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The Daily: Rupert Murdoch’s New Toy

The Daily may be sleek, with its glamorous video anchor, high-res photos, and fancy graphics. But beyond the glitz, the new iPad “newspaper,” which launched today, is more old media than new. Howard Kurtz and Brian Ries report.

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Rupert Murdoch launched his new online newspaper for the Apple iPad called The Daily on February 2 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. (Spencer Platt / Getty Images)

He may be peddling a product available only to a small fraction of the population, but Rupert Murdoch is riding a tsunami of publicity.

With today’s launch of The

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