What a coincidence!

Two different emails from two completely different people telling us about exactly the same thing on exactly the same blog! And it just happens to be about how that liberal bastion, The New York Times, didn't hoof it to a news conference about how Rupert's realm was launching its new TV network. And they both put the entire post -- typos and all -- in their emails. Gosh.

And one is from a "huge fan," too!

-----Original Message-----
From: David Selnick
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 9:43 AM
Subject: new york times
Dear FishbowlNY,
Did you see that this other blog ripped the shit out of the New York Times? I laughed so hard when I read it. I immediately thought it was something you'd want to see.
David

New York Times drops ball on My Network TV announcement

FTVLive first brought you the news yesterday that My Network TV was being announced by Fox at a Big Apple press conference.

Sources tell FTVLive that news conference was was packed. The announcement got a lot of media coverage Today in the papers and trades.

The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Washington Post all checked in on it. But where the hell was the New York Times?
The Times resorted to a brief that they ripped off the wires.

Times editors had to be red-faced this morning when they opened up the Wall Street Journal . . . at the very least, this should have been a wake up call to them about how out of touch Times TV editor Steve Reddicliffe is.

When contacted about it by FTVLive, one Fox executive was laughing at the esteemed paper of record saying they were asleep at the switch yet again . . . "To get beat as badly as they did on this story, I'd just hope for their sake that they were all on vacation with their kids this week because there would be no other excuse for getting crushed like they did. "

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-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Marshall
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 4:09 PM
Subject: NY Times
Did you see this about the New York Times from the FTVlive blog?
Yikes!!!

New York Times drops ball on My Network TV announcement

FTVLive first brought you the news yesterday that My Network TV was being announced by Fox at a Big Apple press conference.

Sources tell FTVLive that news conference was was packed. The announcement got a lot of media coverage Today in the papers and trades.

The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Washington Post all checked in on it. But where the hell was the New York Times?
The Times resorted to a brief that they ripped off the wires.

Times editors had to be red-faced this morning when they opened up the Wall Street Journal . . . at the very least, this should have been a wake up call to them about how out of touch Times TV editor Steve Reddicliffe is.

When contacted about it by FTVLive, one Fox executive was laughing at the esteemed paper of record saying they were asleep at the switch yet again . . . "To get beat as badly as they did on this story, I'd just hope for their sake that they were all on vacation with their kids this week because there would be no other excuse for getting crushed like they did. "