Sarah Palin Lashes Out at 'Very Scary' Media Coverage
Sarah Palin, still smarting over coverage of her vice presidential run, calls the media's reporting on her family "very scary" and says there may be "a class issue" that explains the more sympathetic treatment of Caroline Kennedy.

Palin lashes out at the media
Sarah Palin, still smarting over coverage of her vice presidential run, calls the media's reporting on her family "very scary".

News Media
The American print and TV media have never been very good. These days they are horrible.

GlobalPost: A startup treads where big media retreat
Journalists can't resist "man-bites-dog" stories. Here's an example of one they'll find irresistible: Even as media companies shed revenue and staff in ever-growing numbers, a new company will spring to life Jan. 12 that will employ about 80 journalists with the un-modest aim of covering the world.

Player that reaches into a hard drive and pulls out media
Seagate's FreeAgent Theater HD media player taps into a portable hard drive to put video, photos and music on a television set.

Company Profile for AXAR media
AXAR Media is a division of ProVision Communications, a wireless and HD video company.

Palin has had enough, blasts media for reporting 'non-issues'
On Thursday afternoon, Palin's office issued a news release, accusing the news media of pursuing erroneous and often outrageous leads on a variety of non-issues.

China Consumer Confidence At Six-year Low - State Media
BEIJING (AFP)--China's consumer confidence is at its lowest in six years, with people tightening their belts due to the global crisis, state media said Friday.

Rights Group Urges World Bank, Donors To Prod Vietnam On Media
HANOI (AFP)--U.S.-based group Human Rights Watch called Friday on the World Bank and donor nations to Vietnam to press the communist government to stop criminalizing journalists and allow a free media.

Sports media: Is NFL overtime rule fair?
Jim Nantz says no; Phil Simms cites Ravens, says yes W riting another week's sports media notes because management said I would be fired if I interviewed for a job as an American Idol judge:

Regent Media Assumes Majority Interest in PlanetOut
Publisher of The Advocate and Out magazines and owner of here! TV buys controlling interest in PlanetOut Inc., including Gay.com, to form Here Media Inc.

Rwanda: Police Praise Media's Role in Security
Kigali ? The Acting Commissioner General of Police, Mary Gahonzire, has praised the media over the role they played in alerting the population on matters concerning security during 2008.

Sun-Times Media To Close 12 Weeklies
Sun-Times Media Group Inc. plans to close 12 weekly newspapers in suburban Chicago and has asked its union employees to take a cut in compensation as part of cost-cutting measures brought on by declining advertising revenue.

Media groups want Nebraska cemetery records released
OMAHA, Neb. ? Several media organizations on Thursday joined a Nebraska historical society's fight to obtain the names of 957 people buried in unmarked graves at a former psychiatric hospital cemetery.

Media groups want Neb. cemetery records released
Several media organizations on Thursday joined a Nebraska historical society's fight to obtain the names of 957 people buried in unmarked graves at a former psychiatric hospital cemetery. The organizations filed a "friend of the court" brief supporting a...

Chip maker aims to connect home media
Silicon Image Inc, the chip maker that helped create a widely adopted digital data transmission standard, on Thursday announced a new technology that will let users play and control their digital media on any screen in the house.

PlanetOut, Here Networks and Regent Entertainment Media Announce Merger to Create Here Media Inc.
SAN FRANCISCO , Jan. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PlanetOut Inc. (Nasdaq: LGBT) announced today that it has signed a definitive merger agreement to combine with Here Networks LLC and Regent Entertainment Media Inc. PlanetOut serves the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, or LGBT, community through its websites, Gay.com and PlanetOut.com.

Sierra Nevada Sports Media Poll - Northern Region Top Ten
Sierra Nevada Sports Media Poll - Northern Region Top Ten (First place votes are in parentheses)

New social media platform for hotels launched
Lodging Interactive has rolled out its travel 2.0 marketing services for hotels. The HuBBub social media platform is a turn-key marketing service which leverages travel 2.0 technologies to extend a hotel's online branding, marketing and communication strategies.

Consumers Union Acquires Gawker Media?s Consumerist.com
Consumers Union (CU), an independent publisher of Consumer Reports magazine and ConsumerReports.org, has purchased Consumerist.com from Gawker Media.