The Media Drop

The Associated Press reports Monday that Consumers Union, the folks who bring you Consumer Reports, will be letting loose a new magazine later this year, one that will run quarterly. The publication, ShopSmart, is all about style when it comes to layout and content, from what the article states.

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OMG.
In what has to be the funniest thing I’ve seen all year, the BBC apparently ran an interview with a man who was supposed to be Guy Kewney, a technology expert, but instead put a taxicab driver job applicant who was in the lobby of the network at the time on the air. (You can […]

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Just posted something over at my work blog that’s relevant to most of you media hounds - regarding RSS feeds for media outlets you subscribe to, and what kind of information you would like to see in your RSS feeds.

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The Seattle P-I’s Dan Richman writes Friday about the announcement that the Post-Intelligencer, owned by the Hearst Corporation, and the Seattle Times would go ahead with binding arbitration in the joint operating agreement (JOA) battle. There is the definite possibility that a “win” for the Times would mean the end for the P-I, at least […]

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Is there anyone else out there who is actually surprised by the “news” that Howard Stern would be staying put on satellite radio and not moving back to terrestrial? I mean, I *could* see something similar to the Opie & Anthony situation going down, where an OTA station picked up chunks of Stern’s show that […]

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Damn. Only a few weeks after we learned that Rosie O’Donnell would be joining the cast of ABC’s “The View,” TV Squad’s Chris Thilk writes about a note in today’s Page Six about how Star Jones is getting the boot from the show. Ouch.

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