The Media Drop

Over at Corante, Dominic Basulto leads us to an item by Kurt Andersen from New York magazine about how news and information gets put together for the rest of us to read.

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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s M.L. Lyke writes about J.D. Alexander, former publisher of that newspaper who passed away on Tuesday of pulmonary hypertension at age 66.

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It’s official - Viacom will bust up into two separate companies, one that will handle over-the-air television, and the other to work the cable angle. One company will keep the Viacom name - the cable one - and the other will keep the CBS branding.
This should attract the favor of anti-media consolidation proponents, but […]

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The Kansas City Star’s David Hayes noted Tuesday that Sprint mobile phones will carry some radio shows from the SIRIUS Satellite Radio service.

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Radar sez that former New York magazine EIC Kurt Andersen took a bit of a bitter pill a few years ago after bankrolling the high life of socialite Inna De Silva while attempting to get a story for the pub. As it turns out, the story wasn’t there, but the expenses the mag’s staffer incurred […]

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TVGuide.com said this week that it would be releasing a regular ‘podcast,’ available on their website. Each download will contain “Entertainment News,” “Watercooler,” “Ask Ausiello” - an audio version of Michael Ausiello’s column, “FlickChick” by Maitland McDonagh, and “The Week Ahead.” Also expected are interviews, voicemail from listeners, and more. The feed is available here. […]

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On Monday, the Associated Press reported that Jesus Blancornela, the founder of a Tijuana, Mexico-based Zeta newspaper, was given the Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity by the Los Angeles Press Club.

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I’ve been watching MSNBC all afternoon, and the moment when the news came down that the verdict in the Michael Jackson trial would be coming down shortly, the people running around the background and the confusion going on was almost hilarious. Then, just moments later, the report comes in to Lisa Daniels that “we’re not […]

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On Monday, Clear Channel Radio expressed its displeasure with the state of radio measurement and ratings by putting out a request for proposals for a new system to do a better job. The company cites a recent study by Millward Brown that showed a 49% besting of television ad by radio spots for getting consumers […]

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Is it just me or is MSNBC’s “The Situation,” with Tucker Carlson going to be just like ESPN’s “Pardon the Interruption” with Michael Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser? Carlson (who will keep his bow tie, btw) was just introduced on MSNBC News Live, where Randy Meier stated that he would be doing his news show “in […]

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