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Warren Buffett Buys 63 Newspapers From Media Company, Says It Can Keep the Florida Ones

By Rich Abdill Thu., May 17 2012 at 1:52 PM
Categories: Media
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A U.S. media company announced today that it would be selling 63 newspapers to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway holding company for $142 million, according to the Associated Press. Berkshire Hathaway will also be loaning the company, Media General, $400 million to pay off other debts.

Buffett's company will now own Virginia's Richmond Times-Dispatch and the Winston-Salem Journal in North Carolina, among others. But when it came to picking up newspapers in Florida, the billionaire said no thanks.
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Casey Anthony's Lawyer Writing Tell-All Book; You Can Pre-Order It

By Rich Abdill Wed., May 9 2012 at 7:50 AM
Categories: Media
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Note: We've since had the opportunity to chat with Baez about the book (and about this blog post).

Texas-based BenBella Books announced yesterday that Jose Baez, the South Florida attorney who successfully defended Casey Anthony on murder charges, will be releasing a book in July that "exposes shocking, never-before-revealed, exclusive information from the trial of the century."

Although the announcement clearly states that "this is NOT a 'Casey Anthony is innocent' book," it's definitely a "let's make some cash off of Casey Anthony" book, and you can toss your $26.95 into the hat on Amazon.com today. That's a full $8.80 more expensive than the book the prosecutor wrote about the ridiculous trial.
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Fox News Accuses "Mole" of Larceny; Fox News Steals Stuff All the Time

By Rich Abdill Thu., Apr. 26 2012 at 10:01 AM
Categories: Media
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Renegade Fox News employee Joe Muto got a lot of attention when he joined Gawker and started writing dispatches from the inside of the Murdoch empire. He got only one post in before he was found out and fired from Fox, with a follow-up letter from the legal folks being sent to Gawker threatening legal action over "information and videos that have been unlawfully obtained."

Gawker responded by publishing a picture of Bill O'Reilly with a topless woman.

Well, yesterday Muto got a visit from the cops, who served a search warrant accusing the "Fox Mole" of grand larceny, petit larceny, and computer tampering. Man, Rupert Murdoch sure doesn't like people rooting around in his business. Muto explains it best: "I should have done something more innocuous, like hacked a dead girl's phone and interfered with a police investigation."

He's right to point out the hypocrisy. But, transcontinental phone-hacking scandal aside, Fox News steals stuff every single day.
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Four Ways to Get Around the Sun-Sentinel Paywall

By Rich Abdill Wed., Apr. 11 2012 at 8:00 AM
Categories: Media
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Well, the Sun-Sentinel paywall went up on Monday, and it appears to be operating at full steam -- which means that once you read 15 artlcies, you're SOL until next month, trapped behind the paper's new Press+ "digital memberships" system. And, unlike the New York Times paywall, links from Facebook and Google count toward your total. You're really locked out.

Except that the paywall is more of a payspeedbump, and there are all kinds of ways around it. Not to say that sneaking around is the right thing to do -- plenty of newspaper paywalls have holes in them, with the logic being if people are given the opportunity to subsidize the news they're enjoying, they will even if they aren't forced to.
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Here Comes the Sun-Sentinel Paywall: Nonporous, 15 Free Articles a Month

By Rich Abdill Tue., Apr. 10 2012 at 11:35 AM
Categories: Media
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As promised, the Sun-Sentinel unveiled its new paywall ("digital memberships") system yesterday, and starting right now, if you don't pay up, you're limited to 15 articles per month.

One big question that's been answered is whether the paywall would be porous -- if links from social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter would count toward a reader's 15-article limit. The answer? Yes, they will.

A quick test of the paywall reveals that it will indeed stop you after 15 articles, even if you click on links from other sources.
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Sid Rosenberg Arrested on DUI Charges (UPDATED, again)

By Rich Abdill Fri., Apr. 6 2012 at 12:17 PM
Categories: Crime, Media
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Quite obviously via mugshots.com.
UPDATE, 4/10: The not-so-tame police report is up.

