Mediagazer: Who Smeared Dave Weigel? (Foster Kamer/Runnin' Scared)

4:25 AM ET, June 27, 2010

Top News:

Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:

The Sad, Bulls**t Story of Washington Post Blogger Dave Weigel's Resignation — The Sad Story of Dave Weigel's Resignation — Anti-Gay Activists Outed by Supreme Court — The Plight of the Single... Eligible Bachelor Alert: Prince Harry Hits NYC — By Jen Doll — Second Chances

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, Pursuing the Complete …, The Politico, The Huffington Post, http://www.fosterkamer.com/ and Ben Smith's Blog

Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:

Who Smeared Dave Weigel? — Yesterday afternoon, The Washington Post's conservative blogger, Dave Weigel, resigned. This was following the leak of some emails detailing his personal political views to a DC hack-gossip named Betsy Rothstein and bowtied blowhard Tucker Carlson's website, The Daily Caller.

Discussion: Ombudsman Blog, Roger Ailes, FishbowlDC and Washington Post

Ross Douthat:

The Shame of JournoList — When the intra-liberal e-mail round-robin known as JournoList first attracted attention early last year, it seemed significant primarily as a milestone in the emergence of a kind of “movement liberal” mentality among certain media personalities — a team-player spirit …

Discussion: Hot Air, Liz Mair, The Atlantic Online, Mediaite and Ezra Klein

Julian Sanchez / The Atlantic Online:

Weigel, WaPo, and the Tracy-Flickization of Public Life — Like Megan and most of my fellow guestbloggers, I'm fortunate to count Dave Weigel—until this morning a blogger covering the conservative movement for the Washington Post—as a friend. Insofar as that probably renders real objectivity impossible …

Discussion: BuzzMachine, Venture Chronicles, Vanity Fair, Yahoo! News, The New Republic, Big Journalism, Hot Air and Salon

Greenville News:

A new business model for our journalism — Beginning July 1, we will introduce a new model for our subscribers to access and pay for our valuable content. This new model reflects the advancements being made in the electronic world and the resulting redefinition of our news and information service.

MediaShift:

Magazine Writers Are Slow to Take Up Multimedia — An ideal pitch for a magazine story today would seem to require great possibilities for text and for multimedia. Freelance magazine writers, one would think, would be honing their multimedia skills so they could pitch well-rounded stories …

Judith Thurman / The New Yorker Blog:

Debenedetti Confesses! — Last April, in a Talk of the Town piece, I broke the story of a literary hoax perpetrated by an Italian freelancer, Tommaso Debenedetti, who, it transpired, had published interviews invented from whole cloth with Philip Roth and John Grisham.

Discussion: The Book Bench

Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:

News Corp. unloads Beliefnet — Website carried religious, spiritual content — News Corp. said Friday it has sold Beliefnet, a website it purchased three years ago that caters to a community seeking spiritual content based on a large number of religions and even atheism.

Meghan Keane / Capital New York:

AOL's Armstrong, ‘Content King,’ wears heavy crown — AOL turned 25 this Spring. To celebrate, the internet giant has been throwing a series of diverse events. In New York at the end of May, AOL's pop culture blog Urlesque threw a party on the Lower East Side at local bar Sweet and Vicious.

Discussion: news i/o

Peter Lauria / The Daily Beast:

Has Perez Lost His Touch? — Blogs and Stories — Just a year ago, the Perez Hilton brand was expanding—to a fashion site, a record label, and TV opportunities. But his first two music acts have tanked. Is his influence fading? — In the profile picture on his personal Facebook page …

New York Post:

Ex-Newsday editor Mancini makes tracks for NY1 — HOPEFULLY, someone gave former Newsday Editor-in-Chief John Mancini a new pair of running shoes for Father's Day. — He has joined NY1, the Time Warner-owned cable station, as its new on-air correspondent covering transit.

Discussion: FishbowlNY and Romenesko