Media Miscellany: 04.19.2005

More on print’s long, slow, shuddering last breath:
AP to begin charging for online content; newspapers spin “readership” numbers to advertisers over “circulation” numbers; newspapers blaming Craigslist for declining ad revenue have a missed connection with a clue.

Matt and Judy have nowhere to go but the top:
Now that the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to reconsider February’s ruling requiring the NYT’s Judith Miller and Time’s Matthew Cooper to testify about their sources, their only option is to take their appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court – if the high court will hear it (not necessarily a given). According to the NYT they could “face jail as soon as a week from now.” Yikes.

Christopher Hitchens is too clever by half:
Hitch flirts with consideration in our “Ledes, Questionable” category but outsmarts us as per usual in Slate:

The annual U.S.-Islamic World Forum, sponsored by the Saban Center of the Brookings Institution and the Foreign Ministry of Qatar, is no way to begin a sentence, let alone an article.

Touch&#233, Hitch. How meta.

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