interesting things
Christine Quinn has won the backing of Hollywood’s heavy hitters in her quest to be mayor of New York. We can reveal that “Tower…
via NY Post: Page Six http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/wood_for_chris_cri6QVPBhagvmj1M2mD75J?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=%20%20%20%20%20%20Page%20Six
A Swingers’ sex party in the penthouse of the Mondrian SoHo came to a premature end on Saturday night, following a clash between hotel security…
via NY Post: Page Six http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/swing_interrupted_iuwnjFUFMKU3DCuuiJjaxM?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=%20%20%20%20%20%20Page%20Six
Online articles often change after publication, except there is no history tab and sometimes those revisions are controversial, for example this Politico story on General Stanley McChrystal. Enter NewsDiff: Tracking Online News Articles Over Time. It allows you to compare evolving versions of online news articles after they are published, starting with The New York Times and CNN. Here are some example diffs – see anything controversial? Last year, Times executive editor Jill Abramson called the idea “unrealistic” in response to an OpEd calling for diffs. (via)
via MetaFilter http://www.metafilter.com/117080/Diffs-of-CNN-and-NYT-articles
The report on past job performance has morphed into a driver of future job performance.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/24/magazine/are-the-jobs-number-killing-jobs.html
Japanese police arrested the president of asset manager AIJ Investment Advisors and three others for allegedly selling funds with the knowledge that performance figures had been fabricated.
via WSJ.com: What's News US http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303836404577475740520186900.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us
Steven ThrasherMunro interrupting President Obama in the Rose GardenAfter reading Megan Carpentier’s Raw Story article about our experience in the White House Rose Garden standing next to Daily Caller
via Runnin' Scared http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/06/neil_munro_heckling_audio.php
The monopoly mindset:Â
The business model that the owners of the metro dailies gravitated toward in the decades after World War II was this: 1) establish monopoly, 2) milk that monopoly. The monopoly was on the delivery of printed advertising messages into homes in a given city or (better) metropolitan area: department store ads, supermarket ads, car dealer ads, and, most of all, classifieds. Notice that I didn’t mention news. That’s because, once a monopoly was established, the editorial content of a newspaper had no detectable impact on its financial success.
via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/06/why-newspapers-were-always-doomed.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+andrewsullivan%2FrApM+%28The+Daily+Dish%29
Republican sources confirmed to ABC’s Jonathan Karl that Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., often mentioned as a top contender for the second spot on the GOP presidential ticket, is so far not being vetted by Mitt Romney’s vice presidential search team. Â
It has been almost two months since Romney picked long-time aide Beth Myers to head his veep search. The fact that Rubio has not been asked to turn over any official documents to the campaign by now suggests that the senator is not on Romney’s short list.
via Homepage http://www.nationaljournal.com/2012-presidential-campaign/report-rubio-not-being-vetted-for-veep-slot-20120619
FRANKENMUTH, Mich. – When Mitt Romney travels to Wisconsin, people tell him to choose the Badger State’s Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate. In Ohio, they urge him to pick their senator, Rob Portman.
“I get a very biased audience depending on the state I’m in,†the presumptive Republican presidential nominee told reporters on a flight from Iowa to Michigan on the eve of the last day of his six-state “Every Town Counts†bus tour through key battleground states.Â
Romney has campaigned with all four officials in the past, but not since the vice presidential vetting process has begun. On this tour, the scrutiny was intense and Romney’s bus companions played it safe. There was no going off script and no attempt to divert the spotlight from the man who may one day be their running mate.
Staffers at the Los Angeles Times all got a missive today from Tribune’s TV boss talking up the new late-night talk show coming next year from Arsenio Hall. The rationale for bringing Hall back off the television bench is because the people who watched his show from 1989-94 are now…older.
From: Tribune Communications
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 2:12 PM
Subject: Message from Sean Compton/The Arsenio Hall ShowTribune and CBS Television Distribution are announcing today the return of The Arsenio Hall Show, set to premiere in Fall 2013. The nightly show will be taped each day in Los Angeles. The content of his new show will be an updated version of his successful 90’s late night show, targeting much of the same audience; Arsenio was the youngest skewing successful talk show in late night history. While the baby boomers were watching Johnny, their kids were watching Arsenio. Those boomer kids are now 35-49 years old, a perfect fit for our Mon-Fri late night time period, which has 3 times more 35-54 viewers than 18-34.
In addition to The Bill Cunningham Show that launched this past fall, the return of Arsenio’s show is another step into the original programming business for Tribune Broadcasting. The Arsenio Hall Show will be seen on Tribune stations, no cable or video on demand, and as an investor we will benefit from the show in addition to the success it delivers to our local stations.
You’ll find more details in the attached press release, which was issued just a few moments ago.
Sean Compton
President/Programming
Tribune Broadcasting
Meanwhile, Sam Rubin — a Tribune employee at the “KTLA Morning Show” — chatted up Hall in Rubin’s “Hollywood Uncensored” hat. That show airs on Reelz later this week.
via LA Observed http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/06/new_arsenio_hall_show.php
