from poynter.org
Posted Thursday December 28, 2006 at 05:18 PM
- Today John Edwards announced he was running for president: Just like yesterday he announced that he'd be announcing that he was running for president. Too good for The Daily Show these days, are we? [AP/NYT]
- Goodbye, cruel world: Saddam 'farewell letter' posted online; world responds with "Goodbye, cruel dictator." [MSNBC]
- Steve Jobs: Bad apple? The Mac-and-iPod demigod was reportedly given 7.5 million shares of stock in 2001 without the required authorization from the company's board of directors. [Financial Times]
- In the right portrait, nobody knows you're a dog: And Cleveland Plain Dealer fashion editor Kim Crow may be no dog, but some readers are slinging names like that at her after she changed her column mugshot. Maybe she should take the same obsessive care that civilians on the Internet do. [Plain Dealer]
- "Gerald Ford and James Brown: Brothers in Funk": In related news, President Ford's body is scheduled to for public viewing near his home in Palm Desert, in the House and Senate, and Harlem's historic Apollo Theater. [Poynter]
- Judge tosses lawsuit filed by a man who was denied producing credit for the movie "Crash"; Annie Proulx still wonders why he'd want it. [NYDN]
- The James Brady version of that Time cover: "Yes, you! I'm friends with you! And you and you and you and you and you." [Forbes]
- Rebecca Dana moves to the Times: The New York Observer's TV writer will cover "emerging media" at the NYT's Business Day section, covering the news on "the next Googles and MySpaces," leaving NYTV behind. [Romenesko Memos]
- Who will save you now, Couric? Page Six is wrong, says Jossip, and former MSNBC head will not move to CBS News. [Jossip]
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ETP Staff
