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Anniston Star cuts staff
By 10%.
(BizJournals.com)

Covering WH turkey event
How Rosalyn Carter saved the day.
(Commercial-News)

Buffalo sportswriter Borrelli dies
From injuries suffered in fall.
(Buffalo News)

NYT science reporter Chang
Speaks at Yale.
(New Haven Ind.)

New contract for Fox News' Ailes
Five more years.
(NYTimes.com)

RIP Dick Dougherty
Ex-columnist, editor was 88.
(Rochester D&C)

POSTED WEDNESDAY
Suggestions for Time's POY
If it isn't Obama.
(Granta.com)

Reflective vests required
For reporters working near highways.
(Virginian-Pilot)

Esquire's greatest stories
Seven of them.
(Esquire)

RIP Clive Barnes
Critic was 81.
(New York Times)

Rather's lawsuit pooh-poohed
By Dealey.
(US News)

Hillary story twist and turns
NBC's Mitchell started it all.
(NY Observer)

POSTED TUESDAY
Sicha on Gawker boss Denton
"Made too much work for himself."
(LATimes.com)

HuffPost to fund investigative journalism
No details yet.
(Reuters)

Boston Globe, GateHouse battle
Dan Kennedy's take.
(Media Nation)

"On the Media"
Latest audio and transcripts.
("OTM")

D Mag layoffs, pay cuts
Staff trimmed by 19%.
(D Magazine)

Forbes layoffs
Forty-three since Friday.
(WWD)

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More power to critics who watch TV with passion, not disdain

New York Sun
David Blum says one of the lasting legacies of "The Sopranos" may be that television criticism belongs not to the old critical warhorses like the New York Times and the New Yorker, but to the bloggers and mid-level critics who watch TV with passion, not disdain. "Their reviews and essays embrace the narrative power of television by chronicling it week after bloody week," he writes. "As HBO defines the future of the medium by mounting serial dramas and comedies ...it will be the bloggers and insta-critics following closely behind that make it exciting, interpreting and Monday-morning-quarterbacking in ways that have changed the face of criticism."

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