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8:45 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.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, The Politico, Media Decoder, The Daily Dish, Mediaite, ATTACKERMAN, Romenesko, This Just In, The Awl, On Media's Blog, New York Times, Washington Post, Swampland, Hot Air, Gawker, BAGnewsNotes, At War, PostPartisan, Political Punch, The New Yorker Blog, Mudville Gazette, Dean's World, BBC, Politics Daily, newsfeed.time.com, AOL, The Atlantic Online, The Wire, The Daily Beast, CJR, PRNewser, TPMDC, Snarkmarket, Vanity Fair, Democracy in America, Washington Wire, CFR.org, DailyFinance, Wonkette, Most Recent Home Page Posts …, Talking Points Memo, Guardian, the Econsultancy blog, Indecision Forever, Online NewsHour, Firedoglake, ABCNEWS, Big Journalism, The Hillman Foundation blogs, Vast Wasteland, Matthew Yglesias, Ben Smith's Blog, hosted2.ap.org, The Daily Caller, First Draft, Afghanistan Crossroads, Strupp, Daily Kos, TPMMuckraker, CNBC, New York Magazine, New York Observer, msnbc.com, Chickaboomer, The Hill, The American Conservative, Reuters and Wall Street Journal

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.

Discussion: msnbc.com, Mediaite, PostPartisan, Romenesko, The Huffington Post, CJR, At War, The Atlantic Online, TPMDC, The Daily Beast, Politics Daily and AOL

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 …

Discussion: www.thetakeaway.org, The Atlantic Online, The Politico, The Huffington Post, Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day, Romenesko, Telegraph, At War, TPMDC, The Awl and CJR

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.

Discussion: Romenesko, MediaMemo, Bits, MediaPost, The Wire, Crain's New York Business, the Econsultancy blog, MediaFile, Gawker, Mediaite, minonline.com, The Huffington Post and NYConvergence

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.

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.

Discussion: TechCrunch, Nieman Journalism Lab, Gannett Blog, L.A. Times Tech Blog, eMedia Vitals, AdAge, FishbowlNY, WebNewser and Mobile Media

Ed Padgett / edpadgett.blogspot.com:

Los Angeles Times Suspends Pressman Blogger … The Pressman Blogger was suspended this afternoon from the Los Angeles Times, with possible termination following an investigation by a biased jury, for blogging the events of last Thursday and Friday at the Los Angeles Times Olympic Production Facility.

Discussion: LA Observed

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.

Discussion: Guardian, Softpedia News, TorrentFreak, The Next Web, PlagiarismToday, Download Squad, hypebot, Pulse2, MediaPost, Billboard.Biz and Techdirt

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

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, MediaMemo, Telegraph, Mashable!, The Consumerist and MediaPost Raw, more at Techmeme »

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) …

Discussion: NewTeeVee, rbr.com and TVNewser

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

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 …

Discussion: Globe and Mail, Bloomberg, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Search Engine Land, Inquirer, Techdirt and Talking Biz News

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.

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 …

Discussion: The Wire, New York Magazine, Movieline, The Huffington Post and Jezebel

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.

Discussion: New York Magazine

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.

Discussion: CJR, Romenesko and Strupp

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 …

Discussion: WebNewser, The Next Web, TechCrunch, paidContent and Search Engine Watch

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.

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Knight News Challenge: CitySeed's mobile app wants to grow some fresh community engagement — Have you ever come across an overgrown lot in your neighborhood — and wondered what it might become? Have you thought, “You know, that could make a great playground” — or “Hey, why don't we make that into a community garden”?

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 …

Discussion: The Atlantic Online

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.

Discussion: The Consumerist

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Knight News Challenge: NowSpots wants to help publishers sell and serve “local ads that actually work” — One thing we've learned about online advertising, says Brad Flora, founder and president of Chicago's Windy Citizen: “Banner ads suck.” Big time. “They're static, they're boring …

Discussion: MediaShift Idea Lab