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 1. I Don’t Know A Thing About It 

 2. Ghislaine Get Me Off The Hook

 3. Jeffrey Who?

 4. Hey MAGA, Go Annoy Barack Instead

 5. I Want The Two Jimmys Cancelled 

 6. That Colbert KissCam Skit Wasn’t Funny 

 7. Don’t Take Alina Away

 8. My Way (Unauthorized Trio Version w/Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley)

 BONUS TRACK: J.D. Talk To Rupert

Comedian/actor Steve Coogan takes on former NEWS OF THE WORLD deputy features editor.

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2011/07/coogans_bitchsl.php

From April: Hugh Grant talks to phone-hacking UK journalist.

http://www.newstatesman.com/newspapers/2011/04/phone-yeah-cameron-murdoch

Question Time - Hugh Grant - NoW Closure 'Cynical Manoeuvre' [07.07.2011]

Here's the Piers Morgan Americans don't experience on CNN.

The quote below is from former UK newspaperperson Piers Morgan's Twitter feed--expressing Morgan's feelings about Hugh Grant (who was a victim of the celebrity phone hacking scandal in the UK--along with actress Sienna Miller) and Grant's appearance on the BBC show QUESTION TIME (presumably discussing how the phone hacking of celebrities, 7/7/05 terror victims and those concerned in the case of a murdered young woman brought an abrupt end to Rupert Murdoch's tabloid NEWS OF THE WORLD):
"You don't have to have any sympathy for the News of the World to think Hugh Grant's being a screechy, sanctimonious little prick."

When corporations run network news, corporations exempt themselves (and each other) from news coverage.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-maher/new-rule-not-everything-i_b_244050.html
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/08/01/ge/index.html
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/08/04/olbermann/index.html

Something interesting I read in the last link above. Glenn Greenwald links to David Sirota's article re the "Keith Olbermann told to stop criticizing Bill O'Reilly so Fox News can quit reporting on General Electric" mess. In the comments section of Sirota's piece, one gets the idea that some people are okay with Olbermann standing down in this matter as long as he has an opportunity to be a "progressive" voice on a cable news channel.

Question is: How progressive can you be if you work for a news organization that has no firewall between its operations and edicts from the corporation that owns it?

Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck and his six-foot wall.

http://gawker.com/5187225/paranoid-faux-populist-glenn-beck-walls-himself-off-from-humanity?skyline=true&s=x

Next, Bill O'Reilly--feeling hurt since Glenn Beck is apparently the new favorite blowhard of Roger Ailes--will likely build an eight-foot wall, plus add a few guards toting machine guns to keep nonfans and angry far-leftists away......

LA OBSERVED on changes in THE LOS ANGELES TIMES.

Starting next week, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES will be altered in response to less advertising revenue and pressure to keep cutting costs.

For more complete information, including the paper's spin on the forthcoming changes:
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/02/how_the_californialess_la.php

A column T.J. Sullivan wrote for LA OBSERVED about the importance of print newspapers:
http://www.laobserved.com/intell/2009/02/are_newspaper_journalists_to_b.php
[UPDATE 2/26/09: The Denver, Colorado ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS will cease publication as of tomorrow: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/26/rocky-mountain-news-closes-friday-final-edition/]

Allegedly, Rupert Murdoch is showing some interest in buying THE LOS ANGELES TIMES.

At this point, you, the reader, can insert a punchline about tabloid journalism, the potential for uncritical reviews of Fox Network programming and/or 20th Century Fox movies, or the possibility of Los Angeles mainstream journalism standards being lowered to those of THE NEW YORK POST (remembering the racist editorial cartoon implying a connection between President Obama and a murdered chimpanzee).