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Ed wonders??¦
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Will baby Spears be born with a mullet or without? And will his bassinet be shaped like a doublewide?

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News
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1. New York Post
Brewster Bid Fails
By Keith J. Kelly
5/26/05
http://www.nypost.com/business/24345.htm

Dan Brewster, the one-time CEO of Gruner + Jahr USA, is entitled to zero severance, according to an arbitrator's ruling handed down yesterday.

Brewster was bounced in January 2004 after serving about three-and-a-half years on a five-year contract.

His ouster came only two months after the company suffered a public-relations black eye by battling former talk show host Rosie O'Donnell to a draw in a bitter breach of contract lawsuit over the scuttling of Rosie magazine..

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2. Wired News
Salon??™s Balancing Act
By Adam L. Penenberg
5/19/05
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67642,00.html

Since the dawn of the dot-com, news publishers have split into two camps. One group followed the lead of The Wall Street Journal and charged for news, while the other aped broadcast TV by selling ads and giving content away free -- sometimes requiring reader registration, sometimes not..

Although I tune out most online advertisement, and, like 98 percent of the web population, refuse to shell out for content, I realize somebody has to pay my salary -- and those of reporters, editors, sales staff, webmasters, etc. That's why I'm intrigued by the success of Salon's Site Pass. Even someone as jaded as I am might be willing to take out a minute of my day to watch an ad if it means I can read stories I can't find anywhere else. (Especially when I can turn the sound off.) .

Not that it's new, mind you. Salon has been offering it in various forms for three years. What's special is that Salon is, for the first time, inching toward profitability because of it. From the beginning, Salon treated business plans like seasonal plantings. When it launched in November 1996, it offered free content paid for by advertising. Then, it introduced a $30-a-year subscription model for premium material (sans ads) while the rest of the site came at no charge. That was followed by a choice between paying for content with ads or paying more for the content without them, which led to the present subscription/Site Pass combo platter.

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3. Gawker
Radar Stalkier
By Jess Coen
5/26/05
http://www.gawker.com/news/media/radar/index.php#radar-stalker-hide-thy-eyes-from-the-apocalypse-105048

It??™s official: We may be batshit insane, but Radar was not a figment of our imagination..

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Reader reports ??” flooding in by the threes and fours! ??” suggest that the magazine is slowly cream pieing its way across America, disappointing dozens of eager readers.

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