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BREAKING AGAIN: CBS Radio Fires Imus

Danger–other shoe falling! Some thoughts: * So he doesn’t get to finish the telethon? Will someone be reimbursed? * Which satellite-radio exec won the speed-dialing contest to Imus’ agent? * My Time story, of course, went to press before the announcement. I’ll see about having the magazine mail pens to the print subscribers, so they [...]

Another Eakins: Going, Going, Gone

Portrait of Professor Benjamin H. Rand/Thomas Eakins — Photo: Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia has sold another Eakins. This time it’s the 1874 Portrait of Professor Benjamin H. Rand, which went for a reported $20 million or so to Alice Walton’s still-under-construction Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Ark. [...]

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Imus: The TV-Decency Angle

…because you knew there had to be a TV-decency angle, right? In the midst of closing my epic about Imusgate yesterday, I received an email press release from our friends at the Parents Television Council: The Parents Television Council renewed its call for the cable industry to provide true cable choice to consumers so that [...]

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Lostwatch: Baby Love

SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t watched last night’s Lost yet, drink this glass of orange juice… ABC/ MARIO PEREZ Oh, Juliet! You naughty girl! I had been worried that last night’s Lost was going to try to win us over to Juliet’s side, making her a sympathetic new member of the gang immediately. Fortunately, the [...]

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Dead Tree Alert: Who Can Say What?

Posted on time.com this morning, my big fat story on the I-man’s I-plosion and its I-mplications, which will be the cover of the next print TIME magazine. I try to spin the story forward, as we say in the biz, by looking at the big picture of public and pop-culture discourse today. (“Discourse”! Yes, I [...]