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Mixed Media

by Jeff Bercovici

Main

Barry Diller Prefers Food to Convers... Duly Quoted: When Swag Meets Journalism

Jan 30 2008 4:50PM EST

-Google won't be buying The New York Times in the foreseeable future, according to this Google exec. All yours, Mr. Bloomberg. [I Want Media]

-You will soon be able to watch Don Imus on TV in towns that don't have hitching posts or general stores. [NYT]

-Great lede for a media-crit column: "One of the joys of the presidential campaign season is that it allows the Washington press corps to ignore even more substantive stories than usual." [Radar]

-Women's magazine editors say they won't be endorsing Hillary Clinton, and one of them, Ladies' Home Journal's Diane Salvatore, was offended at being asked. [NYO]

-Former Random House editor in chief Daniel Menaker is starting an Internet TV show about books. [NYT]

-Which photo is worth more: Nicole Richie's baby, or Christina Aguilera's baby? It's a trick question: Neither is worth a damn! Unless you are a celebrity tabloid. In that case, the answer is Aguilera's, by half a million bucks. [Gawker]

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