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R.I.P. Analog Television, Hello Digital: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer

Shelly Palmer | Posted 07.13.2009 | Media

Read More: going.com, Analog Television, Tim Armstrong, France, Timothy Morse, Iab, Digital Television, Mediabytes, Yahoo, Interactive Advertising Bureau, Piracy, Aol, Shelly Palmer, Carol Bartz, Three Strikes, Media News, Blake Jorgensen, Patch, Media News

Today marks the end of Analog Television; AOL acquires local news site Patch and events site Going.com; Yahoo announces that Timothy Morse will serve as the company's new CFO.

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Globe Writers Guild Punch Pinch

Charles Warner | Posted 07.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Arthur Sulzberger Jr., NY Times, Boston Globe, Newspapers, New York Times, Death of Newspapers, Media News, Unions, Newspaper Industry, Media News

People will act against their own best interests when they think they are being treated unfairly. They may go down, but they're going to take the greedy bastards down with them.

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Seeds of Hatred---Reaping the Harvest

Larry Gellman | Posted 07.07.2009 | Media

We can't call ourselves civilized until we learn to disagree like grownups.

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Paper of Record Is No Longer Interesting

Richard Laermer | Posted 07.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Newspapers, Papers of Record, Style, Jon Stewart, Writing, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Media News, Strunk and White, Journalism, Media News

Newspapers strive to be viewed as the defenders of society -- holding government and industry accountable for their actions in instances where the eve...

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Google's Android to Run on Acer Netbooks

Shelly Palmer | Posted 07.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Google, Conan O'Brien, Bing, Twitter, Android, Operating System, Chinese Government, Mediabytes, App Store, Jimmy Fallon, Shelly Palmer, Notebooks, Youtube, Media News, Verizon Wireless, Hotmail, Jay Leno, The Tonight Show, China, Acer, Flickr, Media News

Acer is set to be the first PC manufacturer to package its netbooks with Google's Android operating system. One of the finest selling points about Google's OS is that its free.

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NYT Edits 'Sharp Tongue' Sotomayor Headline

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, Barack Obama Sonia Sotomayor, New York Times, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Media News, Obama Supreme Court Nominee, Media News

As you may have heard, there was this one time that Judge Sonia Sotomayor totally interrupted a government lawyer, for the first time ever in the hist...

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The Right's Supremely Flawed Opening Argument Against Sotomayor

Karl Frisch | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media

The Right's reaction to Sotomayor's "wise Latina" comment shows that numerous conservatives in the media have savaged her as a racist and a bigot.

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Trent Reznor Helps Save Life On Twitter

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Veronica De La Cruz, Eric Heart Transplant, Twitter, The Giving Life, Media News, Health Care Reform, Eric, Eric De La Cruz, Save Eric, #Eric, Media News

Two weeks ago, Eat The Press' founder/blogmother Rachel Sklar took to these pages to describe the ongoing effort to procure a much needed heart transp...

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At Stake: The Future of Getting News to Americans

Alberto Ibargüen | Posted 08.26.2009 | Media

Read More: The Internet, Senate Commerce Committee, Media News, Information Technology, Media, Technology, Journalism, Employment, Media News

If the future of democracy's news and information is online, then we must ensure everyone is online, and bring technology training, digital literacy and higher quality networks to our local communities.

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Prairie Home Torture Companion

Rory O'Connor | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Media News, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Torture, Garrison Keillor, Bush Administration Torture, Democratic Congress, Crime, Terror-Criminal-Prosecution, CIA Torture, Politics News

Keillor called for a fair and thorough congressional investigation that would "lay the whole wretched business out on the public record".

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Diane Wood, Supreme Court Prospect: A Definitive Take

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, David Souter, Souter Replacement, Media News, Media Criticism, David Souter Retires, Diane Wood, Barack Obama, Judge Wood, Justice Wood, Diane Wood Supreme Court, Media News

About two weeks ago, I criticized Jeffrey Rosen for a profile of potential Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Purporting to be "The Case Against ...

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Media and Brand Supremacy: Why the New Media Brand Could Be Nike

Heidi Sinclair | Posted 06.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Death of Newspapers, Newspapers, Media News, Media, Newspaper Industry, Media News

Being able to separate content from distribution and determine how to monetize each is critical to being an effective media organization. We don't buy newspapers, we buy news.

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Blind Item Madness! Guess Who Inspired My New Book Characters and Win an Invitation to My Party!

Paula Froelich | Posted 06.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Paula Froelich Mercury in Retrograde, Page Six, Page 6, New York Post, Mercury in Retrograde, Media News, Paula Froelich, Media Gossip, New York Post Page 6, Media News

"The head of a news network" who, during his entire time with a prostitute "all he did was re-enact a Geico commercial."

