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January 03, 2008
Noted crazy man Jim Cramer muses today that in the coming year, as stock of the New York Times Company continues to
tank, current...
January 03, 2008
LOS ANGELES: The Writers Guild of America has hired Bill Carrick and Kam Kuwata, both prominent California political consultants, to advise them during the ongoing writers strike.
January 03, 2008
As late night talk shows finally returned to the air, a nation numbed by reruns focuses more on the hosts' "strike beards" than on the monologues. Leno returns and delivers his own jokes in violation of WGA rules, raising questions about whether his hack writers will return happy. Meanwhile, forecast for the Weather Channel: slight chance of sale, with $5 billion in showers.
January 03, 2008
NEW YORK: Lifetime Television's publicity department launched a multi-week media campaign to generate buzz for its new show How to Look Good Naked. The cable network said the run up to the January 4 premiere is its largest for any reality show in Lifetime's history.
January 02, 2008
BENTONVILLE, AR: Working Families for Wal-Mart (WFWM), the Edelman-run group designed to serve as a positive public face composed of supporters of the retailer, is being changed into a completely in-house endeavor.
December 23, 2007
The biggest media story of 2007 - in fact, the only real media story of 2007 - was the changes being inflicted on the media by the Internet. Every other story was an offshoot of this fundamental dynamic.
December 21, 2007
CUPERTINO, CA: A popular blog receiving leaked information about Apple products has agreed to shut down in the wake of a company lawsuit, raising questions about whether bloggers should have the same rights as journalists.
December 20, 2007
SF Weekly today
takes a look at MediaNews CEO Dean Singleton and his distaste for newsroom unions. Which is unfortunate, since the MediaNews-owned
December 19, 2007
NEW YORK: As shareholders approved News Corp's acquisition of Dow Jones (DJ) on December 13, the ax fell in DJ's corporate communications department.
December 19, 2007
If you're a beloved star athlete who has just been outed as a growth hormone-slamming cheat, you have essentially two choices: Either fess up, apologize, and ask for forgiveness; or keep your trap shut, ignore the growing public outrage, lie and deny, and punch walls while shooting yourself up with more steroids and kicking adorable puppies.