​Fox News boss Roger Ailes loves Chris Christie and has made no secret of his desire for the New Jersey governor to run for president in 2012. Christie maintains that he's 100% not running this time around, though that hasn't stopped a relationship from blooming between the powerful Republican pair, with Ailes working in some capacity as a "confidential adviser" to Christie, which according to the governor's office, protects correspondence between the two. Gawker reporter John Cook filed an Open Records Act request -- not unlike the ones we've followed in the cases of Osama Bin Laden and Sarah Palin -- "seeking any correspondence between the two men, as well as any records of meetings or phone calls with Ailes from Christie's schedule or call logs." As these things tend to go, the reporter was denied. More details inside a Friday evening edition of Press Clips, our daily media column, also including more dirty on AOL and the week's whiniest lawsuit.

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​We mentioned last week that a large portion of all the emails Sarah Palin sent in her half-term as governor of Alaska are finally being made public long after a few publications requested them via open records laws back in 2008. It's now being reported that the mother-load will drop tomorrow. MSNBC, ProPublica and Mother Jones are partnering on the job of slogging through the (doubtlessly typo-ridden) emails, which total near 25,000 pages, and the combining of efforts will include a WikiLeaks-like searchable archive. So you can help too! But don't expect any compensation. Find out more in Press Clips, our daily media column, plus HuffPo's killer traffic month and the New York Times' testy response. But wait, there's more!

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​After some unsuccessful press jockeying on both sides, negotiations between Fox News and their cash-cow-turned-credibility-sucker Glenn Beck pretty much disintegrated and so they worked together on his exit from the channel. Now it's time for him to ride his intensely angry, loyal, and crazy mob of fans straight to the bank, so he's moving where the money is: online. But Beck's not counting on The Blaze, his conservative blog, to sustain him because websites alone tend not to pay the bills. Instead, Beck will launch a subscription-based online network called GBTV (guess what it stands for) with both scripted and unscripted content. The New York Times has the details, which we'll run down in our daily media column Press Clips, as well as Arianna's AOL woes and a redesign for the New York Observer.

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Today is the first day of TechCrunch Disrupt, the tech-news site's annual three-day conference of exhibitors, panels, and start-up schmoozing, this year held at Pier 94. Each morning's agenda consists of onstage "fireside chats": Tomorrow, for example, will feature Charlie Rose interviewing Ashton Kutcher. But this morning's star was AOL content head Arianna Huffington (after AOL's recent HuffPo acquisition, she is the boss of TechCrunch) who emerged for a panel discussion -- ostensibly about journalism in the social-media age -- to answer questions from email OG Nora Ephron, alongside friend NYU J-school professor Jay Rosen. (TechCrunch co-editor Erick Schonfeld later informed the room that he initially invited New York Times editor Bill Keller to debate the Lady Huff, but that Keller "chickened out.")

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​The testiness between the Huffington Post and New York Times continued late this week with HuffPo/AOL chief Arianna Huffington taking a lunch speech as yet another opportunity to needle Times executive editor Bill Keller. To be fair, Keller started it, but at this point, it's the Times that'd be slumming by deigning to scuffle with an aggregating machine anyway, while Huffington wins headlines and actually some hearts (not to mention Times employees!) by standing up to the big Bill bully. In other words, any time HuffPo can be seen as the underdog -- whether they actually are or not -- Arianna is winning and so she'll continue to throw rocks at the journalistic thrown. So she did it again! More inside a Friday evening edition of Press Clips, our daily media column.

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​Front and center in today's edition of the New York Times is an article entitled "In Dossier, Portrait of Push for Post-9/11 Attacks," a piece that uses this week's WikiLeaks document dump about detainees held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay to tell of terrorist plans never carried out. The article is one of many Guantanamo angles so far this week, not only from the Times, but other domestic news organizations like the Washington Post and NPR, along with international outlets like Britain's Telegraph and Guardian, which are culling the raw classified documents and repackaging them as news stories. But are American outlets being more deferential to the U.S. government than their international counterparts by highlighting the danger of the detainees instead of the well-documented innocents held uncharged, the abuses they suffered and the flawed system of interrogation? Let's explore in Press Clips, our daily media column. Plus: the Village Voice has a new Metro columnist!

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​In media circles Michael Wolff is notorious for pissing people off, thereby winning the attention he covets. It's sometimes masterful, in its way, but more often shameful. Today, Wolff relaunches the trade (don't-call-it-a-trade) publication Adweek, which he's merged with Brandweek and Mediaweek as editorial director. The new website, fresh for today, looks nice and reads easy (though it seems to have no "single page" option for multiple-page stories) but the only article generating any chatter so far this morning is a "Sex and the Media" column by Hephzibah Anderson, author of Chastened: The Unexpected Story of My Year Without Sex, about Arianna Huffington. It's classic Wolff, which is to say, glib and if you allow it to be, offensive. Here are all of the words and phrases used to indicate that Arianna Huffington is a woman -- more specifically, a "courtesan" -- and not much more.

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​Our country's current, most fake president candidate, the billionaire Donald Trump, won't shut up. Though the media is mostly playing his games, reporting on all of the dumb shit he says -- with the exception of the New York Observer, but that's complicated -- he also benefits from starting stupid fights with anyone and everyone, especially news organizations that will continue to cover him no matter what, and maybe even more assuming he acts liek a huge asshole. And so Trump claimed, "I saved the Daily News. ...I did them a huge favor." He then accused the newspaper of "disloyalty," which should be a moot point in a conversation between a "political candidate" (or businessman!) and a newspaper. Proceed for more media gossip inside Press Clips.

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​In its intermittent battles with unpaid writers, The Huffington Post and its (often reluctant) defenders have trotted out a number of arguments, including most commonly the assertion that the bloggers write without compensation for attention, and most like it just fine that way. Others have argued that in fact, the unpaid, sometimes amateur bloggers are not very valuable to the site and should maybe even be paying HuffPo for the honor. But Jonatahn Tasini, a labor advocate, is taking his counterpoints to the forefront today, having filed a class action lawsuit looking to squeeze a minimum of $105 million dollars from Arianna Huffington's Greek fists of fury. All of the details inside Press Clips, our daily media column.

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Pastor Terry Jones

​There's a media story behind the tragic murders of 24 people in Afghanistan, killed amid riots against United Nations works and citizens of Afghanistan on account of the Koran burning ceremony held by Florida pastor Terry Jones. At his small southern church, Jones burned the Muslim holy book on March 20 to little fanfare because he'd been threatening to do so since the fall of 2010. Eventually, though, the news made its way to the Middle East and violence predictably followed. At Poynter.org today, Steve Myers traces the news from Florida to Afghanistan, while at least one media writer blames "Journalism 2.0" and implicates a 21-year-old reporter in the foreign deaths. More inside Press Clips, our daily media column.

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