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8:45 AM ET, April 14, 2010

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Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook:
Dear Professor Krugman ...  I read your blog post about my column in Tuesday's newspaper.  —  As you know, I'm a big fan of yours.  I just want to point to some of the source material I had consulted for the column.  —  You quoted part of my column that said, “Some economists …
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Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:
Shots Fired: New York Times Columnists Andrew Ross Sorkin and Paul Krugman's Beef Officially Cooked  —  ​Well-paid media celebrity and (purportedly) boyishly good-looking New York Times' star finance reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin is, as they say on the streets, “starting some s**t.”
Paul Krugman:
Andrew Ross Sorkin Owes Several People an Apology
Matea Gold / Company Town:
CNN execs say they plan no imminent changes to primetime despite ratings slide  —  CNN executives on Tuesday said they had no imminent plans to change the network's prime-time line-up despite a steep fall-off in viewership, but suggested they are stepping up efforts to increase the performance of the current slate of shows.
Discussion: Mediaite and Inside Cable News
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Stuart Elliott / Media Decoder:
CNN Fights Back With ‘Objectivity’ Arguments  —  In a presentation to advertisers and agencies on Tuesday morning, executives of CNN indicated how they plan to counter the growing ratings of — and buzz about — the rival Fox News Channel: play up their channel's identity as an objective source of news.
Gillian Reagan / The Wire:   CNN Takes Over The Internet With New Tech, Showbiz, Food Sites (TWX)
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Twitter to Rival Ad Players: Tread Carefully  —  Twitter has started showing ads to its users.  But Twitter is not the only one doing this-there's a host of start-ups trying to insert ads into the Twitter stream, and more on the way.  —  So here's a question: Will Twitter force publishers …
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
Twitter's Costolo: Promoted Tweets And The Importance Of ‘Resonance’
John Koblin / New York Observer:
Battle of the Barons!  —  Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson and Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. met last week for the first time.  They were at the Manhattan apartment of Sir Martin Sorrell, head of the big WPP advertising firm, and they were there for a dinner on the night of April 6.
Discussion: Fitz & Jen and Talking Biz News
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Obama's disregard for media reaches new heights at nuclear summit  —  World leaders arriving in Washington for President Obama's Nuclear Security Summit must have felt for a moment that they had instead been transported to Soviet-era Moscow.  —  They entered a capital that had become a military encampment …
Felix Salmon:
Questions answered on business blogging  —  I got an email this morning from a journalism student with a few questions; I thought if I was answering them I might as well do so on the blog, for anybody else interested.  —  1) How and why were business bloggers able to gain so much respect …
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Tough love: Gawker finds making it harder for comments to be seen leads to more (and better) comments  —  That chart is, for news organizations seeking to tame their commenters, perhaps the best evidence yet that adding a few obstacles for those seeking the leave their mark on a web page can actually lead to more comments.
Jonathan Fuhrman / Mediaite:
Jimmy Fallon Blossoms Into A Late Night Staple  —  Late Night with Jimmy Fallon is funny.  There, I said it.  Getting it out there in the open for all to see/hear/read/absorb/inhale (you get the point) is therapeutic.  I honestly feel better already.  If you have been staying …
Maria Conde / Editors Weblog:
British PM Brown: readers unlikely to pay for basic online news  —  Gordon Brown is the latest public figure to voice his opinion on the feasibility of pay walls.  Although Brown admitted that readers should be encouraged to pay and would probably do so for some online content …
Erica Jong / The Huffington Post:
Oprah, Kitty and Me  —  I've never been able to control my public image.  Because my first successful book was thought to be about sex, sex, sex, I got stuck being the happy ho of literature and that image has been hard to dodge — especially in sex-crazed puritanical, America.
Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
YouTube CEO Chad Hurley Defends Net Neutrality  —  In an exclusive interview with TheWrap, YouTube CEO and co-founder Chad Hurley defended the need for net neutrality as a means for preserving the democratization of video on the internet.  —  “The telecom industry pretends like it's not getting paid …
Chris Stevens / Recombu:
iBrothers Grimm: The eBook is dead, long live the eBook  —  This is a guest post by Chris Stevens.  Chris is one half of Atomic Antelope, a small iPhone app studio with just two staff — one based in London, the other in Seattle, USA.  They have made the iPad's best-selling children's book app to date.
Discussion: The Afterword
Frank Sennett / The TOC Blog:
Huffington Post denies controversial quote about Kachingle  —  Last Thursday, media reporter Mike Miner posted an addendum to his latest column on the Chicago Reader's blog.  The post, headlined, “HuffPo — We Can't Have That...,” contained a serious allegation about The Huffington Post.
Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:
Whedon To Direct Marvel's ‘The Avengers’  —  I'm told Marvel Studios is in final negotiations for Buffy the Vampire Slayer series architect Joss Whedon to direct Marvel Studios' The Avengers.  That's the fast-tracked film that would amount to an all-star team of Marvel superheros …
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
The Dark Side of Steve Jobs  —  Steve Jobs seduced New York's media moguls all too easily, convincing them his iPad would magically keep them in business — and in chauffeured limos.  But nothing easy comes free, and the publishers' digital debt is now due.
Tricia Duryee / paidContent:
A Dozen National Broadcasters Align To Create One Mobile TV Network  —  After working together for years through a trade association, a dozen broadcasters are now forming a financially-backed joint venture to develop a national mobile service, including live and on-demand video …
Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
ABC News Employees Upset Over Amanpour This Week Hire  —  Ever since the non-ABC News hire of Christiane Amanpour for This Week anchor, rumors have circulated about employee discontent over the decision as well as questions over what the show would become with a more internationally-focused anchor at the helm.
Discussion: The Wire
Andrea Pitzer / Nieman Storyboard:
From Treme to the 9/11 Commission Report: index as story  —  Sunday night's Treme debut found a companion in Monday morning's Times-Picayune: “HBO's Treme Explained.”  The New Orleans paper will offer a weekly encyclopedic post explaining culture and geography from each episode of the show …
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Can explainers be the basis for a revenue stream?  Voice of San Diego's Scott Lewis thinks so  —  You may have seen Megan's post a couple weeks ago about how lauded news nonprofit Voice of San Diego is trying to hire an “engagement editor” to help push its stories into social media and public consciousness.
Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing:
South Park's 200th, litigious celebs and Mohammed: Matt Stone and Trey Parker (BB Video)  —  Watch on YouTube. or Download MP4  —  In this Boing Boing Video exclusive, South Park co-creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker speak with Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin on the eve of the 200th episode of the hit Comedy Central series.
Bill Boyarsky / Truthdig:
The Future of Journalism Is Written in Neon  —  My search for the I.F. Stone of the 21st century took me to the campus of the University of Southern California and the highly energized office of the Web-based news operation Neon Tommy, sponsored by USC's Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism.
Discussion: Romenesko
 
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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
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Carlo Longino / Techdirt:
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Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:
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Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard:
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