CBSNews.com’s PublicEye blog goes dormant

We reported a few weeks ago that PublicEye blogger Matthew Felling was let go by CBSNews.com, and now there’s news the blog is going away. “We weren’t able to find a sustainable business model for Public Eye,” a CBS spokesperson told TVNewser. The blog began in 2005 with the mission of bringing “transparency to the editorial operations of CBS News.” Apparently, there isn’t a business model for a blog about transparency.

9 comments January 3rd, 2008

Washington Post reporter debates RIAA on radio

Remember that WaPost story I posted a few days ago that said the RIAA was now pursuing a legal strategy that concluded that copying legal CDs to your own computer is illegal? Well, the reporter who did the story, Marc Fisher, ended up on NPR radio with the president of the RIAA, and as Fark would say, hilarity ensued. The RIAA denied it and accused Fisher of sloppy reporting. The RIAA said that Fisher only quoted part of the legal documents, leaving out the line about copying files to a “shared folder” — a folder that would share the music with other users. “The way I saw it, Fisher was ill advised to debate,” writes Greg Sandoval on News.com. “What was exposed was a reporter who doesn’t want to admit to making a mistake and has dug his heels in.”

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Only 6,300 viewers watching Fox Business

That’s the Nielsen estimate for the number of viewers watching the new Fox Business Network every weekday.

Ahem. More people read blogs like Lost Remote than watch Fox Business? I wish the ad revenue reflected that…

8 comments January 3rd, 2008

Leno delivers monologue without writers

Amazing, Leno can write his own jokes! And the WGA is trying to stop him. I don’t know about you, but this strike is just getting plain silly.

4 comments January 3rd, 2008