CBS News & Yahoo! Announce 60 Minutes 'Packaging' Partnership [TVNewser]
This is a strange deal: CBS and Yahoo! are partnering to create a 60 Minutes "microsite" on Yahoo.com, the two companies announced today. But how will correspondents and producers feel about these remixed packages? And do "new and younger viewers" really want to watch 60 Minutes content on Yahoo!? Just asking.

Is Bertelsmann on Shaky Ground? [GalleyCat]
Even though the giant media conglomerate that owns Random House announced a 13% increase in profits in the 2005 fiscal year, the news wasn't enough to decrease speculation about whether the company will find itself up to public scrutiny.

WB Censors Its Pilot, Serves It Uncut on the Web [FishbowlLA]
After the FCC edict last week to let stand the largest-ever fine against broadcast TV stations, the soon-to-be subsumed WB TV network has censored Tom Fontana's new pilot, The Bedford Diaries.

Red-Faced About Red America? [FishbowlDC]
The good folks at washingtonpost.com are once again coming under scrutiny. This time, it's over their decision to hire Ben Domenech to write the new conservative blog Red America. There are 1012 comments on the Post's "Red America" announcement as of this writing.

This Weekend UnBeige Gets Radical [Unbeige]
Starting today UnBeige will be blog-casting live from the Art Center Radical Craft conference, the only conference you might pay the money to go to, if it wasn't so damn expensive. Thursday night we've got the New Yorker's Adam Gopnik (word craft) opening the event, with magic from Ricky Jay (witchcraft).

How to Pitch: Wired [MBToolBox]
"Wired is a guide to the cultural, technological and scientific future, and a snapshot of the constantly undulating landscape we pass on our way there," writes Melissa Walker.

Boring But Necessary [MBToolBox]
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