More Posting Later Today

In the meantime, here are a few things to check:

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AND WHAT DID THE COUNTY SUPS MANAGE TO ACCOMPLISH AT TUESDAY’S MEETING TO HELP SORT OUT THE ONGOING PROBATION NIGHTMARE?

I’ll give you a hint: it rhymes with hero. (But not in a cheery way.)

A lot more on this in a while.

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DOES THE PROPOSED COMCAST/NBC-UNIVERSAL MERGER MATTER TO THE REST OF US?

Nikki Finke asked Andrew Jay Schwartzman of the Media Access Project to write about what the CC/NBCU merger could really mean to us average folks. Check it out.

In short, Shwartzman says the deal would harm diversity and free expression and is bad for America. (Other than that, I’m sure it’s fine.)

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A MCCHRYSTAL-RELATED RANDOM QUESTION,

With all the yammering this past year on the part of the news media about pay walls and sanctity of content, why exactly was it okay for Time Magazine and Politico to both put up the entire Rolling Stone McCrystal article—before RS had posted it online themselves?

I’m just curious.

(Rolling Stone has it up now.)

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HIP-HOP HIGH SCHOOL CLOSES

In case you missed it, in Sunday’s LA Times, Howard Blume had a story well worth reading on a charter high school that allowed under achieving kids access to music recording equipment, that now is being shut down.

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