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    <title><![CDATA[Mother Jones Leaked Videos: Who Spied On Mitt Romney?]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[A leaked video posted on YouTube by Mother Jones magazine highlights the difficulty of politicians speaking candidly in small groups. Meanwhile, the identity of the person who originally recorded the video at a Mitt Romney fundraiser has yet to be revealed.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 03:11:49 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Newsweek’s ‘Muslim Rage’ Inspires Twitter Glee]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Newsweek magazine and Tina Brown had hoped to spark a conversation about the magazine&#039;s latest cover story, which came with the headline "Muslim Rage." Instead, Twitter erupted with a stream of light-hearted tweets about everyday Muslim discontent.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 07:04:03 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Church of Scientology Blasts Vanity Fair’s Tom Cruise Expose As ‘Shoddy Journalism’ And ‘Religious Bigotry’ [Read Letter]]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Jeffrey K. Riffer, a lawyer for the Church of Scientology, wrote an eight-page letter to Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter hoping to stop an expose of the church from ever being published.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:12:16 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Village Voice Editor Tony Ortega Is Leaving To Write A Scientology Book]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Tony Ortega, who has been the editor-in-chief of the Village Voice since 2007, announced via blog post on Friday that he is stepping down next week. The alt-weekly has seen a number of staff layoffs in the last few years.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2012 08:25:31 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[‘Innocence of Muslims’: Could Actors Sue Over Anti-Muslim Re-Writes?]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The actors who appeared in the Islamophobic movie that set off violent protests across the Middle East have maintained that they thought they were making a simple adventure movie set in Biblical times. Some entertainment law experts say the actors might have grounds to sue the filmmaker who duped them.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2012 06:53:13 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[&#039;Innocence of Muslims&#039;: Sound Expert Says Islamophobic Dialogue Definitely Dubbed [Exclusive Transcript]]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The actors appearing in the movie that sparked riots throughout the Middle East say they were not aware of its anti-Muslim dialogue. IBTimes spoke with a veteran sound engineer for a professional assessment of which instances of dialogue were over-dubbed in a 13-minute clip of the movie that was posted on YouTube.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 03:17:11 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Zoe Saldana Too Light-Skinned To Play Nina Simone: Petition]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[An online petition was posted on the website Change.org calling on the filmmakers of a Nina Simone biopic to re-cast Zoe Salanda with an actress of a darker complexion.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 01:49:17 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Glenn Beck Tries To Be The Right-Wing Oprah Winfrey]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Former Fox News host Glenn Beck is returning to TV on Wednesday through a deal with the satellite broadcaster Dish Network. The transition mirrors a similar move by Oprah Winfrey, who last year left her talk show behind to run her own cable network.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 07:13:27 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Sam Bacile And His Low-Budget Anti-Muslim Movie: Is It All A Hoax?]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Is there really a Sam Bacile, and does his movie, "Innocence of Muslims," even exist? So far only scant details have emerged about a filmmaker whose low-budget movie sparked deadly riots in Egypt and Libya that left four Americans dead.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 04:29:17 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[The New Yorker Banned From Facebook Over Nipple Cartoon]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The social-networking giant Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) temporarily banned a page from the New Yorker magazine over a cartoon depicting a shirtless Adam and Eve. The vagueness of Facebook&#039;s community standards has provoked the ire of artists and photographers whose artwork and photographs have been yanked from the site.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 08:14:17 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Trade Magazines Struggle To Stay Relevant: Why Digital May Not Be The Only Answer]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Once indefensible, industry trades have seen their influence diminish in recent years. Trade magazines such as Variety, the Hollywood Reporter, Backstage and Advertising Age have all tried different ways to cope with a migration of readers from print to the Web.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 06:23:56 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[One World Trade: Film And TV Producers Navigate New York’s Rapidly Changing Skyline]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Although still unfinished, One World Trade Center is now the most prominent building in the New York City skyline, leaving film and TV producers with a particular challenge: How do they deal with a skyline that changes by the day?]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 02:47:06 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Obama-Bashing Filmmaker Wants To Topple Michael Moore]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA["2016: Obama&#039;s America" the second-highest-grossing political documentary of all time, right behind Michael Moore&#039;s "Fahrenheit 9/11."]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 07:07:07 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Seth Rogen, Chloe Moretz And Nicolas Cage Join DreamWorks Dream Team: Massive 4-Year Slate Unveiled]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[DreamWorks Animation&#039;s ambitious 12-movie slate, the largest ever for an animation studio, includes a combination of sequels, spinoffs, adaptations and, yes, even a few original concepts.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 03:20:37 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[The End Of Pop Culture: What Eastwooding Tells Us About The Future Of Media]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[From Charlie Sheen&#039;s public unraveling to Todd Akin&#039;s "legitimate rape" comment, the most recognizable pop-culture trends in recent years have come from the real-life folly of the public sphere. That&#039;s a far shift, media experts say, from the days when a one-size-fits-all monoculture was produced on Hollywood sound stages and back lots.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 01:58:10 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Theater Weekend: 5 Plays To See On Broadway And Off]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Since most New York theater lovers will see, at best, one or two shows in any given week, the International Business Times weeded out the washouts to spotlight the best new options on the boards this week.]]></description>
