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Just what constitutes "fair use" of copyrighted material has always been hard to define. Now a new website, Mediaite.com, is using that ambiguity to build a business model on other companies' content.

I'm not the only one who thinks Mediaite's Power Grid leaves something to be desired. On his Sirius XM (SIRI) radio show this morning, Howard Stern took a verbal pickaxe to the new media-industry news site, insisting he should have be ranked at the top of its list of the most influential radio...

Power lists are, by their nature, kind of stupid. The idea that something as subjective as influence can be empirically measured and rank-ordered is inherently contentious: Lists are meant to provoke arguments, not agreement. But some power lists are stupider than others. And perhaps the...

The Huffington Post is fond of calling itself "the internet newspaper." And it is like an increasing number of actual newspapers in one important regard: the direction of its cash flow. That would be out, not in. Yes, it turns out that, despite some early noises about crossing into the black --...