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Chicago Tribune:
Tribune Co. CEO Randy Michaels resigns amid accusations of crass behavior — Four-member Executive Council to run company as it struggles to exit bankruptcy. — Having lost the support of many employees, his board and the creditors who will soon take over the bankrupt media company …
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New York Times:
Tribune Company Ousts Randy Michaels as Chief — The Tribune Company's board of directors resolved on Friday what had been its preoccupation for most of the week: sealing the fate of Randy Michaels, the controversial chief executive who became a dark sideshow to his bankrupt company's financial struggles.
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
NPR's Schiller Says Juan Williams Was Fired Because of Ethics Guidelines — The timing might not have been perfect. But firing Juan Williams was the right decision, the NPR chief executive, Vivian Schiller, said in an interview Friday. — NPR found itself under fire on Friday for the decision …
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New York Times, The Maynard Institute and Opinionator
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Abe Sauer / The Awl:
NPR Should Have Let Juan Williams Go Years Ago — Juan Williams had been warned. The move by NPR to terminate the contract of news analyst Williams has thrown the usual suspects into the expected histrionics of victimization. Karl Rove managed to keep a straight face when he went on Fox News …
Jon Bershad / Mediaite:
The Weekend Of WikiLeaks Begins: Embargo Ends And The Torrent Of Classified Info Starts To Seep Out — And, with that, the release of 400,000 classified military documents, dubbed The Iraq War Logs, has begun. WikiLeaks, the organization that previously released 70,000 documents …
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New York Times:
The Iraq Archive: The Strands of a War
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CNN, BBC, Guardian, Outside the Beltway, The Atlantic Online, Politics Daily, The New Yorker Blog, The Huffington Post and The Nation, more at Techmeme »
Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
WikiLeaks suggests news outlets publishing Iraq docs soon
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ABCNEWS, Agence France Presse and This Just In
Om Malik / GigaOM:
There is No New Media: It's All New Consumption — “The most ominous of fallacies-the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.” -Freyda Stark — So, now television broadcasters are blocking Google TV from getting access to the content they're putting online.
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Dave Itzkoff / ArtsBeat:
‘South Park’ Apologizes for Lifted Material in ‘Inception’ Parody — Updated — The creators of “South Park,” the animated Comedy Central series, apologized on Friday to the creators of a Web comedy video satirizing the summer blockbuster “Inception”, following a recent episode of …
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Runnin' Scared and New York Magazine
Andrew Baron / TechCrunch:
The Future Of TV Is HTML — The title of this post is both a very old idea and a very new one. With the prevalence of fiber connectivity and pervasive broadband speeds, this year has been a hot one for bringing together the home computer and the living room TV.
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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Why the TV Networks Blocked Google TV (It's About the Ads)
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The Daily Beast:
Barry Diller Talks Newsweek & the Future of The Daily Beast — Today's lunch interlude at The Daily Beast Innovator Summit in New Orleans — between this morning's Peter Orszag, Spotify investor and Justin Timberlake doppelganger Sean Parker, and this afternoon's General McChrystal …
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Fast Company and SAI
David Kaplan / paidContent:
AOL's Eun: Yes, We Still Want The Best Writers, Editors — Following reports Friday, including ours, that suggested AOL (NYSE: AOL) is shifting editorial strategies again, David Eun, president of AOL Media and Studios, insists that isn't the case. The speculation was prompted …
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The Now/ledge and MediaFile
Joe Flint / Company Town:
NBC's got a ratings situation on its hands — Every now and then a number leaps out. — Friday morning it was the size of NBC's Thursday's night audience. On a night that NBC owned for decades, the network averaged less than 5 million viewers. To put it into some context …
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rbr.com
Edmund Lee / Capital New York:
My life in the pictures — On a cool, stubbornly sunny evening in April 2007 I was standing outside the Loews Theater on 34th Street, a dark suit and a Liberty tie sewn tightly around me, my wife Elizabeth, dressed more confidently in a jewel-toned column. The movie actor John Cho of Harold …
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