The same witness told police that a man walked to a home in the subdivision, climbed onto an air-conditioner unit and looked into a rectangular window that looked into a bathroom shower. Police said a woman was taking a shower at that time at the home.

[Soup Cans, News & Observer]

(Photo via Soup Cans)

• More politics, international and other non-business news in the front section.
• The second section, Marketplace, becomes "home to the Journal's coverage of corporate America," which sounds a lot like the business newspaper's business section.
• But there's still Money and Investing, which will still have your harder markets and investing news.
• The op-ed section goes to three pages from two.
• A culture section is coming in the fall for the weekend Journal.
• Also in the fall: The website gets "beefed-up interactivity and access to more free articles"

"Turning a paper into an old-fashioned variety show—we have a little of everything—I don't think is the route to success," says a former senior Dow Jones executive. "The risk you run is that you are not best at anything." But the same critics also warn that "it's never a good time to have to confront someone like Murdoch, who doesn't care about making money on a particular product," says newspaper analyst John Morton.

[Newsweek]

[Times]

A few sentence fragments from her note:

“I have to say that it wasn’t a complete surprise…“

“But I was in a state of denial…“

“…it explains a lot about many things…“

“I listened to what you had to say in the interview and I expect you feel you have thought all of this through.“

A friend told Debauchette she was "identifiable by the way I used the word ‘yeah’ and the way I touched my hair." Another didn't think she was recognizable at all.

The blogger has not responded to her mom's email.

I’m stunned, but I’m not ashamed of what I do or what I’ve done. I feel exposed but I don’t feel apologetic. I should feel mortified, but I don’t. Instead, I feel like a very private part of my life has been exposed, like they’ve just caught me in the middle of some sex act. So I suppose I feel awkward.

Debauchette said she appeared on ABC to counter "the old Victorian trope of the broken, dysfunctional, fallen prostitute, incapable of forming her own opinions or making her own decisions." She told Sawyer she has about seven regular clients, mostly married, and that she was once offered $2.9 million to be with a client "exclusively" for a year.

In the video below, excerpted from a longer video posted to Boinkology by Gawker video maven Richard Blakeley, Dabauchette talks about the lover who got her into prostitution, and Sawyer presses her on whether she is truly happy with her work.

He fucked me over his sofa, the flat of his hand pressing down into my back. I felt him take my hair in his hand before he pulled out to come across my lower back, which splattered in a thick, swerving pattern. After, he took a snapshot of his come against my winter-pale skin. Once he toweled my back down and we both dressed, I took a look. It was a beautiful shot.

[Boinkology, Debauchette]

The new venture could create some awkward moments around Hollywood. Leslie Moonves, the chief executive of CBS, is close friends with Harry E. Sloan, the chief executive of MGM, and Jon Feltheimer, the chief executive of Lionsgate. A spokesman for CBS declined to comment.

Last month Mr. Redstone, who is the controlling shareholder in both Viacom and CBS, was asked at an investor conference about the two companies entering each other’s business. “They were always intended to be independent companies, free to compete with each other,” he said.

[Deadline Hollywood, Times]

According to the source, the proponents of the merger are appealing to the mayor's sense of "civic-mindedness," arguing that he is best suited to take the publishing company private to "help protect the brand" in the wake of relentless shareholder assaults. "It is clearly a brand that Bloomberg could help preserve and that he cares about immensely … and could pay a competitive price" for, says this person.

It's not like Bloomberg would run the Times like some sort of non-profit. If that were the case, Rupert Murdoch probably wouldn't have even made the pretense, in the same Newsweek story, of claiming to be intimidated by Bloomberg: "I wouldn't look forward to going up against him," said the News Corp. chief and Wall Street Journal owner.

[Newsweek via PaidContent]

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