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Greta Van Susteren Confronts Santorum For Saying Fox News 'Shills' For Mitt Romney (Mediaite)
A while ago, a frustrated Rick Santorum argued that Fox News was "shilling" for his rival, Mitt Romney. At the time, Fox News' Brian Kilmeade didn't take it so well. Neither, we found out Tuesday night, did Greta Van Susteren, who gave the candidate a "good-hearted jab" for making the claim. TVNewser Santorum -- who was on the payroll of Fox News until he decided to run for president -- says that the channel is "shilling" for one of his competitors, Romney. Santorum made his comments on the radio show of FNC host Brian Kilmeade. The Hill / Blog Briefing Room "He's had a 10-to-1 money advantage," Santorum said of Romney. "He's had all the organizational advantages. He has Fox News shilling for him every day, no offense Brian, but I see it. And yet, he can't seal the deal because he just doesn't have the goods to be able to motivate the Republican base to win this election."

ABC Family Acquires The Hunger Games (B&C)
ABC Family has bought the rights to the first film of the hugely popular Hunger Games franchise in advance of its theatrical release March 23, according to a source with knowledge of the negotiations.

Rush Limbaugh Calls National Organization For Women 'Nags' (Yahoo! News / The Cutline)
Rush Limbaugh chided the National Organization for Women and its president, Terry O'Neill, on his syndicated radio show Tuesday over comments she made at the group's convention in New Orleans.

AP Names Administration Officials White House Did Not Want Quoted (Yahoo! News / The Cutline)
The White House organized a conference call with two senior administration officials Tuesday to "preview an announcement by President Barack Obama about an important China trade issue," but told reporters on the call not to quote them by name. The Associated Press sidestepped the request, naming them anyway.

Vinnie Malhotra Named SVP At CNN (TVNewser)
Vinnie Malhotra has been named senior vice president of development and acquisitions at CNN, managing editor Mark Whitaker announced Tuesday. CNN.com / PressRoom Based in Los Angeles, Malhotra will report to Amy Entelis, senior VP for talent and content development. He will pursue development opportunities with outside production companies on behalf of the various networks of CNN Worldwide.

OMG! EIC Spencer Goes MIA At AMI's OK! (NY Post / Media Ink)
This is giving new meaning to the term "phoning it in." Richard Spencer, the disappearing editor-in-chief of OK! and Reality Weekly at American Media, has not been in the office since early February.

The Street Names Inman New Editor-In-Chief (Talking Biz News)
William Inman, the former editor-in-chief of Institutional Investor magazine, has been named editor-in-chief of TheStreet.com.

LA Times Beefs Up Orange County Bureau (FishbowlLA)
The Los Angeles Times plans on beefing up its coverage in Orange County with the recent hirings of editor Steve Marble and reporters Jeff Gottlieb, Tony Barboza, and Rick Rojas. LA Observed Before the newspaper's retreat into downtown Los Angeles -- and deep cuts in staffing levels across the board -- during the Tribune ownership era, the LA Times had roughly 200 editorial staffers in Costa Mesa and covered everything in Orange County: news, sports, arts, business, and more. The paper printed a separate Orange County version on presses there, with its own front page and masthead of editors and executives, up to and including a president. Then it was all cut to a small gaggle of reporters who feed into the main LA paper.

Disney Shareholders Re-Elect 10 Board Members Despite Opposition (TheWrap.com)
Ten Disney board members were re-elected Tuesday despite shareholder opposition, and CEO Robert Iger was formally elected as chairman of the board as part of the company's previously announced succession plan.

AOL Slashes Staff At AIM Unit; Wider Cuts Expected (NYT / Bits)
On Friday, AOL notified more than 40 employees from its West Coast offices that they would be out of jobs by the end of the month. More cuts are scheduled in the coming weeks across AOL, according to a number of executives, who spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to speak on the matter, and former executives. The layoffs are expected to include more than 100 AOL employees.

