Mediagazer: Pre-Oscar Drama: Disney Sends ‘New’ Proposal; Cablevision Offers Binding Arbitration (Staci D. Kramer/paidContent)

Disney Pulls ABC From Cablevision After Deal Fails — The Walt Disney Company pulled its ABC station from Cablevision at 12:01 a.m. Sunday after failing to reach an agreement with the cable provider on a new contract, potentially leaving about three million cable customers in New York …

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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

Pre-Oscar Drama: Disney Sends ‘New’ Proposal; Cablevision Offers Binding Arbitration — Last-minute dramatics this afternoon as the next “deadline” approaches for Disney (NYSE: DIS) and Cablevision: tonight's Academy Awards. Disney says it's sent a new proposal and the ball is in the cable operator's court.

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NY Daily News:

ABC goes black at midnight, frustrating Cablevision customers — ABC has gone dark. — Seconds after midnight, Channel 7 disappeared from the screens of Cablevision customers right in the middle of a repeat episode of “Lost.” — Moments later a white screen appeared with a defiant message from ABC …

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Venuri Siriwardane / New Jersey Online:
ABC pulls signal from Cablevision just hours before the Oscars

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Clark Hoyt / New York Times:

Journalistic Shoplifting — ZACHERY KOUWE, a Times business reporter for a little over a year, resigned last month after he was accused of plagiarizing from The Wall Street Journal. An internal review of his work turned up more articles — he said he was shown four — containing copy clearly lifted from other news sources.

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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Andreessen's Advice To Old Media: “Burn The Boats” — Legend has it that when Cortes landed in Mexico in the 1500s, he ordered his men to burn the ships that had brought them there to remove the possibility of doing anything other than going forward into the unknown.

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Magda Abu-Fadil / Media on HuffingtonPost.com:

Arab Print Media Weather Financial Crunch Better Than Western Counterparts — Print media in the west may be struggling for survival but newspapers in the Arab world, which took a few hits, are nonetheless thriving and expected to grow, a recent study showed.

James Camp / Mediaite:

HBO to Dramatize The Financial Meltdown In All Its Gory Details — Like those who enjoy their car-chases, their full-frontal nudes, their dance-and-song ensembles, the strip of the populace tickled by the thought of Hank Paulson cringing over a toilet is now, evidently, sufficient to launch a movie.

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

Powerful, Niche Audiences Gather Around Live Web Programming to Build New Media Brands — While the audiences for viewing of live events might be relatively small, it can be influential for the publishers seeking to build a brand, says Jim Louderback, CEO of Revision3 …

Jack D. Lail / Random Mumblings:

Letter from the epicenter — Editor & Publisher Editor Mark Fitzgerald notes that with the departure of Rusty Coats from E.W. Scripps and the newspaper industry, “that's two Internet thinkers gone from the business in this young year. E&P's current Editor of the Year departed Gazette Communications …

Michael Calderone / The Politico:

Left gears up to fight media wars — From a glitzy new office in downtown Washington, the ideological war over the media is fully engaged. — Six years after its founding to counter what it said was “conservative misinformation,” Media Matters for America employs a staff of 70 …

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Dave Rosenberg / Software, Interrupted:

Has business press lost touch with the tech industry? — A new report by ITDatabase that examines tech coverage over the last six months from eight top business news publications raises some questions, in particular: Does the business press factor companies' revenue and profits into their tech editorial agenda?