A new media watchdog series, the IFC Media Project, makes its debut tonight on the Independent Film Channel.  Host Gideon Yago has spent time at MTV and CBS, experiences that he tells the New York Times helped turn him into a media critic:

In an interview last week, he said he had watched "news stories that were super-relevant get the kibosh because Purina had bought the first hour of the morning show and they wanted to do a profile on fat cats."...

Asked if he has become a journalistic cynic, he responded, "That, my friend, is the understatement of the year."

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