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3:00 PM ET, March 12, 2010

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Howell Raines / Washington Post:
Why don't honest journalists take on Roger Ailes and Fox News?  —  One question has tugged at my professional conscience throughout the year-long congressional debate over health-care reform, and it has nothing to do with the public option, portability or medical malpractice.
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Ravi Somaiya / Gawker:
Fawning Political Interviews Have Ruined American Politics
Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Instant Ads Set the Pace on the Web  —  Time is now on the side of online advertisers.  —  Advertisers have been able to direct online messages based on demographics, income and even location, but one element has been largely missing until recently: immediacy.
Discussion: AdExchanger.com and NYConvergence
Business Week:
Revenge of the Cable Guys  —  If you think online TV will be free forever, think again.  The cable companies have a plan to keep control—and stick you with the bill  —  Watch the Video...  Once upon a time, not so long ago, a bunch of small companies in Silicon Valley thought the future of television was theirs.
Discussion: Company Town and NewTeeVee
Crain's New York Business:
Will Arthur Sulzberger make Steve Jobs blink?  —  Matthew Flamm - Don't expect Apple to get between The New York Times and its customers when a digital version of the paper starts appearing on the iPad tablet computer, which will become available in stores April 3.
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Mercedes Bunz / Guardian:
How will print content look on the iPad?  —  Print publishers are hopeful the iPad will hit the streets next month.  —  There are already several test examples out there.  Some blend print and online as BERG's version for the innovative Swedish publishing house Bonnier shows …
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
‘Time’ for promotions  —  Two veteran Time staffers are moving up the magazine's masthead.  —  International Editor Michael Elliott will become the new deputy managing editor, second in command to Managing Editor Rick Stengel, while Nancy Gibbs, a prolific cover story writer, moves into the No. 3 slot as executive editor.
Judith Townend / Journalism.co.uk:
Independent apologises for ‘seriously defamatory’ headline  —  Independent News & Media has apologised for a “seriously defamatory” headline on a comment piece by blogger and writer Zoe Margolis published in the Independent on Sunday [see background here].  In a correction published on its site today, the newspaper said:
David Kaplan / paidContent:
MSNBC Courts Facebook Users With BreakingNews Page  —  MSNBC is continuing to try make better use of social media as a distribution tool with a small effort that ties its @BreakingNews Twitter account to a dedicated Facebook page.  It's not clear how much Facebook fans want real-time news mixed …
Discussion: TechCrunch, WebNewser and Seeking Alpha
Joseph Plambeck / Media Decoder:
Small Michigan Television Station Is ‘Priced to Sell’ on eBay  —  You don't need pockets as deep as Comcast's to get into the TV business.  Or even be a millionaire, apparently.  —  A UHF station in western Michigan - WMKG-LP, Channel 38 - that airs a mix of live talk shows and outdoor sports programming …
Kevin Allocca / TVNewser:
WSJ Reporters in Talks with CNBC?  —  Wall Street Journal reporters Kate Kelly and Dennis Berman could be the latest editorial staffers from the financial paper to make the move to on-air reporters for CNBC.  According to an industry source, there is interest in both and Berman has been seen at the CNBC office.
Discussion: Talking Biz News
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
D.C. Circuit Court Denies Cablevision/Comcast Program Access Challenge  —  Says FCC reasonably concluded rules were still necessary  —  A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Friday denied Cablevision's challenge to the program access rules, according to a copy of the opinion.
Discussion: Multichannel and Company Town
Robert Feder / blogs.vocalo.org:
Trib CEO shoots the messenger — but misses the point  —  After what I wrote about Randy Michaels earlier this week, it's no wonder the Tribune Co. CEO doesn't care much for me.  But who knew of his low regard for the whole business of bloggers?  —  The piece here about his edict banning 119 words …
Bill Mitchell / PoynterOnline:
Ebert & Friends Tweak New Online Business Model  —  Roger Ebert and a few hundred of his closest friends and readers are hammering out a new business model for media online.  —  The money involved is small, just $4.99 a year, an amount dwarfed by an appreciation for what the film critic's fans describe …
Discussion: The Wire and Romenesko
Jennifer Saba / Editor and Publisher:
In '09, New York Times Co. CEO Janet Robinson Again Out-Earned Her Boss  —  NEW YORK For the third year in a row, New York Times Co. CEO Janet Robinson made more money than Chairman and Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., according to a Security and Exchange Commission proxy filing.
Discussion: Romenesko, paidContent and Fitz & Jen
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Plastic Logic Can't Deliver On Que; Delays E-Reader Shipments By Months  —  Another e-reader company is finding it more difficult than expected to deliver devices.  Pre-order customers for the Plastic Logic Que proReader are getting an e-mail from CEO Richard Archuleta about an extended delay …
TechCrunch:
AOL's Big SXSW Bet On Seed and “Bionic Journalism”  —  Editor's Note: This guest post was written and reported by Steven Rosenbaum, the CEO of Magnify.net.  —  Today, the world of music, film, and the internet converges on Austin, Texas for what is fast becoming one of the key the places to launch new software products.
Danny Shea / The Huffington Post:
Ben Zimmer New ‘On Language’ Columnist: New York Times Magazine Names William Safire Successor  —  The New York Times Magazine has named Ben Zimmer its “On Language” columnist.  —  Zimmer, described in the Times' announcement as a linguist and lexicographer, succeeds William Safire …
 
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Mark Walsh / MediaPost:
QandA: The ‘Atlantic Monthly’ Relaunch
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Good News for Netflix Web Users: Disney Re-Ups With Starz
Discussion: Company Town and Multichannel
Stuart Elliott / Media Decoder:
A Pair of Cable Upfront Pitches Suggests a Better Mood on Madison Avenue
Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Scorecard '09: UK's Top Regional Papers Have Lost Half A Billion In Sales
Discussion: Jon Slattery and Editor's Blog
John Cook / Gawker:
Will Slate Let Mickey Kaus Blog During His Gag Senate Run?
Discussion: LA Weekly
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/Film:
The Latest Gimmick: Last Call, an Interactive Horror Movie …
Ben Fenton / Financial Times:
RTL seeks relaxation of advertising rules
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
NYT's Adam Nagourney Leaves DC To Become LA Bureau Chief
Discussion: FishBowlDC and LA Observed
John Cook / Gawker:
Variety Thinks ‘No One Takes [Its] Reviews Seriously,’ …
Discussion: Media Decoder and The Wrap
Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
With scaling issues out of the way, Blogger focuses on features …
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Video: Murdoch: Newspaper Ad Model Isn't Dead
Discussion: WebNewser
 

 
From Techmeme:

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

William Brown / Firstyear's blog-a-log:
Google and Apple use passkeys to capture users by locking credentials into their platforms and have made the UX of passkeys worse than that of password managers

Eugen Rochko / Mastodon Blog:
Mastodon forms a new US non-profit, to receive tax-deductible US donations and in-kind support, with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and others on its board

 
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