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• Today's Bancroft-o-Meter: Busted!

  Published: July 30, 2007, 5:34 pm

  Tags: In Other News, Bancroft Family, Dow Jones, News Corp, Newspapers, Rupert Murdoch, The Wall Street Journal

  Photo: Getty Images There's around a half-hour left to what's nominally the deadline for the Bancrofts to approve a sale of Dow Jones, their family media company and the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. So what's going happen? The short answer: No one knows. The Denver trusts are still holding out for

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• I am Safer Because of eBay's New Gun Policy

  Published: August 1, 2007, 9:45 pm

  Tags: Link Fest, Commentary, Guns, Proactive, Baltimore, Contributing, Sale, Newspapers, Decided, Violence

  that the sale of guns in newspapers was contributing to the gun violence in Baltimore and they were being proactive in doing their part to help. These many years later... Visit Big Dog's Weblog for the rest of the story...

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• Less News Is Fit to Print

  Published: August 6, 2007, 10:55 am

  Tags: Intel, Newspapers, The New York Times

  Today's Times, and Friday's. Like us, you no doubt got up this morning and headed right to the front door, eager to pick up your morning paper and experience the first day of the rest of your Times. The new paper is the same height as before, but it's an inch and a half narrower, bringing it "to the national newspaper 12-inch standard," as the "To

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• TimesSelect: Requiem for a Fee

  Published: August 7, 2007, 11:25 am

  Tags: In Other News, Internet, Newspapers, The New York Times, Timesselect

  A day after the Times debuted its new, slimmed-down format, the Post today reports that the Gray Lady is set to shed something else: TimesSelect. As soon as some technical kinks are worked out, Murdoch's paper says, the two-year-old experiment will end and your Maureen Dowd will, once again, be gloriously free. So what to think of its brief life?

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• Outsourcing editors in San Gabe

  Published: August 6, 2007, 3:01 pm

  Tags: Los Angeles, Newspapers

  The copy desk for the San Gabriel Valley Newspaper group in the LANG empire — that's the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Pasadena Star-News and I think they include Whittier — is being moved to San Bernardino, according to newsroom buzz. The copy editors were told Thursday that all twelve of them (down from 17 not so long ago) are going.

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• Not Much Analysis in This Analysis'

  Published: August 7, 2007, 1:40 pm

  Tags: Media Bias Debate, Cable News, Mcclatchy Newspapers, New Media, News Corp, Talk Radio, Wall Street Journal

  Steven Thomma for McClatchy Newspapers, is less of an honest look at the current media landscape than it is a yearning of the days of yore. The clue is in the third paragraph: All this comes as the traditional media landscape is shifting with earthquake force. Newspapers are watching readers shift to the Web. The big TV networks are losing

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• TimeSelect Firewall Reportedly to Come Tumblin' Down

  Published: August 7, 2007, 2:32 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Frank Rich, Maureen Dowd, Paul Krugman, Media Business, New York Times, Major Newspapers

  The TimeSelect firewall at the contracting New York Times is coming down soon, according to a report by its growing rival, the New York Post: The New York Times is poised to stop charging readers for online access to its Op-Ed columnists and other content, The Post has learned. ..... The number of Web-only subscribers who pay $7.95 a month or

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• Giving the finger

  Published: August 7, 2007, 9:25 pm

  Tags: Los Angeles, Newspapers, Television

  Anyone who has watched the regular KOCE reports from the Register newsroom in Orange County knows it's hard enough to get print schlubs to give good television. It's even more challenging to do a quality show when one of the newspaper's editors all but moons the camera in the background. Now, it's been a difficult week at the Register's "content

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• Rupert Murdoch Peels an Onion

  Published: August 8, 2007, 11:58 am

  Tags: In Other News, Myspace, News Corp, Newspapers, Rupert Murdoch, The Onion

  Lost in all the Wall Street Journal drama is the news of Rupert Murdoch getting his paws on another bastion of American journalism: The Onion. The beloved if slightly over-the-hill humor newspaper has signed on to provide exclusive content to MySpace, including audio podcasts and video from its misbegotten Onion News Network offshoot. The paper

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• So much for cutbacks

  Published: August 9, 2007, 3:07 pm

  Tags: Los Angeles, Newspapers, Sports

  There's some chuckling going on in Singleton newsrooms over the front page of Tuesday's sports section in the San Gabriel Newspaper Group papers, San Bernardino Sun and Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. Haven't seen it myself, but I'm told that the headline and caption featured Barry Bonds hitting his record-breaking 756th home run on Monday night -

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• Register editor: CP Smith not guilty

  Published: August 9, 2007, 9:59 pm

  Tags: Los Angeles, Media People, Newspapers

  There's no question that CP Smith, A1 editor of the Orange County Register, was caught on camera picking his nose behind a TV set in the newsroom. Also no dispute that KOCE's news director complained and threatened the Register with reprisals, after being told it wasn't the first time Smith had been disruptive. But the Register's top editor, Ken

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• An Unamusing Musing On Stu Oops! I've Done It Again' Bykofsky

  Published: August 10, 2007, 6:47 am

  Tags: Media Criticism, Internet News Media, Media, Msm, Internet, Newspapers

  Stu has railed against newspapers’ embrace of the Internet, which is beyond stoopid as the ‘Net is the biggest reason he may be still be drawing a paycheck a few years from now, but he did lay bare a truth or two in writing that: “Like dinosaurs, newspapers have massive bodies and brains the size of walnuts. “They

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• This Is Not About Scott Beauchamp

  Published: August 10, 2007, 5:22 am

  Tags: Blogging, Media Criticism, Internet News Media, Media, Msm, Internet, Newspapers

  As I have written early and often, the mainstream media has been painfully slow to embrace the Internet and even slower to come around to the blog as a way to leaven its loaf, attract new readers or (gasp!) even win back readers it has lost. Joe Gandelman, Robert Stein, Alan Mutter and Yours Truly are examples of Dead Tree Era journalists who

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• Columnist Wishes For Another 911

  Published: August 10, 2007, 3:11 am

  Tags: War On Terror, Media Criticism, Media, 9 11, Terrorism, Msm, Newspapers

  Yes, someone has finally written it. And we just KNEW this day would come…didn’t we? A columnist is opening wishing for another 911 to unite Americans (what about the innocent lives that would cost). The link is HERE. And yes, yours truly agrees with the column writer that it is indeed a “sick” sentiment — no

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• Poll: U.S. Public Distrusts Mainstream News Media More Than Ever

  Published: August 10, 2007, 3:08 am

  Tags: Blogging, Polls, Media Criticism, Internet News Media, Media, News, Msm, Progressives, Newspapers

  if a shrinking news hole in newspapers, diminishing advertising, and sinking readership isn’t enough…as if broadcast and cable networks pulling out all stops to survive in the ratings-dependent dog-eat-dog world of broadcast/cable journalism isn’t enough…now there’s a new poll that shows Americans distrust the

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