Peter Kafka

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Dish Toots Its Own Horn, Since CBS Won’t

Maybe the Dish/CBS/CNET imbroglio will fade away. But not if Charlie Ergen and company can help it. And the New York Times’ ad department is happy to help.

Here, via  Nieman Journalism Lab’s Justin Ellis, is the full-page thumb-in-the-eye Dish ran in the Times’ Sunday “A” section today. As Ellis notes, some people still see value in print ads.

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I probably shouldn’t be saying this, but it is a compliment of sorts … [Piracy is] something that comes along with having a wildly successful show on a subscription network.

— HBO programming president Michael Lombardo, talking to Entertainment Weekly about the “rampant” piracy of HBO’s “Game of Thrones”