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Shes says people are "tired of screens" and want more face-to-face interaction.

via POLITICO – TOP Stories http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/tina-brown-daily-beast-96761.html

With his op-ed in The New York Times Thursday morning, Russian President Vladimir Putin has done what no American can–unite Congress. Granted, it’s united by an intense, "vomit"-inducing revolution at the spectacle of being lectured to by a hostile strongman in the nation’s paper of record, but at least Putin can claim an unlikely bedfellow in President George W. Bush.

Ketchum, the PR firm Putin used to place his op-ed in The Times, was the same company that the Bush administration used to produce what the Government Accountability Office later called illegal "covert propaganda."

Under contract from the Department of Education, Ketchum paid conservative pundit Armstrong Williams $241,000 in taxpayer money to tout No Child Left Behind in appearances on CNN and CNBC, and to interview Education Secretary Rod Paige for TV and radio ads.

via Homepage http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/putin-and-bush-s-favorite-pr-firm-20130913

Even Brooklyn-bred authors such as Jonathan Lethem admit they struggle to capture the essence of the rapidly changing borough.

via WSJ.com: Arts & Entertainment http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324549004579069411717740496.html?mod=rss_Arts_and_Entertainment

Another version of this bar chart of cable prices.

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Richard Johnson’s nearly quarter-century reign as "Page Six" editor ended in late 2010, when he moved to Los Angeles to head up a gossip section called "Flash" for News Corp’s tablet newspaper The Daily. When The Daily folded, Johnson stayed on in L.A. for The Post, but now that he’s returning to New York, things will be a bit different: Johnson won’t be editing Page Six, according to a Post memo shared with Daily Intelligencer. Rather, he’ll be writing a new column this fall that "will be a mix of gossip from both coasts, society news, business and politics in the legendary style of Neal Travis." Emily Smith will stay on as Page Six editor, along with deputies Ian Mohr, Stephanie Smith and Mara Siegler. Cindy Adams will keep her column as well. The full memo from acting Post editor Jesse Angelo follows.

It’s my pleasure to announce that Richard Johnson will be coming back from his beat in LA to the great city of New York to author a new column starting later this fall that will give people yet another reason to love the New York Post and nypost.com.

The column will be a mix of gossip from both coasts, society news, business and politics in the legendary style of Neal Travis.  It will be a great complement to our already excellent Post coverage in those areas.

Emily Smith will continue her outstanding leadership of our flagship Page Six brand, together with her deputy Ian Mohr, Stephanie Smith and Mara Siegler.  Cindy Adams will continue to offer up her unique mix of dish, scoop and sauce.  And they will all be involved as we grow and expand our fantastic new pagesix.com.  We have always had the premier names in this space, and broken the biggest stories, but no we will set the bar even higher for those who aspire to compete with us.

As I’ve said before, the New York Post is one of the best brands in the business and there’s a lot more cool stuff in the works. Stay tuned.

Jesse

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via Daily Intelligencer http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/09/posts-richard-johnson-returning-to-new-york.html

Disney has announced plans to rerelease The Little Mermaid to theaters on September 20. However, the rereleased film has been synced with an iPad app that gives users the ability to play games, sing-a-long to the movie and interact with the characters. While in the movie theatre.

via MetaFilter http://www.metafilter.com/131859/And-this-is-why-we-torrent

WASHINGTON (AP) — Some of President Barack Obama’s top allies say the president misread a few crucial political forces when he asked Congress to support his bid to strike Syria.

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UPDATE: Ex-LA TSA worker charged, tied to anti-US website…

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Mind-altering screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich) has adapted a cool-sounding young adult trilogy called Chaos Walking. And now Robert Zemeckis, having come back to real live filmmaking with 2012’s Flight, twelve years after Castaway, is thinking of directing this endeavor. The first book in author Patrick Ness’s series, called The Knife of Never Letting Go, details “an infection that renders all thought audible in a dystopian future where humans have colonized an alien planet.”

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Filed Under: movies
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,robert zemeckis
,chaos walking
,directors directing

via Vulture http://www.vulture.com/2013/09/robert-zemeckis-charlie-kaufman.html

WASHINGTON (AP) — The surveillance machine grew too big for anyone to understand.

via Yahoo! News – Latest News & Headlines http://news.yahoo.com/nsa-machine-too-big-anyone-understand-071323221–politics.html