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Mixed Media

by Jeff Bercovici

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Rupe's Troops Pile on Tough-Luck 'Ti... MySpace Guys Net $30M in New Deal

Oct 18 2007 9:17AM EDT

-Revenue is up substantially at Dow Jones, beating expectations. Rub it in, why don't you, Rupert? [Reuters]

-Speaking of Murdoch, here are his thoughts on putting The New York Times out of business: "That would be nice." [Guardian]

-You know who else would like to bring down the Times? Mallard Fillmore. That is one seriously angry duck. [Mallard Fillmore via JWR]

-What you can learn from Google searches: People in Dublin are hungover, guys in Australia dig lesbians, and Germans can't stop thinking about Hitler. [NYP]

-What journalist watered down his Rush Limbaugh profile after Limbaugh threatened to dig up dirt on him? New York's David Edelstein thinks it was Richard Corliss of Time. [NY mag]

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