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Alphabet Soup: CBS buys CNET

By Michael Becker | Published: May 15, 2008
The Financial Times (and every other major Web-news out­let) reported today that CBS has bought CNET for $1.8 bil­lion. The move by CBS is one in a string of older media com­pa­nies, which are slowly los­ing cus­tomers, buy­ing Web por­tals, which are gain­ing cus­tomers. CNET, whose fam­ily of sites includes News.com, claims a monthly audi­ence [...]
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Wikileaks.org ordered offline

By Michael Becker | Published: February 19, 2008
A California court recently ordered that the whistle­blower site Wikileaks.org be removed from the Internet after a Swiss bank said the site had posted infor­ma­tion about its off­shore activities. Wikileaks allows its users to anony­mously post gov­ern­ment and cor­po­rate doc­u­ments to the pubic. The Swiss bank­ing group Julius Baer said sev­eral hun­dred of its doc­u­ments were [...]
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Free Press

By Michael Becker | Published: September 19, 2007
In the wake of the New York Times drop­ping its paid Times Select ser­vice, there is news today that the Wall Street Journal’s Web site may drop its pay wall as well. Again, the role of lib­er­a­tor is being played by adver­tis­ing rev­enue. The WSJ, pur­chased recently by Rupert Murdoch, a closely mon­i­tored devel­op­ment that had many [...]
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Mr. New York Times, Tear Down that (Pay) Wall!

By Michael Becker | Published: September 17, 2007
The New York Times plans to dis­man­tle its Times Select paid ser­vice in an effort to drive more read­ers deeper into their Web site and increase ad rev­enue, Reuters reports. The ser­vice will shut down on Wednesday after two years of ser­vice. Times Select had about 227,000 paid sub­scribers, who will receive pro-rated refunds when [...]
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CNN Links to The Onion

By Michael Becker | Published: August 2, 2007
I didn’t think this was real until I went to CNN’s home­page and saw it for myself. Why the hell is ven­er­a­ble, world­wide news agency CNN link­ing to a satir­i­cal news­pa­per pub­lished at the University of Wisconsin in Madison? Was this an auto-generated link that caught the search-bot’s eye because it listed Facebook news? I really [...]
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