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Across The Media Universe: Apple Is Made Of Teflon Edition

By Hillary Profita

January 19, 2007 / 1:40 PM EST / CBS News

(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

Teflon AppleWhile Apple continues its reign as technological media darling, BusinessWeek's Arik Hesseldahl wonders why no one is paying too much attention to the elephant in the room: "recent revelations about the company's backdating of options and Chief Executive Steve Jobs' involvement in the matter." Apple has said that no current managers have been implicated and that it is conducting its own investigation along with the federal one. By the time the iPhone arrived, "concerns over the long-term impact of the options mess had already begun to abate," writes Hesseldahl, who notes that huge profits at Apple probably have something to do with the press and public's relative disinterest.

Last Weekend In Review: Another day, another assessment of Scott Pelley's interview with President Bush. Today's comes from Al Neuharth in USA Today , and this time, it isn't critical. Well, at least not of "60 Minutes." While Pelley "threw hardballs about Iraq" and Bush, writes Neuharth, Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace "tossed mostly softballs at Vice President Dick Cheney," who appeared on the program the same day the Bush interview aired.

How Do You Like That Pulitzer, Now?: Howard Kurtz reminds readers this morning that way back when the New York Times broke the story on the NSA's warrantless eavesdropping program, Vice President Dick Cheney said it was "doubly disturbing" that the paper got a Pulitzer for the scoop. "Now, not so much," writes Kurtz, as the administration announced yesterday that there would be oversight of the program by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court. He also wonders "why they couldn't have done this a year ago."