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​You know who still uses an antique AOL email account, apart from your mom? A lot of really famous and important people. Politico's Ben Smith argues today that the outdated email service has actually gone from uncool and dated all the way back around to being a "status symbol," a concept familiar to derivative fashion designers and mustachioed trust-fund hipsters. Whether or not that's really true, we got a kick out of the list of people Smith says are still @aol.com:

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​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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​At a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, White House spokesperson Jay Carney said that President Obama and his team do have visuals of Osama Bin Laden's dead body that are "being reviewed," but he declined to "get into specifics." Tuesday morning, Drudge Report claimed that President Obama had already decided to make photographic proof public, but was still working out the details of the release, while CNN detailed exactly the sort of media available that might prove to the world that Sunday's mission in Pakistan really did kill the most wanted terrorist of the last decade. (Fakes are already running rampant.) Inside our daily media column Press Clips, we ponder the current situation with the still-secret photos, in addition to potential problems with publication should the photo, or photos, be released. Plus, in non-Bin Laden media news, life at the Atlantic after Andrew Sullivan, an ambushed Rupert Murdoch and more.

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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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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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​On Thursday, the Newspaper Guild made a public plea to all unpaid writers for the Huffington Post to withdraw their services as a part of a strike against using unpaid labor in the wake of HuffPo's $315 million sale to AOL. "Just as we would ask writers to stand fast and not cross a physical picket line, we ask that they honor this electronic picket line," said the Guild in an announcement. Today, HuffPo spokesperson Mario Ruiz responded that most of the companies are "not professional writers" anyway, so they probably don't even want money. More on the battle of the press releases inside a Friday evening edition of Press Clips, our daily media round-up. Plus: the Observer's new tech site has a hit already, while the company that owns The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, AdWeek, MediaWeek and Brandweek may have put them all up for sale. Or maybe not!

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​AOL is balancing a lot right now. In addition to letting hundreds go last week, the media giant is moving toward becoming an editorial powerhouse, sucking up websites like Michael Arrington's TechCrunch family and Arianna Huffington's The Huffington Post, which is even hiring more journalists for the occasion. But new partnerships and Brady Bunch-style families require a lot of compromise, and today one of the bratty children swung upwards at Poppa AOL. Sort of! TechCrunch is fighting with Moviefone (!?), The Huffington Post is still fighting with the New York Times and the Washington Post is accidentally publishing edits on the internet -- all inside Press Clips, our daily media round-up.

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​Since becoming a pair with his company's $315 million purchase of The Huffington Post, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong and HuffPo founder Arianna Huffington have overseen the cutting of hundreds of content providers on the parent company's side, with Armstrong presiding over the laying off of over 2,000 since his tenure began. But on her side, Huffington is doing some big name hiring, and of real journalists too, probably much to the dismay of anyone rooting for the robots or Bill Keller. More on her pick-ups, plus a new music editor for our own Village Voice, and other media news inside the Press Clips daily round-up.

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Pat Sullivan, AP

​The case of an 11-year-old girl gang raped by as many as 18 men and boys in Cleveland, Texas has been a source of horror, anger and confusion since it made national news on Tuesday, with some critics of the media coverage believing that everyone from the Houston Chronicle to the New York Times engaged in victim-blaming. Quoting members of the community, who put fault with the girl's parents or style of dress, the reporting was called "appalling" and one petition requested that the Times provide "a published apology for their coverage of this incident and publish an editorial from a victim's rights expert on how victim blaming in the media contributes to the prevalence of sexual assault." See the Times' reaction inside Press Clips, our daily media round-up.

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Bill Keller, executive editor

​New York Times executive editor Bill Keller does some tired stomping and finger-wagging from atop a his new pulpit this weekend with his second go as a columnist at Hugo Lindgren's redesigned New York Times Magazine. In this filing, to be published Sunday, Keller writes "All the Aggregation That's Fit to Aggregate," which amounts to a half-baked screed against aggregation and blogging, couched in some almost self-aware personal satire. Ultimately it's more auto-erotic asphyxiation than self-flagellation, leaving Keller sounding both serious and attuned to the new media idea that swinging at rivals gets attention. But he also comes across as stuffy, arrogant and threatened. He throws punches in the direction of, mostly notably, Arianna Huffington, but also at media reporters not worthy of naming, media thinkers like Clay Shirky, Jay Rosen and Jeff Jarvis, and maybe unintentionally, about 90% of young people hoping to be SERIOUS REPORTERS, who are practicing by writing on the internet. But for Keller, it's hard to land a shot from up there on the throne. Here we go! Press Clips, our daily media column.

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