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ESPN made some major mistakes handling the entire affair. In fact, in many ways, the network’s decisions in airing the James’ special — and its justification for making them — are a metaphor for what ails the media today. Read more: LeBron James, Espn-the-Choice, Espn, Lebron James the Choice, Media News Share and Enjoy: Bill O’Reilly apologized to Shirley Sherrod for taking her observations out of context Wednesday night on “The O’Reilly Factor.” O’Reilly, who Monday night started airing the excerpted video of Sherrod’s speech to the NAACP and calling for her resignation, aired more of the video Wednesday and apologized for not having done so prior. “I owe Ms. Sherrod [...] Bill O’Reilly apologized to Shirley Sherrod for taking her observations out of context Wednesday night on “The O’Reilly Factor.” O’Reilly, who Monday night started airing the excerpted video of Sherrod’s speech to the NAACP and calling for her resignation, aired more of the video Wednesday and apologized for not having done so prior. “I owe Ms. Sherrod [...] NEW YORK — The New York Times Co. posted its first weekly revenue growth since 2007 on Thursday, with a jump in online advertising sales offsetting further declines in print. Although net income fell 18 percent from a year ago, when the company booked a huge one-time tax gain, overall revenue climbed 1.2 percent and ad [...] Eliot Spitzer was so reckless to be on TV, he accepted a narrow from CNN for less than $1 million to host a prime-time, 8 p.m. show. A source says he’s making closer to $500,000 than $1 million, as is his co-host, Kathleen Parker. Read more: Eliot Spitzer Salary, Cnn, Eliot Spitzer CNN, Eliot Spitzer, [...] Keith Olbermann is taking a vacation from “Countdown.” The MSNBC host announced Friday that he will be taking a “couple weeks vacation off” from his show. In his place, Lawrence O’Donnell — who was named the host of the network’s upcoming new 10PM show last month — will guest-host the show for the next two weeks. Olbermann spent [...] Some early numbers are leaking on Rupert Murdoch’s London Times paywall experiment. After a month of forced free registrations and two weeks of a full paywall, Dan Sabbagh at Beehivecity.com says these are the numbers: 150,000 registrations (PaidContent says this is 12% of the online reader base) Apparently, the 15,000 paid subscriptions [...] According to a recent poll from Pew Research Center, a whopping 64% of Americans judge that print editions of newspapers will be nonexistent by 2050. The poll question — which focused mainly on the role of paper in the near future and less on the status of new media — was questioned in conjunction with other [...] The war of words between Keith Olbermann and Tucker Carlson just keeps heating up. After Carlson’s Daily Caller site bought the rights to the KeithOlbermann.com domain name Wednesday, Olbermann struck back, tweeting that he thinks the go is illegal, and pointing out that Carlson himself won back the rights to TuckerCarlson.com in 2008, after someone else [...] The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), the country’s TV regulator, has told Quebec media giant Quebecor it will not receive a category A, “must-carry” broadcast license for Sun TV News Channel, an upcoming right wing all-news channel to be modeled on Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News channel stateside. Read more: Fox News, Media News, Canada, [...] |
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