    <guid>http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/382143/20120909/broadway-chaplin-henrik-ibsen-59e59.htm</guid>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2012 03:57:41 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[News Corp. And Disney Stocks Reach 52-Week Highs]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[On Thursday, News Corp.&#039;s stock climbed to a 52-week high of $24.69 before closing at $24.50. The jump came two days after Anthony DiClemente, an analyst for Barclays Capital, upgraded News Corp.&#039;s stock rating to "overweight.]]></description>
    <guid>http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/382004/20120908/news-corp-walt-disney-company-rupert-murdoch.htm</guid>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2012 06:19:47 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bing Vs. Google -- Microsoft’s Pepsi Challenge Backfires]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Microsoft on Thursday evoked the famous Pepsi Challenge marketing campaign when it launched the "Bing It On" challenge, an online blind comparison test in which its Bing search engine goes head to head with Google.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2012 02:32:13 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Tom Brokaw Rushed To Hospital Following DNC Coverage]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The NBC news legend, who had just appeared on MSNBC&#039;s "Morning Joe," was taken by ambulance to Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, N.C., out of an "abundance of caution."]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:28:27 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Cable Networks Pull Partisan Eyeballs For Convention Coverage]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[According to Nielsen, the left-leaning MSNBC was the ratings winner among cable news networks that covered the opening of the DNC on Tuesday, a different picture from last week, when Fox News cleaned house during the RNC.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 07:12:56 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[CNN Should Fire Erick Erickson Over Vagina Tweet: Petition]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Posted on the activist website Change.org, a petition launched by user Mary Rickles of San Francisco said Erickson&#039;s continued presence on the network damages the value of the CNN brand. The petition is circulating under the name "CNN: Fire Erick Erickson.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Fired For Being Christian? Religious Employees Have Their Day In Court]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The landmark hearing follows six years of legal battles and tribunals for the four plaintiffs, whose high-profile cases are seen as a polarizing dividing line between British Christians who want to express their faith in the workplace and employers who assert their right to impose dress codes and guidelines for workplace conduct.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 07:27:35 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Hollywood’s Incredible Shrinking Audiences]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[This past weekend, Hollywood studios received bad news. The number of tickets sold during Hollywood&#039;s all-important summer season -- the first week in May through Labor Day weekend -- shrank to 532 million in 2012. That&#039;s off 4 percent from last year and on track to be the lowest summer attendance in almost 20 years, according to preliminary estimates from Hollywood.com.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Somebody Call Orson: Robin Williams Eyes TV Comeback]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The hyperactive comic actor is in talks to team up with the master showrunner David E. Kelley for a single-camera comedy set in the advertising industry.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2012 11:10:28 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Newsweek’s Anti-Obama Cover Scores Big -- Is This The Only Way To Sell Magazines?]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Newsweek set off a firestorm earlier this month when it published a divisive cover story by Niall Ferguson entitled "Hit the Road, Barack," in which the author claims that the Romney/Ryan ticket is our nation&#039;s only hope for prosperity.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2012 06:16:07 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[5 Reasons Why Clint Eastwood Lost His Argument With Invisible Obama]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[By now everyone has heard about Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood&#039;s faux Q&A session with an empty chair at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Thursday night. Taking the exchange at face value, here are five reasons why the furniture debate proved ineffective.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2012 04:16:22 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Publishers Agree To Reimburse E-Book Customers $69M In Price-Fixing Scheme]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Hachette Book Group, Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins Publishers will have to issue reimbursements ranging from 25 cents to $1.32 per book to customers who paid inflated e-book prices between April 1 and May 21, 2010.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2012 01:26:06 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[History’s Gay Fail: Is The Cable Network Playing It Too Straight?]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[GLAAD released its 6th annual "Network Responsibility Index," which maps depictions of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community on primetime broadcast and cable television.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 07:13:30 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Can Tweeting The Workday Away Save The Economy?]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[A new report released by business consulting giant McKinsey Global Institute shows that social media tools stand to add from $900 billion to $1.3 trillion to the economy, largely through increased productivity among skilled workers.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 03:04:27 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Kim Kardashian Ends Legal Feud Over ‘Fake Kim Kardashian’]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Kim Kardashian has settled a $20 million lawsuit against the clothing retailer Gap Inc. (NYSE: GPS) over an Old Navy]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 07:46:23 +1000</pubDate>
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