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The Great Newspaper Firewall Is Coming. And?
1:57AM Hamilton Nolan | Newsday is going to start charging for its awful website. One columnist there quit over it. The New York Times says it will make a decision on charging for its (good) website “within weeks”. Then what happens? More »
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Apple Tablet Creates Uneasy Alliance Between Cupertino, The Press
2:51AM Ryan Tate | Apple needed music publishers to make the iPod a truly massive hit. Now Apple must work with its natural enemy—the press—to do the same for its forthcoming tablet. How painful. More »
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Times To Trust Its Internet ‘Gut’. Bad Idea.
3:34AM Ryan Tate | The New York Times is reportedly determined to charge for its website; the only question is how. Offer special “membership” benefits, or rope off certain sections? Which sections? No one has any idea: More »
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Prominent Journalists Lie About Not Reading The Drudge Report
2:07AM John Cook | We’re not ones to hype Matt Drudge’s influence, but he is what he is, and New York Times editor Bill Keller and the Huffington Post’s Tom Edsall’s claims to the Observer that they don’t read Drudge are transparent lies. More »
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Why Did Nobody Pick Up The David Rohde Kidnapping Story?
9:15AM Foster Kamer | As mentioned earlier: New York Times reporter David Rohde managed to escape his Taliban captors to freedom last night by hopping over a wall. He was imprisoned for seven months. How wasn’t this widely reported? Even by us? Simple: More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Bill Keller Will Go Wherever He Wants, Suckas
4:02AM Hamilton Nolan | In your waterlogged Thursday US media column: Bill Keller defends his Iran trip, Jon Stewart is cruelly eviscerated, the Weather Channel wants the success to fail like other TV networks, and the internet reigns supreme. More »
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Times Was Pretty Sure That Daily Show Thing Went Well
1:10AM Hamilton Nolan | When the Daily Show sent Jason Jones to viciously mock the defenseless New York Times last week, the universal reaction was: Ouch. Except within the New York Times! They thought they did great. More »
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