18 August 2005 @ 5:27PM >> Several people have asked for scanned copies of last weekend’s Daily Telegraph profile, the text of which I posted earlier this week. Now that I have a copy of the paper myself, I was able to do so:

“Meet the Right-wing Michael Moore” by Damian Thompson (The Daily Telegraph, London, 13 August 2005) [4.2MB, PDF file]

In the interest of symmetry, I also scanned the New York Sun profile that ran earlier this year:

“A Conservative Answer to Michael Moore” by Jacob Gershman (The New York Sun, 21 January 2005) [7.1MB, PDF file]

Note: You may need to zoom in when viewing the PDF files; the newspaper text appears very small unless zoomed.

18 August 2005 @ 11:18AM >> Hollywood vs. the old guard of the newspaper industry:

Hollywood is about to deliver bad news to the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times and, to a lesser extent, other big-city dailies around the country. Every major movie studio is rethinking its reliably humongous display ad buys in those papers because those newsosaur readers are, to quote one mogul, “older and elitist” compared to younger, low-brow filmgoers — so it makes no sense to waste the dough.

Wait, it gets worse: I’ve learned that at least two Hollywood movie studios have decided to drastically cut their newspaper display ads as soon as possible.

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“We’re rethinking our newspaper ads and I mean, literally, on every movie. Everybody is,” one movie mogul tells me. “The only people who read newspapers are older and elitist. Movies like Sky High don’t need ads in The New York Times. But the studios did it because newspapers were seen as a necessary evil.

“But I don’t think it’s as important anymore.”