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8:40 AM ET, December 28, 2021

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Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Sources: five months after Meghan McCain's departure, The View struggles to find a permanent Republican replacement who doesn't deny the 2020 election results  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  Before taking off for the holidays, the four long-standing hosts of “The View” had a message …
Matt Schudel / Washington Post:
Grace Mirabella, who served as Vogue's EIC between 1971 and 1988 and launched a rival magazine called Mirabella with Rupert Murdoch in 1989, dies at 92  —  Grace Mirabella, who was the most influential voice in fashion during her 17 years as the top editor of Vogue magazine …
Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Sony's Spider-Man: No Way Home crosses $1B at the global box office, the first pandemic-era movie to do so; only Infinity War and Endgame reached $1B faster  —  “Spider-Man: No Way Home” unwrapped the best Christmas gift of all, becoming the first pandemic-era movie to cross $1 billion at the global box office.
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: following Michael Corn's departure from ABC, Disney wanted a strict NDA so sexual allegations about Corn and Disney's handling thereof wouldn't surface  —  A lawsuit claims executives knew of misconduct at the key revenue generator ‘Good Morning America’ but didn't follow up and discouraged an official report
Committee to Protect Journalists:
Taliban-affiliated militia detains the owner of an independent TV broadcaster, and one week ago a journalist in Kabul was beaten and stabbed  —  Taliban authorities should immediately and unconditionally release Aref Noori and ensure that members of the press are able to work freely, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
Discussion: @pressfreedom
Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost:
Survey: 19% of US households subscribed to virtual multichannel video providers in Q3 2021, up from 10% in Q3 2019; 49% subscribed to four or more OTT services  —  - by Karlene Lukovitz @KLmarketdaily, Yesterday  —  Virtual multichannel video providers (vMVPDs) are now in 19% of U.S. broadband households …
Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak:
US judge awards Amazon, PRH, and 12 authors $7.8M in damages and issues a permanent injunction against a group of sites offering pirated ebooks at low prices  —  In a summer 2020 lawsuit, Amazon Content Services, publisher Penguin Random House and several authors including John Grisham and Lee Child …
Discussion: @publisherslunch
Bloomberg:
Polish President Andrzej Duda vetoes a media law that would have forced Discovery to sell over 50% of its domestic TV network, after protests and US pressure  —  - Veto lets Discovery continue running popular broadcaster TVN  — Chances are slim for divided parliament to overrun Duda's veto
Mark Brown / The Guardian:
Mail on Sunday prints a story admitting it infringed on Meghan Markle's copyright and will pay “financial remedies” for publishing her letter to her father  —  Newspaper runs front-page statement and 64-word story stating it infringed copyright over letter to father
 
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