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Sarah Palin’s Supreme Court Answers Not As Gafftastic As Predicted
Turns out the Alaska governor couldn’t name a Supreme Court ruling she ‘disagreed’ with, not, as previously rumored, any ruling at all.
Posted 10/02/08 in Daily Intel : Early and Often
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Jann Wenner Shopping ‘Us Weekly’ to Condé Nast for $750 Million
Plus, the latest with UBS, Bonnie Fuller, and 15 Central Park West, in our daily industry roundup.
Posted 06/30/08 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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Did Obama Dodge a Bullet on Gun Control?
John McCain supported the Supreme Court decision, and Barack Obama … kind of supported it.
Posted 06/27/08 in Daily Intel : Early and Often
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JPMorgan's Up, GE's Down, and Google's Still Up in the Air
Plus law, real estate, and media news in our daily roundup.
Posted 04/17/08 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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Gucci Would Prefer a More Flattering Cut
FASHION • The Gucci family is up in arms over Ridley Scott’s biopic. They fear he’ll focus on the family scandals. You know, instead of making a movie about all the boring stuff. [British Vogue] • Helmut Lang is opening a pop-up shop in the meatpacking district. Just what we need, another fabulous place to spend our money while we are drunk. [Fashion Informer] • Kaiser Karl rocked the U.K. with a Chanel fashion show. [WWD]
Posted 12/07/07 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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Karl Rove to Finally Profit From Professional Secret-Keeping
MEDIA • Here come the NBC News pay cuts: Jeff Zucker plans to slash anywhere between $20 and $40 million, including an entire level of MSNBC management. And thanks to the writers' strike and fears of recession, future cuts may only get worse. [NYP] • Karl Rove may be offered $3 million for a memoir, in which we may find out how much he got in exchange for his soul. [NYP] • At least one person thinks the press did a heckuva job in reporting the lead-up to the Iraq war — former top White House communications adviser Dan Bartlett. [NYO]
Posted 12/06/07 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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For Viacom Freelancers, Neither Happiness Nor Health for Christmas
MEDIA • Viacom screws over its army of freelancers by rolling back benefit programs drastically. Merry Christmas! [MixedMedia/Portfolio] • The Washington Post is sending veteran reporter and inveterate partier Keith Richburg to town to take over the paper's New York bureau. He's well known for throwing parties with, get this, as many as 30 people! Will Manhattan will be able to handle it? [NYO] • No holiday party at Time Inc. or the New York Times. Suckas! [Radar]
Posted 12/05/07 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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Rupert Murdoch Wins the Party
MEDIA • News Corp. surpassed Time Warner to become the largest media company on the planet, and Murdoch held off a shareholder revolt in order to keep his family tyranny in place. [Hollywood Reporter, USAT] • ESPN poached marquee columnist Rick Reilly from Sports Illustrated after 22 years with the mag. Dan Patrick, who SI just poached from ESPN, will take Reilly's place at the back of the book. [NYT, Deadspin] • Stephen Colbert took his campaign to the Tim Russert show: "This is not a dream, you are not going to wake up from this. I am far realer than Sam Brownback." [NYT]
Posted 10/22/07 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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Jeffrey Goldberg Wants a Pony
MEDIA • Atlantic owner David Bradley sent ponies to Jeffrey Goldberg's kids to help lure him away from The New Yorker. Seriously. [WP] • Just before the Dow Jones deal went through, the Bancrofts voted to double this quarter's dividend for themselves [NYP] • Murdoch and Ailes's next move? All-out war? (Wait, they're not at war with everyone else already?) [Newsweek]
Posted 08/06/07 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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