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Media Monitor: PiPress owners to withhold financials, City Pages owner withholds self-criticism

By Paul Schmelzer | 04.14.08 | 10:45 am

File under: No news is good news: MediaNews, the Denver-based chain that owns the Pioneer Press, has devised a way to deal with tanking financial figures: stop publicly reporting them. The privately held…

Media Monitor: The Expletives Edition

By Paul Schmelzer | 04.11.08 | 6:07 pm

Rhodes hits, ahem, the road: Randy Rhodes is no longer with Air America Radio, but there are conflicting stories about why. On an AAR-funded trip to San Francisco a few weeks back, Rhodes

Media Monitor: The n-word and a punk’d Pulitzer shot?

By Paul Schmelzer | 04.10.08 | 9:36 am

Words that begin with F and N: Michael Lacey, co-owner of Village Voice Media (City Pages’ parent company), apologized this week for using the “n-word” in his acceptance speech at an awards banquet on Friday, stating that it…