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The Breakfast Meeting: Competing on Disney's Turf, and to Catch a Straying EyeBy NOAM COHEN There has been a recent spate of provocative magazine covers, Christine Haughney writes: a mother breast-feeding her 3-year-old son at Time; Newsweek crowning Barack Obama with a rainbow halo and the title “The First Gay President”; and, ... |
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The Breakfast Meeting: Facebook's Billions, and Political Blowback for a ...By NOAM COHEN Facebook raised $16 billion on Thursday in its initial public offering, with 421 million shares going for $38. That price values the company at $104 billion, Evelyn M. Rusli and Peter Eavis write, giving it a higher market value than ... |
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The Breakfast Meeting: Charges in Phone Hacking, and When Reporters Wrote SmutBy NOAM COHEN Rebekah Brooks, the former key aide to Rupert Murdoch and close friend with Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain, was officially charged with perverting the course of justice in connection to the investigation of the phone-hacking ... |
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The Breakfast Meeting: Chinese Interest in Movie Theaters, and the Beatles on TVBy NOAM COHEN In an example of China's growing attention on the global film industry, the Wanda Group, one of that country's largest theater owners, is said to be in talks to buy a significant stake — or acquire outright — AMC Entertainment, ... |
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The Breakfast Meeting: Obama Stops 'Evolving' on Same-Sex MarriageBy NOAM COHEN President Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage on Wednesday in a hastily scheduled interview with Robin Roberts of ABC News. The timing was driven by Vice President Joseph L. Biden Jr.'s comments that aired on Sunday on “Meet ... |
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Wikipedia Kills Page Linking Obama Slogan to Socialist MovementBy NOAM COHEN WikipediaA front page of Vorwärts (Forward), the newspaper of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, which was cited by Wikipedia editors who have tried to publish articles tying the Obama-Biden campaign slogan, “Forward,” to socialism. |
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The Breakfast Meeting: 'Avengers' Ascendant, and Rupert's Twitter TearBy NOAM COHEN “Marvel's The Avengers” took in about $200.3 million at North American theaters over the weekend, according to Walt Disney Studios, which released the film, a total that eclipsed even the weekend total last year for the final installment ... |
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The Breakfast Meeting: Hollywood Comes Out for Obama, and a Prime Minister's TextsBy NOAM COHEN Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper subsidiary, is testifying before an inquiry on British press ethics on Friday, which is now focusing on the relationship between newspapers and politicians, ... |
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The Breakfast Meeting: Touch-Ups at Teen Magazines, and Goldman's Friendly FaceBy NOAM COHEN Julia Bluhm, a 14-year-old from Maine, disturbed by the photographs of “perfect” girls in magazines, started an online petition asking Seventeen magazine to “commit to printing one unaltered — real — photo spread per month. |
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The Breakfast Meeting: Microsoft Buys Into the Nook, and Radio's Shrinking ...By NOAM COHEN The e-book wars added a new alliance, the Microsoft-Barnes & Noble joint venture, DealBook reported on Monday. Microsoft has invested $300 million for a 17.6 percent stake in a new Barnes & Noble's subsidiary composed of its Nook ... |
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