Posted inComputers and the Internet Foster, Rusty Maine Media Writing and Writers Rusty Foster Tracks Media Gossip From an Island in Maine Rusty Foster could never live in New York. But his hit newsletter, Today in Tabs, is an enduring obsession of the city’s media class. Posted by By Steven Kurutz
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