Journalist bailout program A gimmick? (PBS MediaShift)
Anniston Star cuts staff By 10%. (BizJournals.com)
Covering WH turkey eventHow Rosalyn Carter saved the day. (Commercial-News)
Buffalo sportswriter Borrelli diesFrom 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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Chicago: The things I like most about you are your disdain of the genocidal tyrant Rupert Murdoch, your approving quotations of Alexander Cockburn and defense of cannabinoids. Why don't you have Howard Kurtz's job? Maybe MSNBC needs a media critic. Keep up the good work. Jack Shafer: I couldn't possible do Kurtz's job unless I had a staff of 20 working for me. The guy is a machine and has been running on all 12 cylinders on the press beat for almost 20 years. As for cannabinoids, don't mistake my criticism of drug reporting for a pot habit. I happen to have never smoked or eaten the stuff. Honest!
