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Mixed Media

by Jeff Bercovici

Main

Late Breaks: Questions to Ponder Correction of the Day: Kristol's Con...

Aug 19 2008 8:52AM EDT

-Coke leads Pepsi worldwide, but not in China. Could the Olympics change that? [WSJ]

-Meanwhile, exactly how screwed are Coke, Visa, Nike and all the other marketers who built their campaigns around injured Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang? [NYT]

-The CW wants you to know it's not sending out screeners of the new 90210, but not because the show sucks, honest. In fact, it's because it's so good. Yeah. [THR]

-Elle editor in chief Roberta Myers is royally pissed at not being given a proper chance to respond in New York's story on the power struggle at her magazine. [WWD]

-A book that depicts adolescent journalist Tintin all grown up and doing the nasty has been pulled from bookstores in Spain. [NYT]

-Google will treat bloggers to smoothies, massages and all the candy they can eat at the Democratic convention. But if they want a pedicure, they'll have to hoof it on over to Arianna Huffington's spa. [WSJ]

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