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Do you remember the days when TV Land actually showed decent TV shows? Well, I do. And when I say good, I mean shows that stem from generations far before my own and yet are still relevant and entertaining. They are classics.

If there’s any phrase I’ve heard too often, it’s this one. There’s no such thing as bad press.

MTV's Total Request Live is now only live twice a week and is taped for the other three days. With a huge drop in viewers from its peak until now--757,000 viewers per day to 351,000--TRL decided to broadcast live shows only twice a week in order to cut costs.

The Syracuse Post-Standard’s Jeff Kramer is sick of threats that the era of the newsboy is over. He double-dog dared the media – “One day without newspapers."

Just one hour before presidential candidate John Edwards held a press conference regarding his wife's health and the future of his campaign, Politico's Ben Smith posted news of Edward's campaign suspension, after a tip from "Edwards' friend."

The crew over at Highsnobiety, “one of the most read urban fashion and sneaker websites on the internet,” branded their own kind of on-site reporting this season at the Magic trade show in Las Vegas.

Teen Vogue, is estimating a 16 percent growth in newsstand sales for its February and March issues over the same issues last year.

Superproducer Brian Grazer was recently tapped as the first "guest editor" of the L.A. Times Current opinion section, only to be dethroned days later in a scandal fit for the movies.

“It’s a weird, weird job,” said Brian Montopoli, editor of the CBS News blog Public Eye, where he works to bring transparency to the audience of the leading broadcast network's news operation.

Dear Mr. Berkowitz,

While the comments you’ve made against the blogsphere may have been valid some four years ago, at this point in time they are simply insipid and uniformed.

Well, it's really easy to tell since Gawker has finally added bylines--and an Ombudsman.

Hillary as a Big Brother-type? The creator of the Orwellian YouTube video comes forward. Also worthy of note: He resigned from his company, which has ties to Obama.

Blogs are a moneymaking business, and one of the ways to make money is ads. Just ask Henry Copeland. He is one of the bigwigs over at Blogads, a company dedicated to blog advertising.

Peter Mucha of The Philadelphia Inquirer provides readers with live, first-hand accounts of events on his blog “Live From …” on Philly.com.

More channels does not translate to more channels being watched, according to a new survey conducted by Neilson Media Research.

The world would be a better place if Dennis Miller would avoid joining the ranks of talk radio. Please, I beg you Dennis: Do not go on the air and claim to be a talk radio host.

So justice does exist in the White House! At least when it comes to seating arrangements in the WH briefing room.

Print and broadcast are dicey businesses these days. Just take it from a Wall Street financial adviser who cautioned clients to “steer clear” from putting stock in Gannett.

Being Midwestern and an adult doesn't necessarily conjure up a savvy blogger image. Luckily, Detroit Free Press "life" blogger Susan Ager proves the blogosphere stereotypes of carelessness wrong.

Local news is bad. OK, I shouldn’t make such a grand generalization. Local news is generally bad.