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Super Cooper Not Totally Fearless (New York)
Is Anderson Cooper too brave? His boss, CNN president Jonathan Klein, thinks so. "My main concern at this point is no longer whether he can deliver journalistically," Klein said at a screening of Planet in Peril, an environmental documentary in which Cooper gamely camps out in Greenland's ice fields and Brazilian jungle for weeks at a time. "It's whether he can come back whole."

Negotiations Between Anderson News and Publishers/Distributors 'Intense' (MIN)
Charlie Anderson, CEO of Anderson News, and some of his team have been in New York City this past week for meetings taking place "regularly and intensely" with publishers and distributors to solve the crisis that erupted two weeks ago when distributors threatened to cut off shipments of magazines to Anderson News, the nation's largest magazine wholesaler and prime supplier to Wal-Mart.

Talk Is Cheap, but Celebrity Gossip Can Be Priceless (Independent)
Gossip Web sites and blogs have become must-have acquisitions for mainstream media companies. AOL is the proud owner of TMZ.com, which welcomes a healthy 1.6 million visitors every month and Yahoo! acquired celebrity news site OMG.com in June this year. Some Web commentators have accused CBS of jumping on the bandwagon in buying DotSpotter.com.

Getting It Wrong, Letting It Slide (Miami Herald)
Edward Wasserman: Why is it that the mightier the news organization, the likelier it will stand by ethical blunders that would shame a first-year reporter? Apparently, along with industrial mastery comes the right to deny, evade, whine, and nitpick instead of owning up to what you did wrong and making sure you don't do it again.

Video Chat Service Aims to Follow YouTube's Path (NYT)
A Web start-up wants to do for live video chats what YouTube did for video watching. The company, TokBox, allows people with Webcams and broadband Internet connections to conduct face-to-face chats inside a Web browser. Users can visit its site, www.tokbox.com, or add a TokBox module to their pages on social Web sites like MySpace.

What Will Marketwatch's Future Be Like Under Murdoch? (SF Chron)
MarketWatch doesn't get quite the attention that more high-profile parts of the Dow Jones deal are receiving. But the site, with 5.3 million monthly unique users who spend an average 22 minutes browsing its contents, is a powerful online brand that could soar to new heights when combined with News Corp.'s other assets.

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