The Media Drop

This just in: Dow Jones deal taken by News Corp.
Okay, not that we’re surprised, but Dow Jones has tentatively accepted the deal for its acquisition by News Corp., for $5 billion. The Wall Street Journal’s Sarah Ellison, who has been covering this story since its inception, shares the details on how the process will go […]

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Just one day after his show was pulled from MSNBC, Don Imus was just fired by CBS for his racially insensitive remarks towards the Rutgers University women’s basketball team.
Imus’ show, which was nationally syndicated, was run out of WFAN in New York, and had been broadcasting out of MSNBC / CNBC’s studios in recent […]

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As news has come out that New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle was killed in an accident where his plane crashed into a building on the Upper East Side of New York City, I wanted to send some kudos to baseball-reference.com for pulling the advertisements off of Lidle’s profile page, which is surely getting a […]

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In case you haven’t seen, word has come out that Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist has died at his home. He was 80 years old. More here at MSNBC.

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About half an hour ago, I was greeted by the voice of British PM Tony Blair addressing the world about multiple bombings across the London transit system that are apparent terror attacks. It is unclear how many deaths have happened, as some sources state two fatalities, but MSNBC is carrying coverage from ITN stating up […]

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The Wall Street Journal announced today that an RSS feed for 30 days worth of their free content was now available. You can access the feed here. The free content index can be found here.

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Susan Mernit breaks the story about Topix.net’s acquisition by a joint venture of Knight Ridder, Tribune and Gannett. They’ll each own 25% of the company, the New York Times‘ Katharine Seelye reports, with the company keeping the rest. Most importantly, this will allow Topix to “deploy their skills across the KRD-Trib-Gannett platform,” as […]

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Over at Johnny Dollar’s Place, Mark Koldys has video from FOX News of the end of a manhunt for a man who went on a shooting spree at an Atlanta courthouse on Friday.
[update] Trey Jackson’s got much more, including police radio transmissions and a video of the crowd cheering as Brian Nichols […]

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On Thursday, San Francisco-based Business Wire quietly launched two new features in their online service, both related to RSS feeds. PressPass users now have the opportunity to receive the latest stories in “My PressPass” via an RSS feed, which is available after logging into the system and scrolling to the bottom of the page […]

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Just read over at LGF that CNN News exec Eason Jordan has resigned after recent statements he made about journalists being targeted by the American military overseas went public, causing a furor on the ‘net.
Here’s the AP story.
Wow.
[update]
Michelle Malkin: “How brave of him to hand in his resignation on Friday night.”
She also points out […]

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