Time Launches Sports Blog (FishbowlNY)
Please prepare yourself for sports pun overload. All set? OK, here we go. Time is hoping for a home run with its new sports blog, Keeping Score. The site will be quarterbacked by Sean Gregory, who has been on the Time team for about 10 years. Keeping Score will feature more than just stats; its goal is to tackle all the related controversies and issues. Adweek In the past few years, Time.com has rolled out a number of new verticals covering everything from technology to health to politics. But until now, the site hasn't had a destination for all of Time's sports coverage. MediaJobsDaily Columnist Sean Gregory will helm it, but assisting him, according to the memo, will be: contributing writers Ishaan Tharoor, Hannah Beech, Nick Carbone, Bobby Ghosh, Tony Karon, Adam Sorensen, Glen Levy, Alice Park, Feifei Sun, Nate Rawlings, Josh Sanburn, Tim Morrison, and Bill Saporito; project boss Shanta Speller; developer Micah Ernst; assistants/producers (their actual titles are unclear in the memo) Katie Rooney and Christine Lim; photo assistant Jared Miller; editor Megan Friedman; producer Nick Carbone (who will also be writing); and top editor Daniel Eisenberg. Uh…PHEW!

HuffPost Steals Away NJ's Klapper (FishbowlDC)
National Journal's Ethan Klapper, a fresh-faced recent college grad, has been snapped up by The Huffington Post to be its new social media editor. Poynter / MediaWire When Mandy Jenkins announced that she was leaving her position as social media editor of The Huffington Post last month, she said she was "relieved to get out of the social media editor game." Now her successor, Klapper, can't wait to get into it.

New York's Vulture Adds Two (FishbowlNY)
New York magazine's Vulture, an entertainment site, has added two editors. Jessica Grose joins the site from Slate, where she most recently worked as senior editor, managing the DoubleX section. Grose will act as deputy editor for Vulture. Gilbert Cruz has also joined the site. Cruz was most recently a senior editor at Time.com, overseeing art coverage. He has been with Time for almost five years. Cruz will be a senior editor at Vulture. NY Observer And don't forget that Grose's debut novel, Sad Desk Salad (about a blogger, naturally), is due out in September. Capital New York Days after it was reported that deputy entertainment editor and Vulture.com writer Willa Paskin had left to become TV critic at Salon, the magazine announced that Grose, of Slate's Double X section, and Cruz, of Time, have joined Vulture as deputy editor and senior editor, respectively.

Google And Hollywood Reporter Align For D.C. Party On Eve Of White House Correspondents' Dinner (THR)
Hollywood and Silicon Valley are coming together in an unlikely locale: Washington, D.C. The Hollywood Reporter teamed up with Google to host an invitation-only event April 27 for leaders from the worlds of politics, technology, and entertainment. The exclusive event will take place the night before the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner and will be co-hosted by Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt and THR editorial director Janice Min.

Magazines' Newsstand Slide Smaller In Canada (AdAge / MediaWorks)
Magazines have long blamed their continuing newsstand declines on everything from gas prices to store layouts -- everything but demand for magazines themselves. But there's something interesting happening over the border to the north: Newsstand sales aren't falling anywhere near as much.

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Brooks And Husband Among Phone-Hacking Arrests (Sky News)
Former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks and her racehorse trainer husband, Charlie, are among six people arrested by police investigating phone hacking, according to Sky sources. Guardian The former News International chief executive was arrested at her home in Oxfordshire by detectives from Operation Weeting. Sources also said that her husband, racehorse trainer Charlie Brooks, was arrested. The Metropolitan police refused to confirm the names of those arrested, but said that a 43-year-old woman and a 49-year-old man had been held. News International and the lawyer for Brooks declined to comment on the reports. NYT Brooks, 43, is a confidante of Rupert Murdoch and erstwhile friend of Prime Minister David Cameron. She also worked as the editor of the now-defunct News of the World and the editor of The Sun tabloid before being named chief executive of News International, the British newspaper arm of Murdoch's media empire. Brooks was also arrested last summer on suspicion of phone hacking and illegally paying the police.

PEJ: Romney's Positive Media Coverage Climbs (B&C)
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney emerged from Super Tuesday not only with six of 10 wins, but with momentum in the national media narrative.

Whitney Houston's Hairdresser Cashes In On Her Death, As NBC Opens Checkbook For Photos (TVNewser)
One of the few people in the room with pop star Whitney Houston when she died is apparently cashing in on her death.

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