"The same Constitution that protects the freedom of the press requires obedience to final decisions of the courts and respect for their rulings and judgments," Norm Pearlstine, editor-in-chief of Time Inc., said in a statement announcing that the company will comply with a court order to deliver documents, eliminating the need for soon-to-be-jailed Matt Cooper to testify.
We confess to being confused and frankly a bit troubled when we saw this CNN.com headline this morning:
This press release just in from "the worldwide leader in adult entertainment for women [sic]":
New Scientist breaks some imporant news for magazine circulation execs today:
The Supreme Court announced this morning that it won't hear Matt Cooper and Judith Miller's appeals in the Valerie Plame case, which means the Time and New York Times reporters have basically exhausted their chances to not go to jail.
Man-about-Michael's Simon Dumenco kicks of his new Advertising Age column today with a list of all the ethical policies he'll be following as "Media Guy." The weird thing is, we're pretty sure he stole these rules from us.
Waiting for the big winner in our "Do You Have What It Takes To Be An Associate Lifestyle Editor At Life & Style Magazine" contest? Yeah, well, it turns out: So are we.
It's Friday, which means it's time for the second installment of Sexy Jon Fine's Sexy BusinessWeek column. No more manufactured crises for intrepid reporter Fine; this week he's got a real, potentially catastrophic crisis. It's the kind of enterprise reporting BusinessWeek hired him for: hard-hitting, news-breaking, ahead-of-the-curve, investigative, holy-shit news you won't find anywhere else.
Attendees of the AP Sports Editor convention in Orlando, Florida have no doubt been enjoying themselves — after all, what better place to study the retardation of sports gimp Mitch Albom than from the plush confines of the Ritz-Carlton? Alas, the conference has been soured by color lines when black and Hispanic attendees were denied equal treatment:
The Washington Post has it up to the proverbial "here" with the state of modern celebrity:
The ever-expanding monster that is glossy celebrity-gossip mags has finally run up against the one obstacle that might be able to stop it: Available printing-press time. Our operative in celebland reports:
A mass e-mail recently forwarded to us:
In its ongoing but inexplicable campaign to prove that people in flyover states have no idea what they're talking about, the Chicago Tribune has for the third consecutive year published a list of the 50 best magazines in country as chosen by the paper's arts-section staff. Some of the confounding findings:
You already know what we're going to say: Another week, another issue of the New York Press, which is growing dangerously thin. We've had "fun" comparing its page count to that of The Onion, but the gap between a formerly hot alt-weekly and a satirical free paper has grown so very small that to even compare page counts would make us irrationally sad.
A writing test administered by Life & Style magazine showed up in our inbox this afternoon:
When you're down and out and looking for help, there's only one place to go: the MediaBistro job listings.
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