media wars
Online
Why News Corp. Keeps Threatening To Leave Google
4:15AM Ryan Tate | For the second time this week, News Corp. has promised to yank its content from Google, this time within “months”. The conglomerate said loudly that search is profitless. But maybe that’s just its way of making search hugely profitable. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
California Declares War On The Media
9:56AM Richard Rushfield | The battle between celebrity media and California has been a winking-frenemy-like affair since ancient times. But suddenly the gloves are off and the US state seems hell bent on taking a sledgehammer to the skull of the Hollywood Press. More »
Small Screen
Erin Andrews: ‘Dirty Girl’ With Great ‘Gams’
1:10AM Hamilton Nolan | When ESPN reporter Erin Andrews was victimised by a peeping sex perv, the New York Post defended her by running the sexxxy perv pictures. ESPN then banned Post reporters from their channel. But the Post is not done sympathising—sexxxily! More »
Print
When Radio Was Accused Of Being The Death Of Journalism
8:09PM the cajun boy | So you know how the newspaper industry has long been whining incessantly about the internet killing journalism? Well, this isn’t the first time they’ve made such claims! They went nuts during the 1920s and 1930s over the threat from radio. More »
Online
Online News Theft A Truly Teeny-Tiny Problem
4:51AM Ryan Tate | The Wall Street Journal is up in arms about it; the Associated Press is building a robot army to fight it. But it turns out online news piracy is at most a $US250 million-per-year problem. Just how small is that? More »
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