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Prominent Journalists Lie About Not Reading the Drudge Report
John Cook · 09/09/09 11:07AMThe Weinsteins Dodge a Bullet
cityfile · 08/24/09 01:44PM• Harvey and Bob Weinstein are breathing a sigh of relief today. Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds did better than expected at the box office this weekend, raking in $37.6 million in sales. Not that one good weekend will be enough to lift the studio out of the financial mess it is in. [NYT, THR, WSJ]
• Related: In what may be a first for a movie opening, Inglourious Basterds seems to have benefited by a "crest of tweeting goodwill." [THR]
• Some 48 years after it was first published, Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking is now No. 1 on the New York Times' best-seller list. [NYT]
• Has the Glenn Beck brouhaha made advertisers skittish about buying commercial time during political shows in general? [AdAge, Politico]
• Jared Kushner's New York Observer is launching a new paper called The Commercial Observer. It's about commercial real estate, naturally. [NYT]
• Magazine newsstand sales continue to suffer, not surprisingly. [AdAge]
Fat-Hating, Midwesterner-Mocking New York Times Writer Taken to Task
Foster Kamer · 08/23/09 03:45PMBill Keller's Had Enough of Your 'Jokes.' Jerk
Hamilton Nolan · 07/10/09 12:47PMNetwork News Declines, TLC's Big Night, MySpace Cuts
cityfile · 06/23/09 12:27PM• The bleak outlook for network news is getting bleaker: Both the CBS Evening News and ABC's World News suffered all-time ratings lows last week. [HuffPo]
• CBS chief Les Moonves's compensation was slashed by 76 percent last year. He still earned $13.6 million, though, so don't feel too bad for him. [Crain's]
• Depressing: Monday's breakup episode of TLC's Jon & Kate Plus 8 was the most-watched episode of the show ever with 10.6 million viewers. [THR]
• MySpace is closing four of its international offices and cutting two-thirds of its staff abroad advertising falls and Facebook and Twitter take over. [NYT]
• A woman in Massachusetts has filed a lawsuit against Elisabeth Hasselbeck for allegedly ripping off her self-published book on celiac disease. [BH]
• Bravo honcho Andy Cohen is going to be hosting a live show once a week called Watch What Happens. You can watch what happens on July 16. [LAT]
Bill Keller's Grand Media Tour
Hamilton Nolan · 06/22/09 09:10AMWhy Did Nobody Pick Up The David Rohde Kidnapping Story?
Foster Kamer · 06/20/09 06:15PMBill Keller Will Go Wherever He Wants, Suckas
Hamilton Nolan · 06/18/09 01:02PMTimes Was Pretty Sure That Daily Show Thing Went Well
Hamilton Nolan · 06/17/09 10:10AMBill Keller Can't Google 'Hooker' in Iran
The Cajun Boy · 06/17/09 01:40AMNew York Times Editor Bill Keller Is Useless in Tehran
John Cook · 06/15/09 11:05AMThe Daily Show Visits the New York Times, Purveyors of 'Aged News'
The Cajun Boy · 06/11/09 05:20AMResurrections, Meltdowns & Frenemies
cityfile · 05/20/09 12:02PM• Portfolio isn't over and done with, after all: An affiliate of Condé Nast—based in Charlotte, weirdly—plans to revive the magazine's website. [NYO]
• Josh Marshall has accepted Maureen Dowd's apology for swiping some of his copy; and Dowd's new column today is Marshall-free, thankfully. [TPM, NYT]
• Upfronts 2009: What the CW and CBS have in store for the fall. [THR, THR]
• Is Jann Wenner looking to poach Condé Nast honcho David Carey? [NYM]
• Times executive editor Bill Keller says Google is the paper's "frenemy." [NYO]
• CNBC's Jeff Macke had a meltdown on the air yesterday. [Gawker]
New York Times Editor Joins Ranks of the Twitterati
Owen Thomas · 05/05/09 04:31PMWSJ Editor Slams 'Brain Dead' Times Readers
Ryan Tate · 04/29/09 11:04PMNYT Editor: 'There Is Nothing Sacrosanct about the Current Size of the Newsroom'
Gabriel Snyder · 04/16/09 10:49AMNew York Times executive editor Bill Keller has updated his staff on the cuts he's making to the newsroom budget. There had already been word that the City and Escapes sections — both largely produced by freelancers — were being scrapped. But today's memo makes it clear that the paper is looking to trim its freelance budgets everywhere, including ending the weekly fashion spread in the New York Times Magazine.
Investigations Don't Require Ink, or Actual Investigation
Owen Thomas · 04/03/09 02:22PMTimes Readers to the Rescue, Spitzer to the Today Show
cityfile · 04/03/09 11:34AM• Bill Keller says that New York Times readers have offered to donate money to keep the paper alive, which is both very sad and very sweet. [Politico, NYP]
• Hearst has asked all of its newspapers to reduce costs by 20 percent. [BN]
• The launch of Oprah's cable network has been pushed back to 2010. [NYP]
• Eliot Spitzer will hit the Today show on Monday, presumably to talk about the financial crisis, not about his personal life. [NYO]
• Tensions are reportedly running high at MSNBC after the network decided to give Ed Schultz a show and bump Norah O'Donnell and David Shuster. [P6]
• Breaking! The media appears to be rather fond of Michelle Obama. [WaPo]
• Last night's series finale of ER generated big ratings for NBC. [NYT]
• Is Google about to acquire Twitter? Not so much, says Kara Swisher. [ATD]