Government Gone Wild (Big Time): A small city's council in Arkansas votes to ban citizens from meeting together in private homes or forming organizations unless they get City Council approval. The mayor is vowing to fight the council over the most ridiculous ordinance I have ever seen.

Roxanna Green, mother of the 9-year-old child who was shot and killed by a gunman in Arizona who was targeting Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, said on MSNBC that she wanted the memory of her daughter Christina to live on.

"I just want her memory to live on, she's a face of hope, a/…

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In another sign that the two organizations are ready to merger, Ray Chelstowski, a former publisher of Rolling Stone and Entertainment Weekly, has been named publisher of Newsweek and The Daily Beast, reports Jeremy W. Peters of The New York Times.

Chelstowski is the  former publisher of Rolling…

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 Washington Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli announced today that Vernon Loeb, Philadelphia Inquier's deputy managing editor/news, is returning to the Post as local editor.

Loeb's resume is a document of back-and-forth adventures betwen the two papers. Previously, he was a repor…

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Gannett Co. told non-union workers of its U.S. Community Publishing Unit today that they will have to take a week off without pay in the first quarter of this year to avoid more layoffs as revenue continues to fall.

The furloughs will affect workers at the 81 community newspapers. They will not…

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Here's more evidence that once you are elected to Congress and you find yourself inside the Beltway that your brain just shuts off and you just don't get it.

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One of my all-time favorite sports broadcasters is in a heap of trouble for his insensitive off-the-air remarks toward a female sideline reporter.

Ron Franklin was pulled from the air before Saturday's Fiesta Bowl after he called ESPN sideline reporter Jeannine Edwards "sweetcakes" during an off-air s…

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CNN's John Roberts will join Fox News as senior national correspondent based in Atlanta and will be reporting on major domestic and international stories for the network, reports Colby Hall of Mediaite.

Some industry insiders are sure to see this as somewhat of a coup for Fox News, as Roberts will… Read full post »

Newsweek owner Sidney Harman told New York Post's Keith J. Kelly that the long-awaited merger of the struggling news magazine and the Daily Beast will finally happen in mid-January.

Kelly writes this morning:

There was no word from Barry Diller, chairman of the InterActiveCorp/IAC side of the new joint… Read full post »

I'm confused by Washington Post's Ezra Klein's contention that the Constitution, "written over 100 years ago," is confusing and hard to understand.

For starters, I thought it was written long before the Civil War. But even more perplexing is the notion that it is confusing. I'll give you the meaning/…

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Howard Kurtz at The Daily Beast has the inside details of the battle between Keith Olbermann and his superiors at MSNBC over his recent suspension for making unapproved political campaign contributions. Those contributions, sources tell Kurtz, are upsetting other NBC top journalists who are worried t…

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Mike Allen of POLITICO reports today that MSNBC sources said that Keith Olbermann was suspended because he refused to deliver an on-camera mea culpa, which would have allowed him to continue anchoring “Countdown.â€

Olbermann told his bosses he didn't know he was barred from making campaign contrib… Read full post »

U.S. News & World Report will cease printing its monthly print magazine in 2011, according to an internal memo from editor Brian Kelly posted on Romanesko.

It's a magazine that has been struggling for years. The once weekly had morphed into a monthly over the course of two years. Its circulation…

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UPDATE, Nov. 5 at 4:49 p.m. Eastern:  Brian Stelter of The New York Times just tweeted "MSNBC now says Chris Hayes will *not* be the sub tonight. No word yet on who will be."

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Keith Olbermann has been suspended without pay from MSNBC because of his contributions to three political… Read full post »

A reader of Jim Hopkins' Gannett Blog sent him an email yesterday that Cincinnati Enquirer Publisher Margaret Buchanan appeared in the newsroom about 5 p.m. Wednesday and announced there had been seven people laid off, two of those in the Local Information Center. She blamed a drop-off in retail adve…

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The Clarion Ledger in Jackson, Miss., laid off 15 people yesterday.

WLBT reports that the 15 people include managers, photographers and a sports reporter. The Gannett newspaper laid off 20 people in July.

Fifty-six people will lose their jobs as the Ledger-Enquirer newspaper in Columbus, Ga., cuts its production department.

The paper said today that 56 will be laid off within three months, which is the equivalent of one-third of its workforce.

President and publisher Valerie Canepa was quoted in an arti…

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Fox had its biggest midterm election night ever, reports Brian Stelter of The New York Times, by clubbing its competitors by about 300 percent.

Fox pulled in 6.96 million viewers in prime time, while CNN averaged 2.42 million viewers, and MSNBC averaged 1.94 million viewers. That's 287 percent mo… Read full post »

A.H. Belo Corp. today reported net income of $4.6 million, or $0.20 per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2010 compared to a net loss of $5.8 million, or $0.28 per diluted share, in the third quarter of 2009, a company release said.

Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization…

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The Federal Reserve sailed into uncharted waters today by committing to buy $600 billion more in government bonds (at a rate of $75 billion per month) by the middle of next year to give the U.S. economy a jump start.

This is the full text of the statement from the Federal Reserve's…

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The final USA Today/Gallup measure of Americans' voting intentions for Congress shows Republicans continuing to hold a substantial lead over Democrats among likely voters, a lead large enough to suggest that regardless of turnout, the Republicans will win more than the 40 seats needed to give them th…

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Here's Real Clear Politics' take on the Pennsylvania Senate race between Republican Pat Toomey and Democrat Joe Sestak.

When Arlen Specter was born in 1930, Pennsylvania had 36 Congressional districts. All of them save for one – the 12th – elected Republicans. When Specter first entered public lif… Read full post »

The Associated Press reports that Jon Stewart's Sanity Rally drew easily tens of thousands of people, and at least at the start was focused on poking fun at just about everything. (Click here for images.)

In the shadow of the Capitol and close to the election, comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert… Read full post »

Ironic, isn't it?

Sun-Times Media spokesperson Tammy Chase's job was to put the best light on Sun-Times Media's layoffs, big and small. This week, she got her own notice that the company could no longer afford her services.

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In the past two weeks, Republican Christine O’Donnell has narrowed Democrat Chris Coons’ lead in Delaware’s U.S. Senate race from 19 points to 10 points. The latest Monmouth University Poll finds Coons has the support of 51% of likely voters to 41% for O’Donnell. Two weeks ago, this race stoo…

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