Quoted: I'm not going to go so far as to say that there is a sinister plot brewing at Time magazine. But the above illustrates just how powerful even the most subtle tweaks on how information is presented can affect not only how we digest information but how we perceive it and digest it.

Quoted: The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed CBS News executives and people close to Katie Couric, said Wednesday she could leave her job as anchor of the CBS Evening News well before her contract expires in 2011.
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The Wall Street Journal suggested Couric's next job might be to succeed veteran TV interviewer Larry King at CNN, who is 74 and whose contract with his network expires next year.

Quoted: Figures released by the Newspaper Association of America show that the decline of newspapers is more rapid than previously thought, with total print advertising revenue in 2007 plunging 9.4% to $42 billion compared to 2006, the biggest drop in revenue since 1950, the year they started tracking annual revenue.

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Quoted: The Federal Emergency Management Agency's No. 2 official apologized Friday for leading a staged news conference Tuesday in which FEMA employees posed as reporters while real reporters listened on a telephone conference line and were barred from asking questions.

Quoted: Dow Jones & Company tentatively agreed to be acquired by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation on Monday.

If you're ever on Jeopardy...

Quoted: Though the story may be apocryphal, Adams is supposed to have been the first President to give an interview to a woman. Adams had repeatedly refused requests for an interview with Anne Royall, the first female professional journalist in the U.S., so she took a different approach to accomplish her goal. She learned that Adams liked to skinny-dip in the Potomac River almost every morning around 5 a.m., so she went to the river, gathered his clothes, and sat on them until he answered all of her questions.

Was curious about traffic to The New York Times website.

Quoted: "The New York Times site (which has some articles behind the TimesSelect pay wall) attracted a unique audience of 12,960,000 users in February, who combined for 455,527,000 page views."

In comparison (from http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/is_digg_really_more_popular_than_facebook.php ), Digg has 1/2 the page views but 2x the number of visitors.

had to redot this. some of the headlines regarding a-rod and his strip club visit...

Quoted: “Stray-Rod”
“A-Rod hits ‘home run’ with mystery blond?”
“Alex Rodriguez Shares His Yankee Doodle With Blond”
“Cynthia Rodriguez a Free Agent? A-Rod ‘Cheating’ Caught by New York Post”
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Journalist friends...you might find this interesting.

Quoted: Embarrassing gaps continue to beset The Times’s online ethics questionnaire, introduced last April to ascertain whether freelancers meet the paper’s fundamental ethical standards.

redotted from: techcrunch