UPDATE, 4/6 12:15 p.m.: Hollywood Police Department has confirmed that Rosenberg was arrested Thursday on alcohol-related DUI charges, but that the police report would not be ready until next week. Broward Court Records now also indicate there are as-yet unfiled charges for DUI and driving with a suspended license against him.

Original post, 4/5 8:57 p.m.:
Sports radio personality Sid Rosenberg was arrested Thursday in Hollywood on charges of driving under the influence and driving with a suspended license, according to several websites that automatically collect police booking data.

While there are no charges listed in online Broward County Court records, florida.arrests.org has a listing for a "Sidney Rosenburg" with a birthdate that matches the one on file for "Sidney Rosenberg" -- spelled the same way the radio host's is -- in records of traffic tickets for improper use of the carpool lane, failure to wear a seat belt, and careless driving.
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What to Expect From the Sun-Sentinel Paywall

By Rich Abdill Fri., Apr. 6 2012 at 10:57 AM
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The Sun-Sentinel announced last week that its website would soon have a shiny new feature -- a paywall, erected around the main daily paper serving Broward County.

The paper will start "offering memberships" on Monday, though details have been in a letter to readers from Publisher Howard Greenberg that outlined what you weren't going to get anymore if you didn't pony up. It looks like pretty much all of it. There's no indication of how much it will cost or how the wall will work, but it's likely to be similar to the paywalls of its sister papers owned by the Tribune Co.
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Jonatha Carr's FAU Outburst Had Nothing to Do With Trayvon Martin Discussion; Sorry, Huffington Post

By Rich Abdill Wed., Mar. 28 2012 at 5:16 AM
Categories: Media
Trayvon Martin: Connected to this blog post by not being connected to several other blog posts.
​Update, 3/30: Carr's family has commented about her history of mental illness.

Dr. Boyce Watkins has been actively involved in racial commentary for a long time. He's been on CNN, he's written books, he runs a constantly updated website called Your Black World. That, combined with his status as a "scholar in residence" at Syracuse University, lends a lot of credibility to his column that the Huffington Post published Monday under the headline "Student Becomes Violent Over Trayvon Martin: Why This Is a Warning Sign to All of Us."

Unfortunately, the initial premise of the column is... wrong.
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Florida Papers Drop Controversial Doonesbury Abortion Comic Strips; Miami Herald Runs 'Em (UPDATED: Sun-Sentinel Too)

By Rich Abdill Tue., Mar. 13 2012 at 2:35 PM
Categories: Media
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Update, 10:20 a.m.: I messed up. The Sun-Sentinel does carry Doonesbury, but on the page opposite most of its other comics. They've got today's "slut" strip, and I've left a message for comment to see if the rest of them are running too.

Update 2, 2:30 p.m.: The Sun-Sentinel's Mary Helen Olejnik says the paper will be running all six strips.

Original post, 5:20 a.m.:
​This week, a series of six Doonesbury comic strips mocks a Texas law requiring women to have an invasive ultrasound before receiving an abortion. But when it comes to printing the strips, papers across the country -- papers that know what Doonesbury is about, papers that pay for Garry Trudeau's brand of satire -- are chickening out.

The Sun Sentinel doesn't run the strip to begin with, but the Miami Herald does -- and they aren't budging... too much.
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Circumcision and AIDS: Harvard Doctors Respond to Criticism

By Deirdra Funcheon Mon., Feb. 20 2012 at 6:41 AM
Categories: Fear-Mongering, For the Kids, Health, Journalismo, Media, Science
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​Could a whole coalition of highly accomplished, super educated doctors and researchers -- the ones who work at and advise the Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Harvard School of Public Health -- all be wrong?

Or are their critics hindering them from saving lives?

As described in our recent feature story about circumcision, three studies conducted in
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