Mediagazer: Gossip Doyenne Lifted Courtney Love Tantrum Tale from Facebook (Maureen O'Connor/Gawker)

6:40 PM ET, May 15, 2010

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Ryan Tate / Gawker:

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Sarah Kershaw / New York Times:

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Maureen O'Connor / Gawker:

Gossip Doyenne Lifted Courtney Love Tantrum Tale from Facebook — Flying from London to New York, Peter Frank and boyfriend Michael Bailey witnessed two Courtney Love meltdowns. They wrote about it on their Facebook walls. Four days later, the Post's Cindy Adams ripped them off verbatim.

Vanity Fair:

Co-Workers Bid Outgoing ABC News Producer Adieu With Barrage of Hateful Anonymous Comments — So Felix Gillette over at The New York Observer wrote a somewhat fluffy piece about veteran ABC News producer Mimi Gurbst, who, the story goes, is leaving journalism to pursue her dream of becoming ... a high-school guidance counselor.

Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:

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KHVO:

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Sebastien Provencher / The Praized Blog:

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Steve Clarke / Variety:

Asian Pacific TV ad market booms — Region's revenue moves past W. Europe — LONDON — The size of the TV advertising market in Asia Pacific overtook Western Europe for the first time last year, propelled by booming economies in China and India. — Total net TV advertising for Asia Pacific …

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Dennis Yang / Techdirt:

Viacom Still Not Getting It — Files Bogus Takedown And Kills Some Free Transformers Buzz — Ben Brown and Micki Krimmel stumbled upon the filming of Transformers 3, and from their office window, watched as cars were thrown across the air for one of the scenes.

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Media Week:

NEWSPAPER ABCS: Daily Star suffers April setback — LONDON - Richard Desmond's Daily Star tabloid hit the buffers in April after its circulation fell month-on-month for the first time in 2010. — Daily Star: circulation fall — Desmond has been aggressively price promoting the newspaper …

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James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:

Google-and-the-News Followups — There is a wider variety of reaction to my current article (I've got to say it: subscribe!) than I can deal with in any comprehensive way at the moment. For now, a restatement of a central theme, then two reader dissents. — If there is a point that …

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Lori Rotenberk / New York Times:

Terkel Coming Online — If someone was an important figure in American culture in the 20th century, chances are he or she was interviewed by Studs Terkel. — Conversations with Rosa Parks, Bob Dylan, Martin Luther King Jr. and Louis Armstrong are among the nearly 6,000 hours of interviews conducted …

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Mike Shields / Mediaweek:

NBC Bows ‘Fan It’ Viewer Rewards Program Online — As it looks to bounce back from another disappointing season, NBC is urging its viewers to become advocates of their favorite shows through a rewards-based program called Fan It. — Similar to Facebook's “Like” function …

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