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Mixed Media

by Jeff Bercovici

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Jul 22 2008 8:56AM EDT

-TiVo is introducing a buy-while-you-watch feature with the help of Amazon, and preparing technology that will let viewers buy what they see in commercials and even in-show product placements. [NYT]

-Speaking of which, TV news has crossed the product-placement frontier, with a Meredith-owned Fox station accepting dollars from McDonalds to feature coffee cups during the lifestyle segments of its morning show. [LV Sun]

-Both Ebert and Roeper are quitting Ebert and Roeper at the Movies. [Tribune]

-Katie Couric is struggling within "the last bastion of male dominance," ie. the evening news game. [Haaretz via Gawker]

-Bill O'Reilly and Keith Olbermann aren't just obnoxious when the camera's on them. [Radar]

-Breaking: Politicians can't just publish whatever piece of crap they feel like on the op-ed page of The New York Times. It actually has to be edited first! (The McCain camp calls this "liberal media bias.") [AP]

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