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7 Spoilers For Sunday's Oscar Telecast (Deadline Hollywood Daily)
Nikki Finke: Few things in Hollywood are more fun than revealing the surprises which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences have planned for the 79th Oscar telecast. Especially because AMPAS is such a bunch of tight-asses. So here come the secrets. But, remember, don't read further if you want to stay unspoiled until Sunday night.

XM & Sirius: What A Merger Won't Fix (BusinessWeek)
Sure, XM and Sirius would wring out plenty of cost savings as one company. But the two have yet to earn a penny of profit. Their combined losses for 2006 are expected to hit $1.7 billion. And new competition is everywhere. Car salesmen are pushing new iPod jacks. More than 57 million Americans now listen to some form of Web radio each week. Meanwhile, 240 million folks listen to regular radio.

Some Creative Efforts to Take Back Foreign News (CJR Daily)
Paul McLeary: It's nearly five and a half years since the 9/11 attacks, which was supposed to be the day America woke up to world news. Surveying international coverage, however, it doesn't look like much has changed. And with more American newspapers and broadcast news outlets shuttering their foreign bureaus, it stands to reason that what little we're getting is bound to shrink even further.

Mom of Jailed Journalist Ponders Term 'Free Press' (Inland Valley Daily Bulletin)
Liz Wolf-Spada always believed in America's constitution and the free press. Then her son, Josh Wolf, was jailed more than six months ago for refusing to hand over video footage of protests of an anti-G8 summit that he shot in San Francisco in July 2005. Now, the idealistic schoolteacher at Phelan Elementary School says she doesn't know what to tell her third-grade students. "I always believed we had a free press, and Josh did too," she said. "While we weren't looking, the Superior Court started taking away our civil liberties."

Radar Parties In L.A. (WWD)
"We actually have more readers in L.A. than New York," said Radar editor Maer Roshan, "so the idea was to show L.A. who we are." The eclectic turnout of socialites, entertainment players and media folk — including Fabiola Beracasa and Tinsley Mortimer, Andrew Saffir, Daniel Benedict, ICM chief Jeff Berg, ABC Entertainment executive Andrea Wong, actress Laura Harring and television journalist Susan Campos — was a microcosm of the magazine. "They're our people, the people who are building the culture."

Bloggers on the Campaign Trail (The Nation)
Ari Melber: Republicans cannot stop the donations or pressure the media into ignoring liberal bloggers. Instead, the GOP has tried to drive a wedge between Democratic leaders and the netroots by attacking bloggers — and their readers — as an extreme vitriolic embarrassment.

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