The Media Drop

Pat O’Brien is reportedly out the door at “The Insider.”
Rafat Ali is all over the story about Ziff Davis hitting the Chapter 11 button.
TiVo beat estimates of analysts, getting closer and closer to profitability, it believes.
Want to buy the Weather Channel? Others are bidding, why not you?
Nick Douglas says a few words about why “big […]

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This morning, caught an awesome blockout of ads on the Thrillist New York newsletter for the MINI Clubman. I capped my favorite part of it, which defines a new term, “bootgating,” which is “like tailgating, but utilizing the split rear barn doors of the MINI Clubman.”

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Check out The Onion News Network’s take on an FCC decision to let nudity fly on television, but only if it’s Alyson Hannigan.
FCC Okays Nudity On TV If It’s Alyson Hannigan

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Reuters’ Peter Kaplan is reporting Monday that FCC commissioner Michael Copps is looking into allegations that a Huntsville, Alabama CBS affiliated “blacked out” a segment of “60 Minutes” on February 24 that contained “civil rights footage from the 1960s.”

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Why can’t Slate make its RSS feeds actually go to *exactly* what story I’m clicking on? I don’t want to go to the whole blog I’ve selected, I want to go to the story. Argh. /vent

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David Binkowski gives some kudos to ESPN’s “cockatoo” spot, and I can’t help but concur. I had seen this a few days ago, and thought it was a riot how the voting went awry, so to say, but that the end result said exactly what a lot of us who work with consumer generated media […]

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There’s been quite a bit of buzz this weekend surrounding Prince Harry’s removal from Afghan deployment after that was “leaked,” as some are portraying it, on the Drudge Report on Thursday. Leak or not, some of the issues that have come up are surrounding the British ministry of defense having “urged the media to maintain […]

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As I was flipping through my Gmail a few minutes ago, I caught an ad featuring “breaking news” from USA Today about a shooting that claimed four victims. (screenshot below)

Thinking that I’d heard the story before, but that maybe this was a very cool addition to Gmail’s RSS clips with new news, I clicked through. […]

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How did I manage to miss Comcast’s admission that it paid people to attend an FCC hearing where net neutrality was discussed. The company says these people were “merely saving seats for employees,” while others disagreed. Either way, it just comes off as odd, no? [via John Gruber]
The WaPo’s Paul Farhi details how WMAL host […]

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If you thought it was classic that The Onion even released the Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results of 2008 Election Early on its own, then you’ll find it even better that it made it into Bill Moyers’ Journal at pbs.org. Even better though is that it made the TV program, as well. Here’s a clip below:

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