Mediagazer: It's Spitz-o-phrenia! … (New York Observer)

12:30 PM ET, June 23, 2010

Top News:

It's Spitz-o-phrenia! Can the Disgraced Former Governor Really Make a Big Prime-Time Comeback? — Around 11 a.m. on the morning of Tuesday, June 15, CNN staffers convened in the newsroom on the fourth floor of the Time Warner Center to listen to the company's U.S. chief, Jonathan Klein, talk about the state of the network.

Discussion: rbr.com, The Wire, mediabistro.com, The Huffington Post, Multichannel, The Awl, blogs.tampabay.com, Romenesko, Inside Cable News and Variety

CNN:

Spitzer, Parker to host primetime CNN show — Washington (CNN) - Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and 2010 Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Kathleen Parker will co-host a new hour long CNN primetime news program starting in the fall as the nation prepares for the 2010 midterm election, the network announced Wednesday morning.

Discussion: Media Decoder, Romenesko, The Politico, TVNewser, Mediaite and Vanity Fair

Newsweek:

How ‘Rolling Stone’ Got Into McChrystal's Inner Circle — Reporter Michael Hastings explains the backstory to the piece that upended a general—and maybe even a war. — It's the kind of story that ricochets through Washington—and around the world—at lightning speed.

Discussion: The Wire, CJR, Romenesko, Guardian, The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, Politics Daily and www.thetakeaway.org

Megan Carpentier / TPM LiveWire:
How Rolling Stone Won The News Cycle And Lost The Story

Discussion: The Huffington Post, mediabistro.com, New York Observer, The Politico, www.thetakeaway.org, Romenesko and TPMDC

Greg Marx / CJR:
The Day's Big Story, Hours before It Was Published

Discussion: Guardian, The Daily Beast, www.thetakeaway.org and Washington Post

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

Discussion: Speakeasy, MediaPost, Political Punch, National Review, Mediaite, New York Times, The Huffington Post, Guardian, ABCNEWS, Most Recent Home Page Posts …, Online NewsHour, Politics Daily, Wonkette, Afghanistan Crossroads, MinnPost, The Daily Beast, Media Decoder, Tuned In, PRNewser, Ben Smith's Blog, Washington Wire, The Caucus, The Daily Dish, BBC, msnbc.com, Fast Company, World Blog, The Atlantic Online, Think Progress, www.thetakeaway.org, Telegraph, Scocca, Jay Bookman, The New Republic, ATTACKERMAN, The Plum Line, The Awl, Romenesko, Daily Kos, This Just In, Matthew Yglesias, Reuters, FishbowlNY, The Enterprise Blog, New York Times, Washington Post, Swampland, The Politico, TPMDC, Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day, Vanity Fair, Gawker, PostPartisan, CFR.org, GalleyCat, Hot Air, Mudville Gazette, At War, Big Journalism, Vast Wasteland, Talking Points Memo, New York Observer, ArtsBeat, hosted2.ap.org, CNN, Dean's World, First Draft, DailyFinance, On Media's Blog, The New Yorker Blog, The Hillman Foundation blogs, CJR, TPMMuckraker, BAGnewsNotes, Associated Press, Democracy in America, New York Magazine, Bloomberg, Chickaboomer, Indecision Forever, the Econsultancy blog, CNBC, The American Conservative, The Wire, Snarkmarket, Wall Street Journal and Yahoo! News

Robin J Phillips / BusinessJournalism.org …:

U.S. business journalists express confidence in journalism's future — Almost two-thirds of business journalists report that the amount of business coverage at their organization has stayed the same or increased in the past five years, according to a new survey commissioned …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, Romenesko and McGuire on Media

Jim / Gannett Blog:

For USAT, surprise news ushers in a long summer; Hunke's team now hunts for paper's ‘future path’ — Summer officially started yesterday, and today's forecast high in McLean, Va., home to USA Today, is a steamy 93 degrees. — But that's not the only reason working conditions have grown …

Discussion: Editors Weblog and The Wall Blog

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.

