Huffington Post legacy hire Matthew Palevsky defended uniformly innocuous Timesman Sewell Chan's Twitter honor.

Nation correspondent Ari Melber captured the sad sadness of a sad politican's sad press conference.

Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl felt the consequences of auctioning herself off to the highest bidder.

Chicago Tribune leisureblogger Bill Daley became the guy who complains about the copier.

Fox DC anchor Brian Bolter felt a false sense of relief.

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CNET video correspondent Natali Del Conte kicked back.

New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter was an eyewitness to injustice.

Mancunian editrix Louise Bolotin sang her heart out.

VentureBeat editor Eric Eldon found a benefit to his Facebook obsession.

Fox Chicago anchordame Nancy Loo suffered for her art.

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SF Appeal editrix Eve Batey triumphed over musical shame.

Fox Chicago anchor Nancy Loo conducted consumer food-safety research.

Vain, pompous, self-aggrandizing Technology Review editor Jason Pontin couldn't choose just one adjective.

New Yorker writer Susan Orlean had an insight about the likes of Pontin.

By mid-afternoon, Air America radio hostess Ana Marie Cox had once again turned her thoughts to booze.

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Friedman is set to meet tomorrow with Fox News chief Roger Ailes and John Moody, the news network's executive vice president for editorial, the source said. Friedman will have a chance to plead his case, but the meeting could well end with the columnist losing his job.

Friedman is in hot water for posting to FoxNews.com Thursday a review of the forthcoming movie Wolverine. The freelance columnist based his comments on an unfinished version of the movie that leaked onto the internet last week. "It's so much easier than going out in the rain!" he wrote. "I was completely riveted to my desk chair in front of my computer."

You can imagine how this went over at Wolverine producer 20th Century Fox, which last week called in the FBI to find out who leaked the film. The studio complained corporate sibling Fox News, according to Nikki Finke, and parent company News Corp. publicly condemned the review and requested its removal. Fox News promptly deleted the piece.

Finke wrote that Ailes then fired Friedman, a development seemingly confirmed by a statement News Corp. supplied to the New York Times, reading, "Fox News… terminated Mr. Friedman."

But Fox News' only statement on the affair (also given to the Times) is that "This is an internal matter that we aren't prepared to discuss at this time."

And in fact Friedman has not been fired, according to the Fox News source, although he could well be terminated during tomorrow's meeting. The delay in firing Friedman (despite News Corp.'s announcement) could be read as a play by Ailes to assert the news division's independence from film studio 20th within the News Corp. empire.

The meeting also gives Fox News time to reconcile its own definition of journalistic ethics with 20th Century Fox's. The film studio says Friedman shouldn't have broken the law in the service of a story. But Fox News seems more comfortable with such mischief. Network anchor Shep Smith wasn't fired after he was arrested for running over a competing reporter with his car so he could snag parking space, even though the incident resulted in felony battery charges (later apparently dropped without explanation).

When Bill O'Reilly's former producer accused the Fox News host of sexual harassment, producing lengthy conversation transcripts O'Reilly never denied, sibling publication the New York Post slammed her in a story headlined "'Lunatic' O'Reilly Gal Went Nuts in Bar." O'Reilly settled the suit and, of course, retains his job.

And Fox is unrepentant about stalking a liberal blogger, sending a camera crew to tail her from her apartment across state lines to Virginia.

I am very proud of this project as it was a challenging one. I had to "dress up" (in addition to furniture, art accessories, a new lighting plan and flooring as well as stage it) almost 4,000 sqf in one month in order to fulfill my client's as well as Fox's network criteria as the penthouse used to film part of the Secret Millionaire show airing in fall. Fox was thrilled with the way it turned out(as they described it- it looked like a "movie set")

As Defamer points out:

Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes cited a 60%-70% profit margin during a VOD trial for Warner Bros. films on cable — more than twice the return on Time Warner DVD rentals.

Unlikely. Fox is also partnering with Apple to feature Idol downloads on iTunes. The two companies, which also collaborate on movie downloads, could well have bartered promotions. An unfair advantage over the likes of HP and Dell? Of course. Steve Jobs's Hollywood ties are paying off on the bottom line.

Adding insult to injury, the TV ads did an excellent job of driving traffic online — the usual reason why one buys Web ads. MySpace's Super Bowl ads page has received 14.5 million views as of this afternoon, and GoDaddy.com received 1.5 million views during the game by viewers looking for the ad that didn't make it past Fox's censors.

As for my Patriots? There's always next year — and pitchers and catchers report February 14.

Roger Ailes, chairman of Fox Business, said he would not settle for "anything short of a revolution," given the vast resources and advertising Fox is able to deploy. At this rate, Fox Business Network shouldn't be aiming at CNBC; the network, with its bubbly and attractive correspondents, is competing with personal blogs with virtually no expenses. Maybe what Fox Business needs is more cleavage. Move the ticker to the top of the screen, Roger. (Photo from TVHeads.com)

Let's spell those out: Sony hates Apple for turning the iPod into the Walkman of the 21st century. Universal is owned by NBC, which has had a big spat with Apple over TV shows. As for Warner Bros. — which is no longer affiliated with Warner Music, the record label which signed a music-download deal with Apple rival Amazon.com recently — it's not clear what the competitive issue might be. But Warner did recently hire Thomas Gewecke, formerly an executive at the Sony BMG music group, to run digital distribution. He may not have fond memories of negotiating with Steve Jobs.

The copy protection on DVDs was cracked long ago, but it's still not easy for the average consumer to copy a disc and transfer it to iTunes. Having one-click DVD copying, like iTunes has done for CDs for years, could well be the killer app for Apple's video products, including the Apple TV. (Update: According to Gizmodo, the files won't be ripped from the DVD; instead, Fox will include iTunes-formatted versions of the movie on the disc.)

Up until now, the only way to legally get a movie on your Apple TV was to buy it from the iTunes store. If this trial is successful, we could see other movie studios sign on quickly. Odds are good that Disney, the media company in which Apple CEO Steve Jobs is the largest individual shareholder, will get the same deal when the movie-rental store launches in January.

News Corp. has always been less vocal than NBC in supporting the technically inferior Hulu. No wonder it's playing the field. Silicon Alley Insider claims that Fox is in talks to bring its movie collection to iTunes next year, perhaps in time for a Macworld announcement in January.

NBC, too, is hedging its bet on Hulu. Some NBC shows will also be available on Netflix for purchase the day after shows air on TV.

The odd thing about both of these deals is that Hulu, which was supposed to function as a licensing agent as well as a video website, doesn't seem to be involved. With both of Hulu's ostensible backers looking elsewhere for online-video distribution, the question isn't whether iTunes is in trouble. The question should be whether anyone believes in Hulu anymore.

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An excerpt from a statement by NRF spokesman Scott Krugman:

During the event, it was clear to all who attended that NRF staff members were onsite and that some were shopping ... All consumers who were interviewed were approached directly by the media. It was neither hidden nor disguised to reporters that some shoppers at the event were employed by the National Retail Federation. In one instance, an NRF staff member specifically identified himself and the reporter chose to interview him regardless.

But I heard from Fox reporter Rich Edson, who was covering the story. He said:

The NRF never disclosed the fact that their employees were going to be partaking in online shopping. Mr. Perweiler did not identify himself and I was unaware that he was with the NRF.