The Media Drop

Before saying anything, I’m linking to the place where the best tribute I’ve seen for something like this has been done.
For those of you who’ve known me for awhile, you’ll probably remember that I launched AdJab for Weblogs, Inc. back on Super Bowl Sunday of 2005. I’d been working on the project for months and […]

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Just caught over at The Radio Equalizer that an arrest has been made in the killing of Mike Webb, the KIRO talk show host who was murdered in April and not found until late June. TRE’s Brian Maloney’s got links to all the necessaries.

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Just got a note stating that Keith O’Brien was taking on the Executive Editor role at PR Week, replacing Eleanor Trickett who was moving on to DM News. Congrats, Keith!

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As it turns out, White House spokesguy Tony Snow is ready to get back to work, the WaPo’s Peter Baker is reporting. Wishing Snow all the best in getting back to the grind, as it were, even if I don’t agree with a lot of what he has to say =).

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Wow, this is what I get for moving this weekend and being 99% out of the loop when it came to the news until tonight. Just read this item from the Times about how journalist David Halberstam was killed on Monday in San Francisco while on his way to an interview.
I’ve got to say that […]

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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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Just over two years ago, FOX News’ Tony Snow was diagnosed with colon cancer, from which he came back from and ultimately became President Bush’s speaker. Late last week, news came out that a new growth had been found in his pelvis, and this morning it’s being reported that his cancer has returned, and that […]

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The Washington Post’s Patricia Sullivan is reporting this morning that Art Buchwald, a longtime syndicated columnist, died on Wednesday of kidney failure. He was 81.

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There’s been a whole lot of folks showing up here in the last day or two looking for Sid Rosenberg, presumably because he was on Stern on Monday morning. Well, if you are trying to figure out where Mr. Rosenberg is hiding these days, you can find him here at 790 The Ticket down in […]

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In case you hadn’t heard by now, ESPN personality and baseball writer extraordinaire Peter Gammons has had a brain aneurysm, and is currently resting at a Boston hospital after surgery. While he is, of course, a Red Sox fan, he’s always someone I pay attention to as he is clearly so very well connected that […]

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