Discussion: Guardian

Natalie Harrison / Apple:

Apple Sells Three Million iPads in 80 Days — Apple® today announced that it sold its three millionth iPad™ yesterday, just 80 days after its introduction in the US. iPad is a revolutionary and magical product that allows users to connect with their apps, content and the Internet …

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, TeleRead, Fortune, Gadget Lab, Publishing Perspectives, Reuters, GalleyCat, paidContent, Fast Company, Bits, TechCrunch, L.A. Times Tech Blog, DailyFinance, Pulse2 and Babbage

Ezra Klein:

Do the news media spend too much time on news? — The graph above comes from Pew's study of the media's coverage of health-care reform, and on first blush, it makes the media look, well, not great, but not awful. There really were a lot of stories devoted to the substance of the plans.

Discussion: The Huffington Post and PewResearch.org

Melissa Grego / Broadcasting & Cable:

Ad Group Forms $10-Million Media Fund for Family Entertainment — ANA Alliance for Family Entertainment unveils plan to support scripted programming at annual symposium — The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) Alliance for Family Entertainment has formed a $10 million media fund …

Discussion: thewrap.com/column/rss/* and Variety

Ben Elowitz / Digital Quarters:

New Analysis: Old Media Magazines Losing Share Online Despite Their Great Brands — Despite their coveted value, the great brands of old media aren't proving out to be much of an asset online. And to the extent old media is relying on the value of their brands to ensure a digital future, they are headed in the wrong direction.

Discussion: Romenesko and MinOnline

People-Press.org:

Public Reacts Positively To Extensive Gulf Coverage — Limited Interest in World Cup — While the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico has accounted for an overwhelming proportion of recent news coverage, most Americans say the press is giving the right amount of attention to the still-unfolding disaster.

Discussion: Media Decoder

Bloomberg:

Hulu Said in Talks With CBS, Viacom as Paid Service Nears — Hulu LLC is in talks with CBS Corp., Viacom Inc. and Time Warner Inc. to add their television shows to the video website's planned paid subscription service, people with direct knowledge of the discussions said.

Discussion: Company Town

Rebecca / Electronic Frontier Foundation:

‘Hot News’ Doctrine Could Stifle Online Commentary and Criticism — San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the Citizen Media Law Project (CMLP), and Public Citizen Monday urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to consider the critical First Amendment questions …

Discussion: Berkman Center, Citizen Media Law Project and Search Engine Land

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Trio of bidders close in on Le Monde — French newspaper's future hangs in the balance as three separate bidders seek to buy title — The future of French newspaper Le Monde hangs in the balance as three separate bidders are reported to be closing in on the 66-year-old title.

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, Media News, The Irish Times, Reuters and Financial Times

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.

Discussion: MediaPost

John Koblin / New York Observer:
Gourmet Lives! ‘Pity’ Says Ruth Reichl

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

Dan Kennedy / Guardian:

For paid content, talk is cheap | Dan Kennedy — App aficionados say the end of the open web is nigh. But for many news sites, large and small, free is still part of the plan — There's a certain changeless quality to the endless discussion over how to pay for journalism in the internet era.

Discussion: Media Nation

John Consoli / TheWrap.com:

NFL Coming to Telemundo on Sept. 26 — The National Football League en espanol is coming to three Telemundo stations this fall as part of Hispanic Heritage Month. — The result of a unique deal between the league, NBC and its sister Hispanic network Telemundo, the Sept. 26 “Sunday Night Football” …

Discussion: MediaPost and TVWeek.com

Victoria Espinel / White House.gov Blog Feed:

Releasing the Joint Strategic Plan to Combat Intellectual Property Theft — To view this content, please download the Adobe Flash Player — I am pleased to announce that today we unveiled the Administration's first Joint Strategic Plan to combat intellectual property theft.

Discussion: Media Maverick, Techdirt, TorrentFreak, Broadcasting & Cable, PC Magazine, Threat Level and Copyrights & Campaigns

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 and thewrap.com/column/rss/*

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: thewrap.com/column/rss/*, Strupp, CJR and Romenesko

Mike Farrell / Multichannel News:

CBS: We're In The (Retrans) Money! — Network On Track To Make $100 Million In Consent Fees — New York — CBS chief financial officer Joe Ianiello made it plain at an SNL Kagan conference last week: When it comes to retransmission consent, broadcast networks are taking the cake.