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NY1 Anchors 2/3 of the Way to Terrible Trend
Hamilton Nolan · 11/25/09 09:26AMObama Pledges up to 30,000 More Troops for Afghanistan
Ravi Somaiya · 11/25/09 08:31AMWashington Post Pulls Out of the Rest of America
Hamilton Nolan · 11/24/09 05:26PMA Glimpse of Google without News Corp.: No Big Loss
Hamilton Nolan · 11/24/09 04:51PMcityfile · 11/24/09 02:53PM
• France's first lady, Carla Bruni, will star in Woody Allen's next movie. [AFP]
• Time Inc. is shutting down InStyle Weddings and laying off nine people in the process. The company also let 15 staffers go at Fortune today. [Gawker, NYP]
• Adam Lambert's racy performance at the AMAs has stirred up some drama, in case you haven't heard; ABC says it's been flooded with complaints. [NYT]
• In related news, Lambert will not be appearing on GMA due to the fallout, but he will be on the Early Show and the Late Show with David Letterman. [HL]
• The Washington Post is closing its NYC, LA, Chicago bureaus. [WaPo]
• Time Inc., Condé Nast and Hearst are setting up a company to "allow them to take the digital future into their own hands." Better late than never! [NYO]
• Sarah Palin's Going Rogue sold 700,000 copies in its first week, sadly. [AP]
Time Inc. Folding InStyle Weddings
Hamilton Nolan · 11/24/09 02:15PMTime Inc's Pre-Thanksgiving Layoffs
Hamilton Nolan · 11/24/09 01:18PMPlayboy Now Able to Afford Tara Reid
Hamilton Nolan · 11/24/09 11:46AMThe Coming Search Engine Media Wars
Hamilton Nolan · 11/24/09 10:31AMCharges Reveal How 20 Americans Came to Join Somali Terrorists
Ravi Somaiya · 11/24/09 09:17AMCarl Kasell Escapes NPR News Gig Alive
Hamilton Nolan · 11/23/09 02:40PMcityfile · 11/23/09 01:30PM
• New Moon smashed expectations this weekend, racking up $140 million at the box office and setting a record for the third-biggest opening ever. [NYT]
• News Corp. and Microsoft are in talks to remove News Corp. content from Google and have it appear on Bing, Microsoft's search engine. [FT, Bloomberg]
• O is slumping, so Hearst is now planning to makeover the magazine. [NYP]
• Talks between GE and Vivendi over NBC seem to have hit a roadblock. [WSJ]
• Project Runway's finale generated solid ratings for Lifetime, but it still didn't reel in the number of viewers it did when it aired on Bravo. [WWD]
• Scary: Glenn Beck is now looking to be more of a "political organizer." [NYT]
• Also scary: Lou Dobbs wasn't kidding about running for president. [NYDN]
• Katie Couric: serious anchor by day, sexy dancer by night. [Gawker]
Andrea Peyser, Lesbian Racist
Hamilton Nolan · 11/23/09 10:51AMHot Foot Hottie Had Dirty Doorman Fetish
Hamilton Nolan · 11/23/09 09:30AMDominic Carter Guilty, Still Screwed
Hamilton Nolan · 11/23/09 09:03AMCatastrophe, Disaster, Calamity and a Kayak.
Ravi Somaiya · 11/23/09 08:40AMRavi Somaiya · 11/23/09 06:15AM
The Fallacy Behind Efforts to Save 'Public Service Journalism'
John Cook · 11/20/09 04:38PMcityfile · 11/20/09 03:50PM
• Oprah got all teary today when she announced she'll end her talk show two years from now. Meanwhile her upstart cable network announced it'll launch in January 2011, eight months before her talk show goes off the air. [EW, THR]
• Oprah isn't the only one planning her goodbyes. Bill Moyers announced today that he's retiring and will wrap up his weekly PBS show in April 2010. [NYT]
• Former NY1 anchor Dominic Carter was found guilty of misdemeanor attempted assault today for roughing up his wife last year. [NYDN]
• Last night's season finale of Project Runway was the highest-rated episode of the season; meanwhile, winner Irina Shabayeva describes what's next for her.
• The new Twilight sequel, New Moon, isn't just causing excitable teens to pass out in droves. It's also on track to break a few box office records. [AFP, AP]
• More on the bloodshed at BusinessWeek the past few days. [FBNY]
• Tina Brown has herself a new right-hand man at The Daily Beast. [NYP]
• Yet another book by reality TV star Lauren Conrad is on the way. [NYDN]
• Phil Falcone's Harbinger has cut his stake in the Times once again. [Reuters]
• The scariest news ever: Lou Dobbs has left open the possibility that he'll make a run for the White House in 2012. And he wasn't kidding. [Reuters]