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5:30 PM ET, March 12, 2010

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Howell Raines / Washington Post:
Why don't honest journalists take on Roger Ailes and Fox News?  —  One question has tugged at my professional conscience throughout the year-long congressional debate over health-care reform, and it has nothing to do with the public option, portability or medical malpractice.
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Ravi Somaiya / Gawker:
Fawning Political Interviews Have Ruined American Politics
Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Instant Ads Set the Pace on the Web  —  Time is now on the side of online advertisers.  —  Advertisers have been able to direct online messages based on demographics, income and even location, but one element has been largely missing until recently: immediacy.
Discussion: AdExchanger.com and NYConvergence
Mercedes Bunz / Guardian:
How will print content look on the iPad?  —  Print publishers are hopeful the iPad will hit the streets next month.  —  There are already several test examples out there.  Some blend print and online as BERG's version for the innovative Swedish publishing house Bonnier shows …
Discussion: paidContent
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Gabriel Madway / MediaFile:
IPad pre-orders begin, and so does the speculation
Business Week:
Revenge of the Cable Guys  —  If you think online TV will be free forever, think again.  The cable companies have a plan to keep control—and stick you with the bill  —  Watch the Video...  Once upon a time, not so long ago, a bunch of small companies in Silicon Valley thought the future of television was theirs.
Discussion: Company Town and NewTeeVee
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
D.C. Circuit Court Denies Cablevision/Comcast Program Access Challenge  —  Says FCC reasonably concluded rules were still necessary  —  A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Friday denied Cablevision's challenge to the program access rules, according to a copy of the opinion.
Discussion: Multichannel, Variety and Company Town
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
‘Time’ for promotions  —  Two veteran Time staffers are moving up the magazine's masthead.  —  International Editor Michael Elliott will become the new deputy managing editor, second in command to Managing Editor Rick Stengel, while Nancy Gibbs, a prolific cover story writer, moves into the No. 3 slot as executive editor.
Robert Feder / blogs.vocalo.org:
Trib CEO shoots the messenger — but misses the point  —  After what I wrote about Randy Michaels earlier this week, it's no wonder the Tribune Co. CEO doesn't care much for me.  But who knew of his low regard for the whole business of bloggers?  —  The piece here about his edict banning 119 words …
Jennifer Saba / Editor and Publisher:
In '09, New York Times Co. CEO Janet Robinson Again Out-Earned Her Boss  —  NEW YORK For the third year in a row, New York Times Co. CEO Janet Robinson made more money than Chairman and Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., according to a Security and Exchange Commission proxy filing.
Joseph Plambeck / Media Decoder:
Small Michigan Television Station Is ‘Priced to Sell’ on eBay  —  You don't need pockets as deep as Comcast's to get into the TV business.  Or even be a millionaire, apparently.  —  A UHF station in western Michigan - WMKG-LP, Channel 38 - that airs a mix of live talk shows and outdoor sports programming …
Kevin Allocca / TVNewser:
Kate Snow Departs ABC for NBC  —  First on TVNewser: ABC's “Good Morning America” weekend edition co-anchor Kate Snow is leaving the network to join NBC's “Dateline,” TVNewser has learned.  —  Snow had been with the network since 2003, when she came on as the “GMA” White House correspondent.
Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable and Mediaite
Bill Mitchell / PoynterOnline:
Ebert & Friends Tweak New Online Business Model  —  Roger Ebert and a few hundred of his closest friends and readers are hammering out a new business model for media online.  —  The money involved is small, just $4.99 a year, an amount dwarfed by an appreciation for what the film critic's fans describe …
Discussion: The Wire and Romenesko
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Plastic Logic Can't Deliver On Que; Delays E-Reader Shipments By Months  —  Another e-reader company is finding it more difficult than expected to deliver devices.  Pre-order customers for the Plastic Logic Que proReader are getting an e-mail from CEO Richard Archuleta about an extended delay …
AdAge:
Do Marketers Still Need News Brands?  —  Ken Doctor on Whether the Tablet Will Resurrect Advertiser and Publisher Relationships  —  Let's take a quick, one-question quiz together.  —  Marketers need news brands:  —  A. less than before  —  B. about the same  —  C. more than before
Discussion: Fitz & Jen
Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk:
Poynter: MSNBC narrative slideshow garners 78m page views  —  After researching the strange story of a very wealthy, elderly American heiress, veteran MSNBC investigative reporter Bill Dedman decided to experiment with the presentation of his article.  Rather than turn in a few thousand words …
Discussion: Lost Remote and E-Media Tidbits
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
It's Hard To Watch The Newsosaurs Turn A Blind Eye To Their Own Extinction  —  Sometimes it is obvious where the world is headed, but some people and industries become frozen in place and time.  They are like the duckbilled dinosaurs happily munching on the still-abundant plants around …
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Hearst's App Strategy: Adding More Needles To A Growing Haystack  —  Hearst has about 70 apps under its LMK banner in the iTunes App Store right now and it just plans to keep adding more and more.  Most of the LMK apps sell for about $1.99, while a handful cost $0.99 per download.
 
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Discussion: TechCrunch, WebNewser and Seeking Alpha
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Kevin Allocca / TVNewser:
WSJ Reporters in Talks with CNBC?
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Stuart Elliott / Media Decoder:
A Pair of Cable Upfront Pitches Suggests a Better Mood on Madison Avenue
Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
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Discussion: Jon Slattery and Editor's Blog
John Cook / Gawker:
Will Slate Let Mickey Kaus Blog During His Gag Senate Run?
Discussion: LA Weekly
/Film:
The Latest Gimmick: Last Call, an Interactive Horror Movie …
 

 
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Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
A number of Apple users say they were logged out of their Apple ID across multiple devices on April 26 and forced to reset their password before logging back in

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

William Brown / Firstyear's blog-a-log:
Google and Apple use passkeys to capture users by locking credentials into their platforms and have made the UX of passkeys worse than that of password managers

 
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