Random Media Notes
A reader writes: In this week’s New Yorker there’s a strange Editor’s Note: “On the Contributors page fo the December 1st issue, the book ‘In Sickness and in Power’ attributed to the New Yorker writer David Owen, was in fact written by a different David Owen.” Unless I’m missing something, this means that either a guy faked his bio or the New Yorker wrote a bio for him and didn’t know who they were working with. Gawker investigates
Illinois Governor Blagojevich shook down the Chicago Tribune. The Tribune denies misbehavior.
Firing Judith Regan cost Newscorp $10.75 million dollars. Here and here.
NPR cuts jobs, cancels programs. They’re projecting a shortfall of $23 million. An angry mob should be able to get Judith Regan to cover at least half of that.

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