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Jan 03 2008 12:00am EDT

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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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