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-The producers of the Golden Globes and the WGA were close to an interim agreement that would allow the show to go on as usual. Then they weren't. [Variety]
-The Weather Channel is on the block, and likely to fetch more than $5 billion. [NYT]
-After 42 years with Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Tom Wolfe is publishing his new book with Little, Brown. [Media Mob]
-Two magazines you've probably never heard of, Land Report and Golf Connoisseur, have become the first to go under in 2008. [FishbowlNY]
-Perez Hilton says his report that Fidel Castro had died wasn't necessarily wrong. It could be that Castro's just doing a great job hiding it. [Radar]
-Publicly-traded newspaper companies lost 26 percent of their aggregate value last year. [Reflections of a Newsosaur]
-Hillary Clinton is the only one of the leading Democratic presidential candidates who won't allow herself to be interviewed by Michael Moore for Rolling Stone. [Media Mob]
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- Oct 6 2008 3:48PM EDT
- Prediction: The End of the Magazine Issue
- Oct 6 2008 1:08PM EDT
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- Oct 6 2008 1:55AM EDT
- 'The Economist' Tops 'Ad Age' Hot List
- Oct 5 2008 9:11PM EDT
- Katzenberg: 3-D Is the New Talkie
- Oct 5 2008 8:53PM EDT
- Pelosi Promises Shield Law for Journalists
- Oct 5 2008 8:06PM EDT
- Late Breaks: She Reads 'Highlights,' Obviously
- Oct 3 2008 6:34PM EDT
- Gawker Media Cuts Jobs, Suspends Bonuses
- Oct 3 2008 1:47PM EDT
- Impoco Turns Up at 'Men's Journal'
- Oct 3 2008 12:22PM EDT
- 'I Hope You Hit a Whale on Your Way to France'
- Oct 3 2008 11:09AM EDT
- Is 'Foreign Policy' Deal 'a Monkey-Gland Injection'?
- Oct 3 2008 10:59AM EDT
- Debate Afterthoughts: Palin, Ifill, More Palin
- Oct 3 2008 9:56AM EDT
- Idle Chatter: Fox Biz Shows Up, Shown Up
- Oct 3 2008 8:50AM EDT
- Late Breaks: Snarking the Hand That Feeds You
- Oct 2 2008 4:49PM EDT
- John McCain's Weird TV Habits
- Oct 2 2008 4:27PM EDT
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