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"Beat the Press" panelists sound off on their rants and raves of the week: Topics include the use of comedians as comentators; what constitues an "exclusive"?; new policies for online comments on blogs; too much Andrew Young; and treatment of Sarah Palin's palm-reading.

Networks and cable companies are in a battle over re-transmission fees - at the expense of viewers.  And will “TV Everywhere” – where cable companies  stream programs to the web for their customers - threaten the emerging market of online TV?

More and more newspapers are beginning to charge for their web sites. Newsday is now charging for online content.  The Boston Globe is changing the pricing of its Globe Reader.  Will it make for a healthier news industry?

The Christian Science Monitor is doing better than many had predicted since ending its daily edition for online (and a weekly print magazine). Could the Monitor’s business model work for other newspapers?

This week, the New York Times acknowledged that a front-page trend story that Americans are heading to their laptops before their first cup of coffee did not have enough examples to prove the story.  Most of the subjects were connected to the reporter or the newspaper, and it wasn't the first time Times' reporters didn't exactly knock themselves out to find examples of so-called lifestyle trends. Are feature reporters being lazy because the stories are so worthless? Is there any value to trend stories?

Former Boston Globe editor Doug Bailey ruffled feathers when he suggested that online comments have outlived their usefulness. Many newspapers allow readers to post comments on news stories, but the comments can often be misinformed.  So what is the value of allowing readers to offer these sometimes insensitive opinions on a newspaper’s web site? 

Media entrepreneur Steven Brill is proposing Journalism Online, an operation that would allow newspapers and magazines to charge for online content.  Can it work?