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    The Cycle

    Times’ Carr takes on Fox News PR

    Posted July 7, 2008

    Fox News’ PR operation took a beating in today’s New York Times by David Carr, who alleges that media relations at the network is “a kind of rolling opposition research operation intended to keep reporters in line by feeding and sometimes maiming them.”

    Carr reports that the strategy is born from CEO Roger Ailes’ days as a political adviser for presidents Nixon, Reagan, and George HW Bush. Says Carr: “Once the [PR] apparatus at Fox News is engaged, there will be the calls to my editors, keening (and sometimes threatening) e-mail messages, and my requests for interviews will quickly turn into depositions about my intent or who else I am talking to.” Read more »

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    Tags:Brian Lewis, Broadcasting & Cable, Choire Sicha, CNN, David Carr, FishbowlNY, Fox and Friends, Fox News, George HW Bush, Huffington Post, Jacques Steinberg, Mike Malone, New York Times, News Corp, Noah Davis, Rachel Sklar, Radar, Richard Nixon, Roger Ailes, Ronald Reagan

    Report: Post executive editor search down to Brauchli, Bennett

    Posted June 25, 2008

    Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth has narrowed the field of prospective executive editors down to two candidates: former Wall Street Journal managing editor Marcus Brauchli and Post managing editor Phil Bennett, according to Radar’s Charles Kaiser.

    Newsweek editor Jon Meacham took himself out of consideration weeks ago, according to Kaiser, who adds that Post employees say New York Times managing editor Jonathan Landman is no longer being considered for the job.

    Post executive editor Len Downie, in a long suspected move, told his staff this week that he plans to step down in September.

    A Landman hire could have been a boon for upward-looking Web editors everywhere, according to MarketWatch media columnist Jon Friedman. Hiring Landman could put an editor with an intricate understanding of the Web into one of the top positions in journalism, while also striking a blow at the rival Times, Friedman says.

    Meanwhile, The New York Observer’s Felix Gillette reports that network sources have told him that NBC News SVP Mark Whitaker is the leading contender to replace Tim Russert as Washington bureau chief. Whitaker joined NBC News last May after spending most of his career at Newsweek.

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    Tags:Charles Kaiser, Felix Gillette, Jon Friedman, Jon Meacham, Jonathan Landman, Katharine Weymouth, Len Downie, Marcus Brauchli, Mark Whitaker, MarketWatch, NBC News, New York Observer, New York Times, Newsweek, Phil Bennett, Radar, Tim Russert, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post

    Media junkies, rejoice

    Posted February 21, 2008

    There will be ink…

    Numerous outlets, per Radar Online, are claiming to have forced the New York Times‘ hand in publishing about John McCain and his brushes with lobbyists (unsurprisingly, the story hit a double-double - tops on NYT’s most e-mailed and blogged list). McCain’s people blame The New Republic, which it claims is writing an expose on NYT infighting. TNR says, well, “We’re working on something, all right.”

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