Fish Food

Delectable morsels from around the web:

– Sarah Baxter, the Washington bureau chief of The Sunday Times of London, who is an old hand at Royal coverage, doesn’t believe Matt Drudge’s posting of the Prince Harry-in-Afghanistan story is a big deal. From CNN’s Reliable Sources: ”Howard Kurtz: So you’re not angry at Matt Drudge for breaking this story, and you don’t feel like this was some terribly irresponsible thing for him as a blogger to have done?

”Sarah Baxter: Well, Harry got away with 10 weeks. That’s not bad going. And so secretly we’re kind of grateful to Drudge.”

– Portfolio’s Jeff Bercovici delves deeper into the recent newsroom cuts at The New York Times and their aftermath: ”According to a number of current and former New York Times employees, that decision marked the culmination of a period of heightened hostility between the paper’s business side, which felt that it had made more than its share of sacrifices in previous round of cost-cutting, and the editorial leadership, which favored doing everything possible to protect the paper’s competitiveness.

”’It’s been an ongoing tension for awhile,’ says one source close to the business management. ‘The business side believes they’ve taken the majority of the hits so far while the newsroom has stayed untouched.”’

The Globe and Mail reports that media mogul Lord Conrad Black of Crossharbor has said in email exchanges with the paper that he is ready for jail. Further: ”As he prepared to go to jail today, Conrad Black has been making peace with some former foes.

”In an e-mail last week, Lord Black mentioned that conservative columnist William F. Buckley, who died last week, met him several times recently to patch up their differences. Last fall, Mr. Buckley suggested in a column that Lord Black was probably guilty of his crimes.

”’He was a great man and a dear friend,’ Lord Black wrote. ‘He was in Fort Lauderdale in Jan. and Feb., and we had dinner three times and lunch once. He was an inspiration, right to the end.”

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