July 6, 2009 7:17 AM
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This story was written by Rafat Ali.
This week’s Reliable Sources on CNN was a particularly spirited one, as it continues to discuss more and more issues with connection to online/digital media. This one touches on three topics: whether media is over-covering MJ story (surprisingly all three guests, including our increasingly ubiquitous friend Sharon Waxman, disagree with Howie on this one); on TMZ’s continued rise and the respect, or lack of it, that it gets; and of course WaPo’s paid dinner debacle (a story which won’t die at least for another week, with a rather weak non-apology from the publisher Katharine Weymouth not helping the case).
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By Rafat Ali
This week’s Reliable Sources on CNN was a particularly spirited one, as it continues to discuss more and more issues with connection to online/digital media. This one touches on three topics: whether media is over-covering MJ story (surprisingly all three guests, including our increasingly ubiquitous friend Sharon Waxman, disagree with Howie on this one); on TMZ’s continued rise and the respect, or lack of it, that it gets; and of course WaPo’s paid dinner debacle (a story which won’t die at least for another week, with a rather weak non-apology from the publisher Katharine Weymouth not helping the case).
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By Rafat Ali
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