan. So I guess I shouldn't believe the point of your own blog post, i.e. that you are a more »
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Harry McCracken, who resigned as EIC of PC World in a dispute with the mag's CEO, has been reinstated. The CEO has been reassigned. [Wired]
The prosecution's key witness in Conrad Black fraud trial? Somewhat duplicitous. [NYP]
CNN is giving Matt Drudge a run for his money in the area of obsessive weather coverage. [TVNewser]
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Conrad Black's second-in-command turned star government witness serves up Lord Black on a platter. [WSJ]
Katie Couric rapidly approaching total viewership comprised solely of her own family; maybe she should cover Paris Hilton. [AP]
Time Warner chief Dick Parsons to Google: Bring it on, bitches, we will kick your ass. [Reuters]
If Thomson-Reuters merger is successful, Bloomberg faces some actual competition in the financial data market. [NYT]
Macy's ad chief not buying that whole "but people are reading online" excuse. [AdAge]
Of all the people from whom Susan Sontag could have plagiarized, she chose someone from Salon? (Italics indicate both publication title and severe shock.) [NYO]
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9:55 AM ON WED MAY 9 2007
BY BALK
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6 comments
Latest by Seeräuber Jenny:
I have no idea what happened here, but want to point out that is possible for a person to have an extraordinary facility for remembering writings and to so perfectly assimilate them that s/he no longer recognizes the provenance.
I tend more »
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Supreme Judicial Court in Mass. upholds $2 mil guilty verdict against Boston Herald and its reporter David Wedge in lawsuit brought by judge. [NYT]
Tranny sportswriter Christine Daniels not sure about surgery, sexual orientation. [SPORTSbyBROOKS]
Former right-hand man: "I did not make a major financial decision without consulting Conrad Black." [NYT]
If Thomson's takeover of Reuters is successful, Reuters head will become CEO of combined organization. Whirr. [WSJ]
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Oprah Winfrey endorses Barack Obama. Hell, if she can move copies of The Road she can probably sell anything. [NYT]
Both the News and the Post have padded their circulation numbers. [AdAge]
Jeff Bewkes, likely successor to Time Warner's Dick Parsons, sees a bright future for HBO, noting popularity of OnDemand. [B&C;]
HBO CEO Chris Albrecht on demand with Las Vegas PD after domestic violence incident following DeLaHoya/Mayweather bout. [LAT]
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Thomson Corp. has made an overture to take over Reuters. Will they? Is good for stock price so far! [Globe & Mail]
Microsoft wants to take over Yahoo! But will they? [NYP]
Did the NYPD leak documents concerning the city's surveillance of protesters at the Republican national convention to Judy Miller? Could be! [VV]
It's deadline time for bids on the Primedia Enthusiast Group. Could the titles go to Ron Burkle? Possibly! [NYP]
Did former Illinois governor and Hollinger International board member Jim Thompson approve millions of dollars in payments to Conrad Black? Stranger things have happened! [NYT]
Is Campbell Brown really going to leave NBC for CNN? Today is so Friday! All questions, no answers! [TVNewser]
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10:40 AM ON FRI MAY 4 2007
BY BALK
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Don Imus' contract with CBS said: "Services to be rendered are of a unique, extraordinary, irreverent, intellectual, topical, controversial, and personal character." Legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin thinks that makes Imus's $40 million lawsuit against CBS a bit more plausible. [CNN]
Grocery store magnate/alleged Radar investor Ron Burkle in talks to merge with American Media Inc. (Star, National Enquirer, etc.). [NYP]
Former Maxim EIC Keith Blanchard has left Wenner Media, where he's been since October. [WWD]
Time Warner's cable business is carrying the can for its sorry publishing component. [NYP]
Details douchebag Dan Peres rises a bit in our estimation. His take on Mark Whitaker's branding Adam Moss "the new David Remnick": "Remnick is beloved, as you know. It would have been much funnier if it had been about someone we all can't stand." [WWD]
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Post calls out News' circulation figures: The "paper's overreliance on bulk sales is propping up a single-copy sales disaster." Expect some lame News response involving the phrase "New York area" tomorrow. [NYP]
The Dolan family may finally be able to take Cablevision private. [NYT]
Former Newsweek editor Mark Whitaker jumps to NBC News. [WWD]
The Times has chosen an ombudsman to succeed Byron "Barney" Calame, may announce name within days. [E&P;]
Steve Rattner's Quadrangle Group supposedly the front-runner in the bid for Dennis Publishing tiles Maxim, Stuff, and Blender. [NYP]
Lindsay Lohan gives Radar's busy Photoshop department this month off as she becomes the first real live person to pose for the cover. [R&M;].
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10:40 AM ON WED MAY 2 2007
BY BALK
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Newspaper circulation falls pretty much everywhere. Here on the home front, though, both the Post and the News saw increases. Other (slight) success stories: USA Today and the Wall Street Journal. [WSJ]
Those numbers would be better if the Audit Bureau of Circulation included website visits. [E&P;]
Conrad Black trial gets even more contentious. [NYT]
Christopher Hitchens charms ASME panelists; calls women "humorless bitches" and refers to Anna Nicole Smith as "that fat slut who died." [WWD]
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9:40 AM ON TUE MAY 1 2007
BY BALK
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Garden & Gun has less than auspicious debut, arriving as it did just a few days before decidedly unpicturesque massive gun violence at Virginia Tech. [NYT]
Big media looking to buy the shit out of keywords for internet search terms in an attempt to drive traffic. [WSJ]
Radar feels ripped off, as Chilean mag runs with something resembling one of their stories. Somewhere Kurt Andersen has a laugh. [NYT]
Selfless Tribune execs decline bonus money, content themselves with the mere $65 million they'll get when Sam Zell completes purchase. [Trib]
Jon Friedman slavishly praises Dave Zinczenko's brand management, gives Men's Health editor lesson in non-subpar oral. [MarketWatch]
Vogue publishing director Tom Florio claims Men's Vogue "launched" Barack Obama. Take that, David Axelrod! [WWD]
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LA Times sportswriter Mike Penner to become LAT lady sportswriter Christine Daniels. Expect plenty of stupid headlines like the one above. [LAT]
Those missing Observers? Printing press problems, says Keith Kelly, who works for the New York Post, PR-managed by the Rubensteins, who also represent Jared Kushner. [NYP]
Richard Burt, former diplomat and Conrad Black adviser, to take stand today in Conrad Black's fraud trial. [Canoe]
AMI names acting editor for Men's Fitness while EIC/Jann Wenner-kisser Neal Boulton recuperates. [NYP]
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10:45 AM ON THU APR 26 2007
BY BALK
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Latest by AwBigHug:
"To my everlasting amazement, friends and colleagues almost universally have been supportive and encouraging..."
It's amazing, all right. Those LA Times folks have always seemed so conservative to me... more »
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