The Media Drop

Jason Vest of the Boston Phoenix discusses the recently “unmasked” author of Imperial Hubris, and asks why the author, “Mike,” was even anonymous in the first place. The book, the second installment from this author, is a critical piece on America’s ongoing “War on Terror,” and has garnered quite a bit of media attention. […]

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Back in March, publisher Conde Nast announced that they’d be launching a new “home” focused publication with a magalogue feel to it. According to Gawker, the mag will be entitled Domino, and is still planned to launch in 2005 sometime.

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Quite a few folks have hit my site today searching for “what happened to RatherBiased.com” through Google.
In case you tried to drop by that site today, you might have noticed it wasn’t functioning correctly. I contacted RatherBiased’s Matt Sheffield today, and he informed me that they were having DNS issues. Everything […]

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Today, the National Review announced that founder William F. Buckley Jr. has chosen to give up his ownership and role as editor-at-large, effective this evening, after 49 years of service. Most oft the “new” management team is made up of current executives, with publisher Edward Capano taking on the CEO role, Rich Lowry continuing […]

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Reuters reports that Jewel has joined the small club of artists that are utilizing Clear Channel’s “Instant Live” service, whereby fans attending a concert can have a copy of the concert, in its entirety, within a few minutes of the show’s conclusion. But this technology doesn’t come without conflict. Ever since Clear Channel […]

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The Shifted Librarian’s Jenny Levine posts about the experiences of a reader (Debra Overbey) who has been communicating with some companies about the amount of advertising coming up in various RSS feeds. One company, Abebooks.com appears to have taken Overbey’s comments to heart and adjusted their advertising policy - while other feed-offering companies haven’t […]

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Back in April, I posted about the announcement that the U.K.’s Channel 4 was planning on broadcasting footage of an abortion taking place, and it had created some furor in the marketplace. Today, The Guardian writes that not only did the program run in late April, but that media regulator Ofcom has said that […]

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Who screwed up here? Cori Dauber writes that over the weekend, the family of Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun, the U.S. Marine who was kidnapped in Iraq, found out about his disappearance and subsequent capture from a media outlet - and not the military - though it unclear which network it was. Both Hassoun […]

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Steve Rubel points out a post at the RSS Weblog informing us that the New York Times has brought their RSS feeds to their own servers and added a few new new feeds for your reading pleasure.

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