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The New York Post Will Spread CNN’s ‘Bullshit’ For A Modest Fee

4:41AM John Cook | When CNN launched a new ad claiming (falsely) to beat MSNBC and Fox News in viewers, Fox’s flack retorted that Time Warner CEO “Jeff Bewkes is too smart to buy [CNN president] Jon Klein’s bullshit.” But Rupert Murdoch isn’t. More »
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Handicapping The Bernie Madoff Interview Race

4:48AM Hamilton Nolan | Bernie Madoff’s only remaining purpose in life is to be exploited by the media. Which US network will land the first jailhouse TV interview with the villain? We handicap the possibilities, below. More »
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CNN Solves The Mystery Of Michael Jackson’s Ghost

5:36PM the cajun boy | Have you heard about the appearance of Michael Jackson’s ghost during Larry King’s broadcast from Neverland last Thursday? Plenty of America’s most staggering dipshits saw it, so CNN devoted an entire segment on King’s show tonight to solving the mystery. More »
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Twitter-Addled CNN Refers To Tweets As A ‘Source’

11:41PM John Cook | Everyone’s coverage of the uprising in Iran has been Twitter-centric, for obvious reasons. But CNN, in an apparent attempt to look like they have real, non-Twitter newsgathering capabilities, has been regurgitating Twitter posts and attributing them to unnamed “sources.” More »
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CNN Diligently Tracking Michael Jackson’s Dead Body

12:27PM the cajun boy | Certainly you’re sitting at home tonight thinking, “I wonder where Michael Jackson’s corpse is now?” Well, luckily for you, CNN is on it baby! More »
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CNN Debates Twitter’s Relevance While Ignoring Important World Events Being Reported On Twitter

6:47PM the cajun boy | Over the weekend CNN’s Howard Kurtz asked the burning question, “are we going overboard with this Twitter business?” Meanwhile, CNN virtually ignored an event overseas with the potential to alter world history, an event reported extensively by Twitter users. More »
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BBC’s Satellites Get Iran-Jammed

7:00AM Foster Kamer | Fitting: while CNN gets a Twitter beatdown for neglecting to adequately cover the Iranian election, the Iranian government’s blocking the BBC’s (stellar) reporting of the aftermath following yesterday’s results. Peter Horrocks, the (very pissed off) BBC chief, writes: More »
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Not-Secret Meeting Shrouded In Secrecy

4:09AM Hamilton Nolan | In your slammin’ Saturday media column: Lola Ogunnaike’s out of a job, the LAT’s web editor’s into a job and the secret newspaper meeting was not a secret we swear, so don’t ask any more about it or else: More »

Let’s Relive The Insane Nadir of Last Night’s Political Coverage: Holograms!

2:02AM Kyle Buchanan | So that happened last night! And by “that,” we refer not to the historic presidential victory, nor to the nationwide propositions that we are still gritting our teeth about, but to CNN newsman Anderson Cooper interviewing Black-Eyed Peas frontman Willi.i.am via hologram. Let us unite as a nation to dissect this clip’s best/worst moments, blow-by-blow, after the jump! More »