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...Your blog has been singled out recently as having some of the best reader feedback of any blog on the web. But only a fraction of your posts have had to do with movies - many dealing with larger issues of metaphysics, philosophy, politics and the media industry. Given all the film writing you do on a weekly basis, how do you make the time to write on all these other topics...
...York Times Co. and Yahoo! will not craft a merger. It would give the newspaper a larger audience and potentially better advertising income. It would allow Yahoo! to step away from using the Associated Press, the wire service whose news stories go out to thousands of media outlets around the world, making its product dumbed down for readers...
...results of both companies put side by side are a true indication of what the recession has done to the media, old and new. With the exception of Google (GOOG), the life has gone out of the business of making big profits in the content business. Since Google is only a content aggregator, it does not qualify for the sake of comparison...
...overlay that with the fairly constant vilification of the agencies by politicians and the media. When word got out earlier this month that Fannie and Freddie were planning on paying out some $210 million in retention bonuses to 7,600 employers over the course of 18 months, lawmakers went haywire (Kellermann was pegged to receive a retention bonus of $850,000). "It's hard to see any common sense in management decisions that award hundreds of millions in bonuses when their organizations lost more than $100 billion in a year," Senator Charles Grassley said in a statement. Barney Frank, chair...
...world's beleaguered auto industry arrived in Shanghai this week for the city's 2009 auto show, unveiling their newest brands in the only car market in the world that continues to grow. Some of the show's stars are predictable, drawing crowds of reporters and photographers on Monday, media day: a stunning new Lexus convertible, the reborn Chevy Camaro from General Motors (Chinese journalists took turns lining up to be photographed in front of it) and the worldwide debut of Porsche's new luxury sedan, the Panamera...