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At the Last Minute, a Disney-Cablevision Truce — The Oscar statuette became a pawn in a public brawl between the Walt Disney Company and Cablevision on Sunday, a dispute that prevented more than three million viewers from watching the beginning of the Academy Awards show until …
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Joe Flint / Company Town:
Disney's deal with Cablevision is good news for broadcasters [Updated] — And the Oscar for biggest gamble goes to ... Walt Disney Co.'s ABC. — Risking political backlash and hits to its ratings, advertising revenue and public goodwill, Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger drew a line in the sand …
David Carr / New York Times:
Breaking the Story That Isn't — Reporters have always kept an eye on other reporters. For a journalist, the only thing more interesting than what you are working on is what your competitor is working on. — But what if watching your competitor becomes your whole story?
Dirk Smillie / Forbes:
Digital Lift-Off — Web ads to get a 10% boost in 2010. For the first time advertisers will spend more on digital than print. — We've been waiting for this: A study by Outsell, to be released Monday, reveals that U.S. advertisers are spending more this year on digital media than on print.
Steve Pond / The Wrap:
Analysis: How ‘Hurt Locker’ Became the $21M Movie That Could — It wasn't an Oscars for the unexpected. It was an Oscars for the unprecedented. — In the end, “The Hurt Locker” shrugged off the barrage of last-minute criticism and came out of awards season in exactly the same …
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
In lean times, TV reporters must be jacks of all trades — Scott Broom turns his tripod toward the wall of gray mailboxes, adjusts the camera, walks into the shot and delivers his spiel. — “Here's how bad it is for the U.S. Postal Service,” the WUSA reporter says as a handful of customers at the Garrett Park post office look on.
Lucia Moses / Mediaweek:
Bloomberg BusinessWeek's Bullish — Taking sharp aim at its rivals, Bloomberg BusinessWeek is prepping for a relaunch April 23 that it boasts will “reinvent” the category, with shorter stories, 20 percent more editorial pages and three more issues for a total of 50. — The moves come as others are retrenching.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
“OMG It's Steve Jobs! I'm the Only One Yelling at Him!” — That's the most excellent caption for this photo, posted Sunday night by blogger Wayne Sutton. — Squint and you can see the Apple (AAPL) cofounder and CEO in the middle of shot, standing next to the woman in the white dress (click to enlarge).
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Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
Former E&P editors Mitchell, Strupp find new jobs — Joe Strupp is launching a media blog for Media Matters. He tells Michael Calderone that his goal is to do “straight-ahead reporting” for the liberal organization. Former E&P editor Greg Mitchell tweets: “I've landed a great new …
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Felix Salmon:
Link-phobic bloggers at the NYT and WSJ — Clark Hoyt, the NYT's public editor, has a good post-mortem on l'affaire Zachary Kouwe, and asks whether “the culture of DealBook, the hyper-competitive news blog on which Kouwe worked” was partly to blame for his plagiarism.
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Lucia Moses / Mediaweek:
Foodie Site, Magazine Target Men — One doesn't have to be a die-hard fan of Iron Chef to know that men have their own way of cooking and that it often involves meat, tongs and a grill. — This demo has been largely underserved by traditional media, but now, two publishers are firing up products aimed squarely at the male chef.
Chris / cdixon.org:
News is a lousy business for Google too — There is a widespread myth that search engines have taken profits away from news websites. A few months ago, Rupert Murdoch said: “Google has devised a brilliant business model that avoids paying for news gathering yet profits off the search ads sold around that content.”
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Kirk LaPointe's …
Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
The National Enquirer Earns Some Respect — The call came into The National Enquirer's Los Angeles tip line — the kind advertised in the supermarket tabloid with the promise “We'll Pay Big for Your Celebrity Gossip” — in late September 2007. The caller's message was that a woman named Rielle Hunter …
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