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Vietnamese media condemns Bush administration The BBC reports the official communist party newspaper in Vietnam has printed a strong, wide ranging attack on the policies of President Bush. MORE

Moscow journalists protest against independent TV takeover Journalists from Russia's last independent television station and their supporters have rallied in Moscow against the station's new management. Police say about 5,000 people turned out in rainy conditions to oppose a takeover of the network, NTV, by the state-connected gas company, Gazprom. ABC On-Line Reports MORE

News Corp./Hughes Talks "Extraordinarily Difficult"
A News Corp. executive said Wednesday that talks to acquire Hughes Electronics and its DirecTV gem continue to be rough, but that the media giant would still pursue a spin off of global satellite assets once conditions improved in the markets. "At this stage it is hard for me to comment on our talks except to say they have been extraordinarily difficult," MORE

Our Reader Reporters hunger for more media news

(Upside) Keeping up with the On-Line Press by Louise Rosen
Every morning Patrick Phillips wakes up at the crack of dawn to update the media news on IWantMedia.com. In the past few months he has had to wake up earlier and go to bed later to keep up with the growing number of links to breaking media news stories.

"We are now in a period of fundamental change in the media," says Philips. If in the past couple of years the Internet has been the story of the day, in the coming years it will be media. MORE