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Tresa Baldas / Detroit Free Press:
Backpage.com says 22 more websites are linked to dead Detroit women — Backpage.com, a classified advertising website, said today that computer and forensic evidence shows at least 70 different escort ads on 22 websites are linked to the investigation involving four women whose bodies …
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Mark Guarino / Christian Science Monitor:
After deaths in Detroit, Backpage.com advertising comes under scrutiny — Four women found dead in Detroit over the weekend had profiles on Backpage.com, a website offering escort services. The website has received attention before for a potential connection to illegal activity.
WXYZ-TV:
Police investigate more than a dozen websites in women's murders — DETROIT (WXYZ) - Sources are telling 7 Action News the police are looking into more than a dozen website in connection with the investigation into four women murdered in the city of Detroit in the last few weeks.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Despite kingmaking expectations, Fox News seems neutral among GOP field — Even before the first Republican presidential candidates declared they were running, pundits and political operatives alike were debating the Fox News Channel's potential influence on the GOP race.
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
An Election Year Dawns Without Keith Olbermann — Keith Olbermann, who came to Current TV this year to remake the channel and compete against his old home, MSNBC, is sitting out the biggest political nights of the season. — Despite being the biggest star on the fledging channel …
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Frances Martel / Mediaite:
It Begins...NY Times Report Suggests Tension Between Olbermann And Current TV
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Cable Channels Set to Begin Election Year Coverage
Cable Channels Set to Begin Election Year Coverage
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Ahmed Al Omran / NPR:
Basil Al-Sayed, Who Chronicled The Syrian Uprising, Is Dead — This was the last thing Basil al-Sayed, a citizen journalist in Syria, filmed before he was shot in the head by security forces: — According to activist Rami Jarrah, yesterday, al-Sayed succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in the restive city of Homs.
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Dylan Byers / The Politico:
MSNBC now disclosing Bain Capital connection — Starting on last night's Ed Show with Ed Schultz, MSNBC anchors are now disclosing their parent company's ties to Bain Capital, the buyout firm co-founded by Mitt Romney. — In July 2008, NBC Universal, Bain Capital and Blackstone Group bought …
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
News Corp investors face risk of patriarch ‘not being in charge’ — The Financial Times's Lex column argues that the cost to News Corp of the phone hacking scandal is its “most overlooked consequence.” — It scuppered the company's £7.5bn bid to buy the 61% of BSkyB it doesn't already own …
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Eric Deggans / St. Petersburg Times:
Columnist Ernest Hooper to become Brandon Bureau Chief for Tampa Bay Times — It's a season of change at the soon-to-be Tampa Bay Times, as longtime columnist Ernest Hooper becomes chief of the newspaper's Brandon bureau full-time. Hooper will still write columns, only not as often …
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Peter Schorsch / Saint Peters Blog:
The last vestiges of the St. Petersburg Times
Chicago Tribune:
Tribune Co. bankruptcy case on hold until May — Tribune Co.'s long-running sojourn in bankruptcy shows no sign of ending soon. — A federal judge said in a ruling Thursday that he won't hold a confirmation hearing on plans to end the three-year bankruptcy until May at the earliest.
Paul Hitlin / PEJ:
Bloggers Argue Over The 2011 “Lie of the Year” — When a Pulitzer Prize winning fact-checking site announced its “Lie of the Year” for 2011, it set off a partisan firestorm in the blogosphere triggered by liberal critics of that choice. — According to PolitiFact.com …
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Economist:
Blogs are blamed for cheapening debate in some fields. Yet they have enriched economics — Blogs are blamed for cheapening debate in some fields. Yet they have enriched economics — from the print edition — “LET Truth and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse …
The Huffington Post:
CNN's New Morning Show Gets Name And Debut Date — Update: CNN announced the names of its new morning shows. The 5-7 a.m. show will be called “Early Start.” Soledad O'Brien's 7-9 a.m. program will be titled “Starting Point.” — CNN will debut its new morning show led by host Soledad O'Brien on January 2, 2012.
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Lens:
From North Korea, an Altered Procession — The funeral of Kim Jong-il on Wednesday called to mind the best stage-managed Communist state productions: the falling snow, the wailing mourners, the perfectly spaced limousines and rows of chest-beating men. — So perhaps it was because the scene …
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