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11:35 AM ET, July 22, 2010

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New York Times:
Faster Than a Speeding Blog  —  The Obama administration has been shamed by its rush to judgment after it forced the resignation of a black midlevel official in the Agriculture Department who was wrongly accused of racism by the right-wing blogosphere.  Shirley Sherrod was sandbagged …
Discussion: Show Tracker, CJR and New York Times
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Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Gibbs criticism of Sherrod media coverage puts cap on frantic 48 hours  —  Press Secretary Robert Gibbs acknowledged the administration's rush to judgment after hearing just a snippet of Shirley Sherrod's remarks before an NAACP audience.  He says the media made a similar mistake.
David Frum / The Week Magazine:
Shirley Sherrod and the shame of conservative media
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Couric's Future Questioned at CBS  —  This past spring, CBS News president Sean McManus and executive vice-president Paul Friedman discussed how to bring an end to what may be the last great experiment in network news: Katie Couric, anchorwoman.  Though her reported $15 million annual contract …
MediaShift:
Writers Explain What It's Like Toiling on the Content Farm  —  “We are going to be the largest net hirer of journalists in the world next year,” AOL's media and studios division president David Eun said last month in an interview with Michael Learmonth of Ad Age.
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Reinventing the Newsroom:
Algorithms Aren't Evil  —  Recently I've been quoted a fair amount …
Discussion: Romenesko and The Biz Blog
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
‘As The World Turns’ Replaced By Chat Show Featuring Julie Chen  —  CBS has ordered a daily daytime talk show that will replace the soap opera “As The World Turns” in the fall.  —  The concept is being called a variation of ABC's popular talk show “The View,” but with five moms meeting around the table.
Felix Salmon:
Kneale, craven  —  You won't find many defenders of Dennis Kneale's philosophy of journalism on Twitter or even among his colleagues in the CNBC studio.  —  I spent a large chunk of this afternoon debating Kneale on Twitter, and for a while afterwards I thought that time was wasted …
Discussion: CJR, CNBC, Talking Biz News and AOL
Peter Robins / Guardian:
The Times paywall won't be built in a day  —  Rupert Murdoch's new fan club should not lose heart yet.  Charging for content at the Times and the Sunday Times is a long-term project - at least, it ought to be  —  An awful lot of British journalists were hoping that the Times and Sunday Times's paywalls would be an overnight success.
Don Ohlmeyer / ESPN:
The ‘Decision’ dilemma  —  By ceding control to Team LeBron, ESPN raised ethical issues, damaged its credibility  —  It was billed without irony as “The Decision.”  But for those who thought ESPN could agree to televise live LeBron James' announcement that he was leaving the Cleveland Cavaliers …
Discussion: Speakeasy, Romenesko and The Wire
Jolie O'Dell / jolieodell.wordpress.com:
HOW TO TELL A JOURNALIST FROM A BLOGGER  —  I only touched on this subject briefly: … The aftermath of that post suggests I definitely need to outline what makes a journalist a journalist.  —  You see, it doesn't really matter what medium you use.  You can be a print journalist …
Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …
Paul Verna / eMarketer and Blog Posts:
As the E-Book World Blossoms, Is There Room for Both the iPad and the Kindle?  —  We all knew this day would come but it arrived sooner than some of us had expected.  On July 19, Amazon announced it had sold more e-books than hardcover books over the past three months.
Discussion: Kindle Review and ResourceShelf
Bloomberg:
Comcast, GE Boost Spending as U.S. Considers NBC Deal (Correct)  —  Comcast Corp., the largest U.S. cable provider, boosted spending on political donations and lobbying as it sought approval to take over the operations of General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal.
Discussion: MediaPost
Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
Vivi Nevo Revealed: ‘Attention of a Hummingbird on Crack’  —  Vivi Nevo, that international man of mystery, surfaced yet again at the Sun Valley mogul confab held by Herb Allen.  —  For a couple of years I've been among those trying to figure out who Nevo is, and why he enjoys the intimate status he apparently does among media moguls.
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Meet the New Journolist, Smaller Than the Old Journolist  —  Blogosphere, please join me in celebrating the birth of Cabalist, the wittily-named successor to Ezra Klein's infamous Journolist, the listserv of liberal bloggers, pundits and academics that inadvertently brought down (very temporarily) …
MediaPost:
Buzzmedia Teams With ONTD  —  Buzzmedia, which runs some 40 niche gossip and entertainment sites, has struck a marketing deal with Oh No They Didn't!  (ONTD!), the most popular community on LiveJournal.  Through the partnership, the ONTD site will be revamped later this month …
Karen / Current: Public Media:
MPB fires reporter for leaking Fresh Air memo  —  There's one more voice that's off the air of Mississippi Public Broadcasting following the state network's cancellation of Fresh Air.  —  Carl Gibson, whose first job out of journalism school was covering the state capitol for MPB …
Discussion: Romenesko and Gawker
 
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Adweek:
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