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Did Avatar Cost Half A Billion Dollars As The NYT Claimed?
8:50AM Richard Rushfield | When a new James Cameron movie appears, Hollywood’s industry watchers reach for their abacuses, first to tabulate the obscene amounts the film cost, and later, to add up the obscene amounts the movie makes. More »
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We Can Think Of Several Hundred Million Other Reasons
6:15AM Gabriel Snyder | Auletta: Google feared buying the NYT would “sabotage their identity as a neutral search engine”.
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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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How Newspapers Are Wording Their Own Obituaries
12:03AM Ephraim Gadsby | If anyone else is weirded out by newspapers trying to dispassionately report news of their decline, look away now. More »
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Hugh Hefner’s Old Penis Gets The Media Treatment
9:30AM Foster Kamer | Heh is the overwhelming sentiment one can read every time the New York Times gets cocky. And by cocky, I mean: talking about penises. In this instance, it’s talking about one of the oldest, most famous media penises still alive: Hugh Hefner’s. More »
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Today In David Rohde’s Great Escape
4:41AM John Cook | In Part Two of New York Times reporter David Rohde’s account of his captivity by the Taliban, we learn two things: 1) The Taliban lies, and 2) it seems like the New York Times‘ public relations professionals lie, too. More »
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NYT Reporter David Rohde And The Great Taliban Escape
12:45PM Foster Kamer | New York Times reporter David Rohde was held hostage by the Taliban for over seven months before he escaped. The Times coordinated a media blackout on the story to protect Rhode. Rohde’s publishing it in the Times. It’s pretty incredible. More »
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New York Times : ‘We Are So Old’
3:17AM Hamilton Nolan | Charming ad in today’s NYT: a 100 year-old Times front page, with a Corn Flakes ad at the bottom. ‘Statue of Purity For Times Square,’ says one typically laughable old-timey headline. How unlikely! More »
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