Media Minutiae: Green Beer Edition

  • Google gets off: A suit accusing Google of wrongful conduct, including copyright infringement and defamation, was dismissed by a U.S. judge, the WSJ reports.
  • Dethroned: CNN on the defensive about rumors that Larry King is being pushed out of the Live chair.
  • Fine on the $4.5B Knight Ridder deal: “Pruitt is 48 and looks younger, which makes him a teenager compared with typical newspaper bosses. He has the hair, looks, and unruffled demeanor of a class president, but his references to the Rolling Stones and Elvis Costello reveal a desire to score points with the cool kids.”
  • NYT reporters and editors on blogs: “Nobody would ever call them ncritical guzzlers of blog bilge,” says Slate‘s Jack Schafer.
  • JT 2.0?: Just what we need, another memoirist controversy.
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