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Thanks, snugs.

Now here 's this sunday's Media Nuggets

###### Coulter Power! - Shreveport Tmes editor was angry at Ann Coulter's strong criticism of John Murtha & wanted to drop her weekly column in his paper, but can't. Reason? - more than 60% of it's readers wrote "if you drop her, I'll drop you".

###### Dream on! - ABC's political director Mark Halperin who predicted 2004 Kerry victory & wrote that infamous memo [leaked during Florida debate], comes up with his new book - "The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008" co-authored by Wash.Post journo - John F. Harris.

###### Veteran NBC network correspondent blows the whistle & says "it pains me to see what passes for accurate coverage" about their War Reporting. But then, we knew it already.

###### Rupert Murdoch is teaming with Conservative Media giant Phil Anschutz to jointly produce Family Films. [Anschutz is the publisher of free Examiner newspapers in Baltimore, Washington and San Francisco & co-produced "The Chronicles of Narnia".]

###### Al Sharpton says - "Juan Williams is the black Ann Coulter with pants". He even attacks the right-wing politics for Fox News. [Will O'Reilly stop calling him "stand-up guy?"]

###### U2 Rock star Bono is teaming up with Steve Forbes and his family and buy 40% stake of Forbes. Bono now believes Forbes' theory of "The way you solve poverty is giving people the tools to overcome it."

###### Haniity & Colmes worried about ratings drop and bringing back Dennis Miller. [Where is Zell Miller?]

###### FNC's Jane Skinner's husband is Roger Goodell, the next NFL commissioner.

###### News Corp. profit rises 19 percent, boosted by advertising sales at the Fox News Channel.

###### 'Dallas Morning News' to Slash 85 Newsroom Jobs.

###### 'Mainstream Media Meltdown' . - magazine newsstand sales are at an all-time low and newspaper circulation is "declining faster than ever".

###### 14 cities NIX Dixie Chicks' tour show. The band suffered a backlash among many conservative fans after lead singer Natalie Maines slandered President Bush.

###### NBC is cutting 125 million from its budget by the end of the year which will affect it's news division.

###### McKinsey Study Predicts Continuing Decline in TV Selling Power, 50% Drop in Viewers & TV advertising will be one-third as effective as it was in 1990.

###### Bill Cosby complains that WashPost abusing its power.

Excellent Nuggets again, as usual, anita.

my comment on this one

###### 14 cities NIX Dixie Chicks' tour show. The band suffered a backlash among many conservative fans after lead singer Natalie Maines slandered President Bush.

I don't really think the backlash had much steam until a few conservative fans criticzed her comments about Bush (particularly critical of her saying what she said in a foreign country) and she turned around and said something to the affect "country fans are stupid."

At that point the Chicks were toast.

Coulter Power! - Shreveport Tmes editor was angry at Ann Coulter's strong criticism of John Murtha & wanted to drop her weekly column in his paper, but can't. Reason? - more than 60% of it's readers wrote "if you drop her, I'll drop you".

Alright!!!!

Brilliant stuff again anita. I loved the one about how the rat media wanted to cancel coulter but was afraid since it was 60/40 to keep her and then the wash post up to their old tricks again slanting the news by hook or crook, great stuff.