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Apr 08 2009 3:04pm EDT

Late Breaks: Peter Bart, Push Polls, YouTube, more

-Peter Bart may have been Variety's editor in chief, but his real job was helping the showbiz trade earn piles of money, says my colleague Amy Wallace. [Portfolio]

-The New York Times should bother to learn the difference between message-testing and a push poll before it accuses politicians like Mike Bloomberg of using the latter. [Peter Feld]

-YouTube is losing vast amounts of money, but it's making a tiny amount of progress in selling advertising across more of its videos. Yay? [Ad Age]

-Discover's CEO and one of its bloggers promised to get science tattoos if the magazine's website could triple its traffic. Now they have to make good. [Discover]. □

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