Matt Cooper

Folau aims higher in Cup showdown

INTERNATIONAL Centre of the Year Israel Folau is primed to produce his best performance of 2008 in Saturday's Centenary World Cup final at Suncorp Stadium after admitting he has yet to fully hit his straps. The 19-year-old...

How Katie Couric Prepped For Sarah Palin

IF you “Want to Hear What Katie Couric Said Yesterday? Don’t Read Portfolio.” So says the Wall Street Journal’s Peter Kafka. Kafka says that Portfolio media blogger Jeff Bercovici had to pull down a story obtained under Chatham...

Want To Hear What Katie Couric Said Yesterday? Don’t Read Portfolio [MediaMemo]

How serious is media investment group Quadrangle about keeping its annual Foursquare conference private? Serious enough that the only account I've seen of it stayed live on the Web for just a few hours yesterday. Portfolio.com...

Shhhhhh! Media, Tech Moguls Meeting Today. Don’t Tell Anyone! [MediaMemo]

Under normal circumstances, if the CEOs of big companies like Cisco, Microsoft, and Comcast speak in front of an audience of bigwigs, it's news. But you're unlikely to hear what John Chambers, Steve Ballmer and Brian Roberts...

Rahm Poked Me!

Click here for Barack Obama’s Facebook Administration page >>Click here to read Gillian Reagan on The Facebook Administration Barack Obama President-elect 3,075,248 supporters Fun facts: Favorite movie, One Flew Over the...

Tech execs, biz media heavyweights get together at no-press event

Peter Kafka of All Things Digital writes Tuesday about a technology conference where some top technology industry executives are talking with business journalists, but the private equity event is closed to media who would like...

Sarah Palin Leaker Outs Himself...and Turns Out to Be a Hoaxer!

The leaker who "revealed" to Carl Cameron of FOX News that Sarah Palin didn't know that Africa was a continent or which nations were in the North American Free Trade Agreement has outed himself. First of all the leaker turned...

Eisenstadt the source for Sarah Palin Africa leak… and proud of it.

By now you’ve all heard the Fox News report last week that “unnamed” former McCain advisers leaked that Sarah Palin was confused about whether Africa was a continent, and which countries were in NAFTA. I was perfectly happy...

Knives out for Bertie in a re-writing of history

TOMORROW night's Bertie opens with a sequence leaving no doubt that the episode intends to deal with the former Taoiseach's "bizarre" financial affairs. Ostensibly, 15 minutes of the programme are given over to it. Ostensibly,...

'I get embarrassed for the people at RTE and their excitement over the US election... I wonder if...

By Brendan O'Connor Sunday November 09 2008 Saturday Not to sound like Gerry Ryan, but we go to this new steakhouse in Cork, Boardwalk Bar and Grill. Wednesday This girl rings me to go on Matt Cooper to talk about the Jonathan...

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