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November 16, 2007 4:44 PM

Another One Bites The Dust

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Long long ago, on a college campus far, far away this writer did a grad school thesis looking at economic models of online newspapers, and whether newspapers could charge for visits to their website.

It was a hundred pages, give or take, but I’ll boil it down for you:

Nothing works, except The Wall Street Journal.

And now, that might be changing.

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July 31, 2007 2:09 PM

Across The Media Universe: Hair, Drugs and Rupe Edition

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Beat The Press: According to The Politico’s Ben Smith, John Edwards is the “first major Democratic candidate for president” to take a page from the Republican playbook and make attacking the press corps a part of his campaign strategy. He’s aggressively responded to stories about his expensive haircuts, for example, releasing a video flashing images of misery in Iraq and New Orleans while the theme song of the musical "Hair" plays. And at the end, this question: "What really matters?" (He has also used the issue in fundraising emails.) Perhaps if Internet video and the “Tank Girl” soundtrack had been around in 1988, Michael Dukakis could have put together a nifty response of his own.

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Maia Szalavitz
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