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Media: By now the decline of the newspaper industry has become, well, yesterday's news. Small wonder the industry's own trade publication would eventually close its own doors. But there's a little more to the story. Last week Editor & Publisher magazine, aged 125, finally ended its run as newspaperdom's principal trade pub when owner Neilsen Business Media announced it no longer fit in with the company's reformulated plans. Journalists who had long since ceased reading the print edition offered nostalgic tributes — online. That their posts appeared on the Internet itself tells much of the story. In recent years both...

A conservative newspaper in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has dropped Ann Coulter's column becoming the first paper to take that action since controversy began swirling around the author of the runaway best seller "Godless, the Church of Liberalism." Neither recent, now-disproved charges of plagiarism nor her controversial book played any part in the paper's decision, the paper's editorial page editor told NewsMax.com. .... According to the July 12 edition of Editor & Publisher (E&P), The Gazette in Cedar Rapids, where her column has appeared for about 14 months, has replaced Coulter with NewsMax.com columnist David Limbaugh, a close friend of Coulter's.

Since the posting of The New York Times lengthy article on Judith Miller's involvement in the Plame scandal Saturday, much of the Web has been abuzz with the revelation that she had some sort of special classified status while embedded with troops in Iraq at one point. The issue came to the fore after Miller, in recounting her grand jury testimony, wrote about how her former classified status figured in her discussions with I. Lewis Libby. She was even pressed by the prosecutor on this matter. E&P columnist William E. Jackson Jr., had first raised this issue last year. On...

Lawmakers: Writer May Have CIA Leak Info Thursday, February 24, 2005 WASHINGTON — Two lawmakers have sent a letter to the U.S. attorney saying a White House reporter who recently resigned following questions about his identity and background may have information vital to the investigation into who leaked a CIA operative's name to the press. Reps. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., and John Conyers, D-Mich., the ranking Democrats on the House Rules Committee and House Judiciary Committee, respectively, wrote a letter to Patrick Fitzgerald (search), the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, saying the Chicago attorney's office may need to...

WAS SUPER-PUNDIT Ann Coulter targeted by a journalistic hoax? On September 1, editor Bob Unger published an open letter telling Miss Coulter she was "fired" – that is, that he was dropping her syndicated column from his paper, the Centre Daily Times (CDT) of State College, Pennsylvania. Two days later, Unger told Editor & Publisher (E&P) that he was swamped with supportive e-mails. E&P reported Unger’s claim, apparently without checking its accuracy. Bill O’Reilly of Fox News likewise made no attempt to question or challenge anything Unger said in a September 18 interview. Despite the puppy-dog trust some interviewers have...

REMEMBER that regional newspaper editor who made a big show of "firing" super-pundit Ann Coulter last month? Well, the guy is now out of a job. The moral of the story: Don’t mess with Ann. Actually, Bob Unger did not fire Miss Coulter, because she never worked for him. He simply stopped running her nationally syndicated column. However, he did so in such an abusive and public manner, that people were forced to take notice. Unger announced his move with an open letter accusing Miss Coulter of "hate." "[W]e don’t welcome haters, Ann, and that’s what you are…," wrote Unger....

MARCH 25, 2002 Liberals Get Labeled More OftenNPR Disputes Conservatives' Argument By Greg Mitchell NEW YORK -- In his current best seller, Bias, Bernard Goldberg is the latest critic to charge that the media repeatedly identifies politicians and writers as "conservative" while failing to properly label their liberal counterparts. Such critics usually make the charge without backing it up with hard facts. Geoffrey Nunberg, a commentator on the popular National Public Radio show, "Fresh Air," actually took the trouble to find out if it was really true. Using a major online database he searched for articles about 10 well-known...