Mediagazer: Google TV Gets Static (Mike Shields/Adweek)

8:10 AM ET, November 8, 2010

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Olbermann, Impartiality and MSNBC — MSNBC, worried that its reputation as a fair broker of the news hung in the balance, sent Keith Olbermann to the woodshed on Friday for an unpaid suspension because he had donated $7,200 to some of the Democratic politicians he had championed on his hit show “Countdown.”

Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
Keith Olbermann Will Return To MSNBC Tuesday

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Glynnis MacNicol / Mediaite:
Report: Olbermann Was Suspended For Refusing To Apologize On Camera

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Wall Street Journal:

AOL Hires Advisers, With Eye on Yahoo — AOL Inc. has hired financial advisers to explore various strategic options for the company, one of which includes a possible tie-up with bigger rival Yahoo Inc., people familiar with the matter said. — In recent days, AOL's advisers …

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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

AOL's Patch Has Hired 600 Journalists in 2010 - Has Big Traffic Night for Midterm Elections — NEW YORK — Patch, a network of over 300 local news sites, saw its traffic surge by 300 percent on November 2 as visitors sought local results of the mid-term elections.

Lucia Moses / Mediaweek:

Forbes: Reinvention or Regression? — Are paid blogs the path to reinvention or destruction? — Forbes.com, launched in 1996 when most media companies hadn't a clue about the Web, was once held up as the poster child for how to build an old-media brand online.

Edmund Lee / AdAge:

AOL's Attempt to Spruce Up Its Sites Washes Away Ad Revenue — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — It's going to get worse before it gets better. — That's been CEO Tim Armstrong's message since he took the job of fixing sick patient AOL more than 18 months ago. Anyone looking for a glimmer of turnaround won't find much in the numbers.

Mike Shields / Adweek:

Google TV Gets Static — Search giant fumbles relationship with networks — The biggest flop of the new fall TV season wasn't Fox's Lone Star or ABC's My Generation. — It's Google TV. — The engineers at the search goliath appear to have pulled off the double whammy of disappointing …

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ABC News:

The Guardian and The Web — MARK COLVIN: Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation this week released some figures on the success or otherwise of its experiment in paid online journalism, the project which has put the London Times and Sunday Times behind a paywall.

Lauren A. E. Schuker / Wall Street Journal:

Chernin to Start Asia Venture — Former News Corp. President to Launch Hong Kong-Based Media Company — A venture led by former News Corp. President Peter Chernin is expected Monday to announce the launch of a media start-up in Asia, a move that shows the growing importance of the region and its audiences to American companies.

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

Bad News for Liberals May Be Good News for a Liberal Magazine — Other than perhaps the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, there were few places as despondent on election night as the Manhattan offices of The Nation, the 146-year-old journal of fiery leftist opinion.

Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:

Card for a Card: AmEx Hires Conan — In an effort to tap into the buzz surrounding Conan O'Brien's return to late-night television, American Express Co. has enlisted the comedian as a pitchman. — The credit-card company will begin airing a new commercial featuring the funnyman on Monday …

Discussion: New York Times

Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

Tremor-Scanscout Merger Creates Web Video Ad Player on Par With Hulu's — Wave of Consolidation in Space Driven by Advertiser Demands for Reach — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Lots of advertisers want to buy online video — they just don't want to buy it in dribs and drabs from a bunch of different places.

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joongangdaily.joins.com:

My time in North Korean jails: Journalist Lee remembers — When she was imprisoned in North Korea in 2009, American journalist Euna Lee collected sleeping pills and considered committing suicide with them. — ¡°I thought to myself, 'If I died, my family would overcome this brutal reality …

Discussion: The Korea Times