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Credit Derivatives Explained: A HuffPost Guide To The Economic Meltdown (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Video, Economy Explanations, Media Criticism, Economic Crisis, Financial Crisis, Business News, Media News, Business News

On Monday, our own Sam Stein offered readers a glimpse into the past, examining the lawmakers and economists who saw, in the repeal of the Glass-Steag...

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Pat Buchanan's Holocaust-Denial Enabling Ignored By NBC

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Politics News, Sobibor, Pat Buchanan Holocaust Deniers, Nazi War Criminals, John Demjanjuk, Jesus Christ, Media Criticism, Holocaust Deniers, Holocaust, Msnbc, Media News, Majdanek, Patrick Buchanan, Media News

Buchanan's support for Holocaust denialism is ever-present, ongoing, and -- as his John Demjanjuk piece indicates -- very strongly stated. Yet NBC has done diddly-poo in response.

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Newspapers Need a Business Plan

Andy Sernovitz | Posted 06.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Newspapers, Newspaper Industry, Newspaper Printing, Media News, Print Journalism, Newspaper Business Plan, Newspaper Business, Media News

You'd laugh at anyone who came to you with a business plan that said: We're going to write up the news in a 100-page document, print it up overnight, and drive it to every single house in the city.

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Flu Attacks Media Business: Now is the Time to Act

Jack Myers | Posted 06.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Anergy, p53, Advertising, p53 Gene, Online Advertising, Online, Media, Media News, Media News

Too many media and advertising executives are waiting passively on the sidelines accepting business as usual, even as a virus eats away at the health of their businesses.

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The Coming Newspaper Renaissance: Instructions for Survival

Richard Laermer | Posted 06.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Laermer.com, Warren Buffett, Media News, Editorials, Newspaper Death Knoll, Newspaper Renaissance, Womens News Columnists, Death of Old Media, Gutenberg, Washington Post, Pulitzer Prize, Media News

From whence will the Newspaper Renaissance hail? It will start with papers moving away from their belly-buttons and instead examining their core businesses.

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Unlike TNR, WaPo Finds Sources With Actual Names To Talk About Sotomayor [UPDATED: Rosen Responds In TNR]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, David Souter, Souter Replacement, Media News, Media Criticism, David Souter Retires, Barack Obama, Media News

Who would have imagined that calling up one of Sotomayor's former employers might yield insight into her ability?

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Twitter Not For Sale!?: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer May 7, 2009

Shelly Palmer | Posted 06.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Janet Mcgregor, bit.ly, David Rehr, Nielsen Media Research, Twitter, Shelly Palmer, Kindle DX, Tinyurl, News Corp, New York Times, Media News, Nab, Mediabytes, Rupert Murdoch, Amazon, Media News

Twitter has switched default URL shorteners from Tinyurl to Bit.LY, Amazon unveiled the big screen Kindle DX, News Corp operating income fell 72% during the first quarter, and more.

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Honey, The View Shrank My Brain

Stefan Sirucek | Posted 06.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Creationism, Sherri Shepherd, Darwin, Barbara Walters, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Charles Darwin, The View, Evolution, Media News, Media, Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Media News

To hear Sherri and Elisabeth quack on and on about "Darwinism", you'd think it was just the latest fad -- like skinny jeans or the Atkins diet -- something to be amused by but skeptical of.

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Media Literacy 101: How to Detect Fear-Mongering -- Pakistani Nukes & Swine Flu

Susan Moeller | Posted 06.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Photography, Msnbc, Fear, Pakistan, Swine Flu, Media, Cnn, Nuclear Weapons, Pakistan Nuclear Weapons, Sean Hannity, Sensationalism, Craigslist, Fox News, Washington Post, Financial TImes, Media News, Sanjay Gupta, Media News

How can you tell whether you are getting a story that is balanced and proportionate to the crisis or one that is fanning panic and hysteria? One quick guide is to evaluate the pictures.

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Regarding Miss California, At Least Anita Bryant Could Sing

Michael Rowe | Posted 07.14.2009 | Politics

Carrie Prejean has become a sort of anti-Susan Boyle. It isn't just that she's a bigot, per se. There is no shortage of bigots. They just usually don't wear tiaras.

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Disney Inks Deal with Hulu: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer May 1, 2009

Shelly Palmer | Posted 06.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Espn, Microsoft, Sumner Redstone, Mediabytes, Discovery Communications, Windows 7, Shelly Palmer, Hasbro, Nbcuu, Abc, Media News, Fox, Hulu, Disney, Comcast, Viacom, Nbc, Media News

Disney has officially become an equity-owning partner in NBCU-Fox venture Hulu.

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A Business Model for Journalism Where Writers Get Paid

Michelle Haimoff | Posted 05.30.2009 | Media

The only economically viable option for the future of journalism lies in the direct corporate sponsorship of content.

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