Mediagazer: Library of Congress, Facing Privacy Concerns, Clarifies Twitter Archive Plan (Marc Parry/Chronicle of Higher Education)

2:40 PM ET, May 9, 2010

Top News:

They Don't Report. You Don't Have to Decide. — “DESPITE the major environmental disaster unfolding in the Gulf and the attempted terror attack on New York's Times Square, President Obama spent his Saturday night laughing it up at the White House Correspondents Dinner,” griped Sean Hannity of Fox News last week.

Discussion: Soup

Rachel Sklar / Mediaite:
From “Lone Wolf” to Taliban: The Disconnect In The Developing …

Discussion: Chickaboomer, The Daily Beast, Soup and On The Media

Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:

Media Moves: Gawker's Newest Hire Poached from The Daily Beast — The Gawker masthead's been pretty busy in the last few months, and they haven't even had any of their doors kicked in! It's about to see a little more action, though, as they've now added another name to their editorial team.

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Marc Parry / Chronicle of Higher Education:

Library of Congress, Facing Privacy Concerns, Clarifies Twitter Archive Plan — If you don't want that tipsy 3 a.m. Twitter post preserved for posterity, then start deleting. Now. — Faced with privacy concerns, the Library of Congress is clarifying its plans to archive …

TechCrunch:

Why Media Companies Should Become More Like Merchants — Editor's note: Should media sites become group buying sites as well? Guest author Dave Chase thinks so. He was a marketing executive and general manager at Microsoft in the 90's including starting Microsoft's healthcare business.

Steven Zeitchik / Los Angeles Times:

Short films can be a shortcut to Hollywood success — More and more, big-name directors and producers are thinking small. — ‘Alma’: Top producers are interested in expanding the animated short. (Rodrigo Blaas) — When Barbara and Andres Muschietti, two television-commercial veterans …

Robert Niles / Online Journalism Review:

Is it time for news websites to stop using Flash? — By Robert Niles: Like many tech-geek online journalists, I've been spending more time with my iPhone in recent months. I use the phone's Web browser to update my various sites from wherever I am on the road, or even around the house.

Dru / Current: Public Media:

Robert Siegel left his head and his heart on the dance floor — We don't want to spoil this video for you, so all we'll say is you'll go gaga over this one from NPR. Robert Siegel is definitely a highlight, but we like those “Directors” too. Stay tuned to the Current blog …

Discussion: Above the Law and Romenesko

Liesl Schillinger / New York Times:

Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough: The Odd-Couple Hosts of ‘Morning Joe’: — LAST week on the north lawn of the White House, the morning after the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski held court on the grass, presiding over a special Sunday edition …

Discussion: TVNewser, Chickaboomer, Inside Cable News and Mediaite

The Wrap:

NBCU to Sell KWHY-TV as Comcast Deal Advances — NBCU has agreed to sell one of its three Los Angeles TV stations before going ahead with its deal with Comcast. — Besides owning KNBC-TV, NBCU owns independent KWHY-TV and Telemundo station KVEA-TV. It is the independent station, KWHY-TV that will be sold.

Mike Vilensky / New York Magazine:

Real Housewives' Sonja Morgan: 'Bravo Told Me, Don't Read the Blogs' — It is always sort of jarring to see a Real Housewife out in the wild, but that's what happened to us again last night at the preview party for Richard Meir and Nic Berggruen's new apartment complex in Tel Aviv.

Discussion: Fimoculous.com

Steve Herrmann / The Editors:

A new record — As post-election events continue to unfold, we've just got some preliminary figures in for traffic to the BBC News website across the whole of yesterday, Friday 7 May. So, according to the data we have in so far: — We had 11.4m individual users to the BBC News website on Friday …

Peter Sciretta / /Film:

Avi Arad Developing Pac-Man Movie? — Producer Avi Arad has will be on hand at Namco's 30th birthday for Pac-Man on June 15th (during E3) “to make an announcement about the worldwide premiere of his newest Pac-Man project.” Of couse, “Pac-Man project” doesn't necessarily mean big screen movie, but what else could it be?