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Late Breaks Who Won The Media War

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Jun 04 2008 12:00am EDT

Late Breaks: Who Won the Media War?

This head-to-head analysis of the Democratic candidates' media strategies finds that Clinton outperformed Obama in traditional broadcast advertising while Obama made better use of digital media, such as social networking and email marketing. [Ad Age]

Chicago Sun-Times media critic Jim DeRogatis won't have to testify in the R. Kelly sex-tape trial but the judge ordered him to turn in his notes. [Chicago Tribune] via [Romenesko]

Indian business daily Mint (motto: "Refreshing clarity in business") marked its first anniversary by printing a full page of its mistakes over the past year. [Guardian]

Portfolio.com finance writer Felix Salmon notices a scoop hidden deep in a Wall Street Journal column: "Even as Lehman is working on selling its shares, at the same time it's buying them, which is pretty weird at best. Yet the story doesn't even hint at its scoop until burying it near the end of a story about Lehman's negotiations in Korea." [Portfolio]

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