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Idle Chatter: Which Way Does the Wind Blow?
Time Warner will make an "extremely price disciplined and price sensitive bid" for The Weather Channel. Current bids are around $3.5 billion; owner Landmark Communications is hoping for $5 billion. [WSJ]
Richard Siklos at Fortune looks at the ways Drudge has evolved, or hasn't, in 14 years of muckraking. [Fortune]
Journalism students don't like broadcast news because of the "fear-mongering crime reports, salacious coverage of the entertainment industries, reporters and anchor people glammed up to look like models." [FishbowlNY] via [Online Journalism Review]
Federal prosecutors are using the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act to target films shooting on location abroad. So far, the producers of Rescue Dawn and Sahara has been cited. [Portfolio]
A new luxury magazine, Manhattan, will start to publish in September and will cover "things that matter to sophisticated New Yorkers." Editor-in-chief Richard Martin says that doesn't include economics, politics, or sports. [NYP]
by George Quraishi
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