Mediagazer: The Runaway General — Stanley McChrystal, Obama's top commander … (Michael Hastings/Rolling Stone)

7:55 PM ET, June 22, 2010

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Megan Carpentier / TPM LiveWire:

How Rolling Stone Won The News Cycle And Lost The Story — In a multi-platform, multimedia environment, it's difficult for a magazine to break the kind of news that will lead every cable broadcast, every newspaper and every website for hours on end. But that's what the Rolling Stone profile …

Discussion: New York Observer and TPMDC

Michael Hastings / Rolling Stone:

The Runaway General — Stanley McChrystal, Obama's top commander in Afghanistan, has seized control of the war by never taking his eye off the real enemy: The wimps in the White House — 'How'd I get screwed into going to this dinner?" demands Gen. Stanley McChrystal.

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Ernesto Londoño / Washington Post:

Civilian press aide resigns amid flap over McChrystal's ‘Rolling Stone’ profile — KABUL — Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal's civilian press aide resigned Tuesday over an upcoming magazine story that portrayed the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan and some of his aides as derisive toward Obama administration officials.

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Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:

McChrystal scoop goes viral before Rolling Stone publishes — On Tuesday morning, Rolling Stone's explosive profile of Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal dominated the news cycle. McChrystal's dismissive remarks about President Obama and some senior White House figures are still leading …

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Greg Marx / CJR:

The Day's Big Story, Hours before It Was Published — Eric Bates had an unusual start to his day Tuesday. — Bates is the executive editor of Rolling Stone, and his magazine was about to publish a big story outlining, with plenty of juicy quotes and telling details, the disdain …

Discussion: This Just In, The Huffington Post, The Atlantic Wire and PostPartisan

John Koblin / New York Observer:

Gourmet Lives! ‘Pity’ Says Ruth Reichl — Conde Nast is bringing Gourmet back in the form of an app. — It's an experiment for Conde Nast: They'll take a magazine they folded (because they said it lost too much money) and replace the printed product and the employees they laid off there with a big internet community.

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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

Conde Nast to Revive Shuttered Mag Gourmet as Mobile App — CEO Townsend Sees Digital Potential for Domino, Another Victim of the Downturn — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Conde Nast found something to do with one of the magazine brands thrown on the scrap-heap during the recession: turn it into a mobile app.

paidContent:

Music Labels Tell Google To Remove Infringing Links — By Sean Michaels: Britain's biggest recording industry association, the BPI, has sent a cease-and-desist order to Google (NSDQ: GOOG), asking the search engine to take down links to nine “one-click hosting” sites, each of which hosts thousands of illegal songs.

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Scott Morrison / Wall Street Journal:
Google Plans Music Service Tied to Search Engine

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Sakthi Prasad / Reuters:

Google, Twitter go to bat for Theflyonthewall — Theflyonthewall.com posted headlines from research reports and press releases on its website, often before banks could share their recommendations with their clients. — In March, U.S. District Judge Denise Cote said Theflyonthewall.com engaged in …

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Alex Weprin / WebNewser:

Internet a Key Point of Opposition to Comcast-NBCU Deal — Yesterday was the last day to file comments on the proposed Comcast-NBC Universal merger, and a number of individuals and companies weighed in. — Among those filing comments in opposition to the deal were Senator Al Franken (D-MN) …

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David Lieberman / USA Today: Comcast concessions smooth way for NBC Universal deal

Vadim Lavrusik / Mashable!:

Newspapers Are Still Dying, But the News Is Not Going Anywhere — Despite newspaper share prices seeing a 380% increase in the last year, don't be swayed by the perceived recovery. The only way for newspapers to survive is by investing resources into innovation online.

The Wall Blog:

LA Times launches $1.99 iPhone app - USA holds off charging for iPad — by @gordonmacmillan, posted on 22 June, 2010 at 8:37 am, filed under Apps, Media Owners, Mobile and tagged Apple iPad, Apple iPhone, The Los Angeles Times, usa today. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.

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Zeke Turner / New York Observer:

Ramin Setoodeh is Leaving Newsweek for People — Here's yet another departure from Newsweek: Ramin Setoodeh, the Newsweek writer behind the magazine's piece about gay actors in straight roles, is leaving to join People magazine. — Mr. Setoodeh will start as a senior writer on People's news …

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Jay Rosen / PressThink:

Fixing The Ideology Problem in Our Political Press: A Reply to The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder — “If your job is to make the case, win the negotiations, decide what the community should do, or maintain morale, that is one kind of work. If your job is to tell people what's going on …

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Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

C-SPAN Crosses 100 Million Subscriber Mark — C-SPAN has crossed one of the most significant milestones for cable networks: the channel is now available in more than 100 million homes. — The 100 million subscriber club is a very small group, with the National Cable & Telecommunications …

Choire / The Awl:

New Advertising Lessons from the Gay Media — Looking through the math on the “Annual Gay Press Report” [PDF], which samples gay publications each April, there's some really inexplicable facts. There were 24% fewer issues of gay magazines published from 2008 to 2009.

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Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:

New York Times' new public editor pledges to bring outsider's perspective — Veteran journalist Arthur Brisbane, who's been named the New York Times' next public editor, believes that his experience on both the business and editorial sides of newspapers will help him as in-house critic of the paper's coverage.

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Chris Dale / YouTube Blog:

WWE lays smackdown on YouTube community with full-length, catch-up episodes — Wrestling fans, have we got a body-slam of an announcement for you. Today, we're announcing a new partnership with the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) that will bring full-length episodes of Friday Night Smackdown …

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CNN:

CNN Expands Blog Network with Launch of Eatocracy — Passionate Community, Global Coverage, Novel Features Baked into New Food Blog — CNN.com today announced the launch of Eatocracy, a blog created to feed the minds, hearts and stomachs of food fanatics across the world.

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Why Amazon's Kindle Will Eventually Win the e-Book Wars — To paraphrase Yoda: Begun, the e-book wars have. — Barnes & Noble started the week off by cutting prices on its Nook e-book reader to $199 from $259, while also introducing a new, $149 Wi-Fi model.

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Dan Rayburn / The Business Of Online Video:

Data From Q1 Shows Video CDN Pricing Stabilizing, Down 25% In 2010 — Last month, at the Content Delivery Summit, I presented my latest pricing data from Q1 for video delivery services amongst the major content delivery networks and had the chance to meet with dozens of large content owners in the M&E space.

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Crain's Manchester Business:

Crain Communications closes Crain's Manchester Business — Business publisher Crain Communications Inc today announced the closing of Crain's Manchester Business, the first local weekly business journal to be published in the United Kingdom. Circulation of the publication …

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Erica Ogg / CNET News:

Sears, Kmart to offer streaming movie service — Here's how you know streaming video has gone mainstream: when mass market retailers are getting in on the game. — Scheduled for a holiday release is a new digital video service that will be available on TVs and Blu-ray players sold at Sears and Kmart.

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Zeke Turner / New York Observer:

Move Over James Truman! Stefano Tonchi is Fixing Up 'W's New Office … In a few short months, W magazine will be moving out of the Fairchild ghetto on Third Avenue and into space on the 19th floor of the Condé Nast building at 1166 Sixth Avenue, Stefano Tonchi told The Observer this afternoon.