Mediagazer: Why Treasury briefings are off the record (Felix Salmon)

New York Times:

Facebook Feeling Unfriendly Toward ‘Social Network’ — LOS ANGELES — At the New York Film Festival next month, Hollywood will unleash “The Social Network,” a biting tale of the Silicon Valley giant Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg. — Now Facebook must decide whether to bite back.

The 48th New York Film Festival:

Film Comment September/October 2010: Revenge of the Nerd — The misanthropic soul at the heart of The Social Network, David Fincher's 21st-century moral tale — It was E.M. Forster, of course, who scripted that immortal, oft-abbreviated imperative: “Only connect, and the beast and the monk …

Discussion: The Playlist, The Wrap, Runnin' Scared, ScreenCrave.com, MTV Movies Blog, The Middletown Press and Awards Daily's Oscar Countdown

Michael Shain / New York Post:

Not so fast — CNN is asking Larry King to postpone his final show — slated for fall — and stick around until the end of the year, The Post has learned. — British journalist and “America's Got Talent” judge Piers Morgan, who is widely thought to be King's replacement …

Discussion: The Wrap, New York Magazine, Mediaite, Inside Cable News, Guardian, TV Squad, TVNewser, MediaPost, The Wire, The Huffington Post, Gawker and Chickaboomer

Virginia Heffernan / New York Times:

What ‘Fact-Checking’ Means Online — The day I became a fact-checker at The New Yorker, I received one set of red pencils and one set of No. 2 pencils. [FC: There used to be a training period before the pencils.] [[VH: O.K. for “the day I became a fact-checker” to designate end of training period?]]

Discussion: Romenesko and CJR

Gwen Ifill / Online NewsHour:

Unplanned Aberration: How Mosque Discussion Got Derailed — If the camera had continued rolling Monday night at the NewsHour after I completed a segment on the debate over the so-called Ground Zero mosque, you would have seen me beating my head against the anchor desk.

Discussion: TVNewser, On Media's Blog and Yahoo! News

Discussion: New York Times, Newsbook, Most Recent Home Page Posts …, New York Observer, The Daily Politics, The Daily Caller and Salon

Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:

The Dumbest How-to Content From Demand Media — Do you know how to brush your teeth? How to buy beer? How to poison a gopher? How to belch? If so, you could be a contributor to Demand Media, one of a growing number of “content farms” that use large networks of freelancers to produce cheap reference content.

Discussion: The Wire, City Room and Romenesko

Liz Shannon Miller / NewTeeVee:

Auto-Tune the News Hits the Billboard Top 100 — Online video stars The Gregory Brothers continue making strides towards world domination. Their latest hit Auto-Tune the News single, Bed Intruder, debuted at number 89 on the Billboard Hot 100 today. — Billboard uses a number …

Discussion: Softpedia News, PSFK, Techdirt, Trends in the Living Networks, Hit & Run, All Things Digital, The Lede, Gawker and Billboard.com The Feed

Sarah Rabil / Bloomberg:

Yahoo May Buy a Stake in Hulu Video Site, Stifel Nicolaus Says — Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) — Yahoo! Inc. may buy a “considerable” stake in Hulu LLC if the video website pursues an initial public offering, according to Stifel Nicolaus & Co. — Hulu, owned by three of the biggest U.S. broadcast networks …

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Should We Be Interested In ‘Saving’ Any Industry? — We hear it all the time, whenever anyone talks about an industry being “destroyed” by new technologies: “how do we save x industry?” where “x” can stand for “recording” or “news” or “movies” or whatever. We saw it just recently …

Dave Levy / State of the Fourth Estate:

Paywall Gets Added to the Oxford Dictionary of English (and Bromance, too) — Great news: the newest round of “words added to the dictionary” has surfaced. There are some choice additions this time around (are you telling me Chill Pill is only getting added now.

Felix Salmon:

Why Treasury briefings are off the record — Shahien Nasiripour has some excellent detailed notes from the Treasury blogger meeting. And he doesn't hesitate to call out the senior official when doing so is warranted: … Meanwhile, Matt Yglesias wishes that the meeting had been on the record:

Discussion: Firedoglake

Tom Keogh / Seattle Times:

‘This American Life’ host Ira Glass brings his radio stories to Seattle — It's a Monday morning and, no doubt all over the U.S., people have returned to work to find unexpected crises awaiting them. — Ira Glass, host and producer of public radio's immensely popular “This American Life” program, certainly has his share.

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Industry Insiders Say Online Video Advertising Is Reaching A “Frenzy Point” — With the flood, comes the feast. Advertising dollars are pouring into online video. Some of the largest online video ad networks are seeing revenue growth accelerating this quarter, and expect the fourth quarter to be even bigger.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter Online:

Chat Replay: Why Do We Need Female Journalists with Technical Expertise? — When reading my list of 20 South by Southwest Interactive panels that journalists should vote for, some people wondered: Where are all the women? Only two of the 20 panelists I mentioned are women.

Chicago Sun Times:

Tribune Co. says bankruptcy negotiations have failed — Staff and Wire Reports — The Tribune Co.'s plan to emerge from bankruptcy has unraveled in the wake of an independent report concluding that talks leading up to the company's 2007 leveraged buyout bordered on fraud, attorneys said Friday.

Discussion: LA Observed

Lucia Moses / Mediaweek:

Elle to Launch Customizable iPad App — Hachette Filipacchi Media's Elle won't be the first of the big fashion monthlies to come out with its own app for the iPad when it launches with its October issue in mid-September (Condé Nast's Glamour beat it by a month, having launched with its September issue).

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Latoya Peterson / Poynter Online:

Humorous News ‘Warning Labels’ Hint at Serious Challenges for Media — Last week, Boing Boing, the popular technology and culture blog, trained its spotlight on a hilarious and painful project by British comedian Tom Scott. He created a set of printable warning labels meant to alert consumers …

Discussion: Strupp

Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:

Studios Giving Up on DVD, Pushing VOD Instead — The time lag between DVD release dates and the availability of films on cable video-on-demand services has been drastically reduced over the past year, falling to just five days in the first half of this year, according to BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield.

Pew Social & Demographic Trends:

The Fading Glory of the Television and Telephone — One day you're the brightest star in the galaxy. Then something new comes along — and suddenly you're a relic. It's a turn of fate that awaits sports heroes, movie stars, political leaders. And, yes, even household appliances.

Discussion: TechCrunch and Economix, more at Techmeme »

Andrew Adam Newman / New York Times:

Now Playing: A Short Film Starring Branded Content — IN “Charley,” a nine-minute film by Dee Austin Robertson, a young couple visiting New York for a romantic weekend, Courtney and Ryan (played by Alexia Rasmussen and Brian McElhaney), are first seen through a glass door with an Ace Hotel sign painted on it.

Discussion: AdPulp

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Disney, TWC talks escalate — Negotiations between Walt Disney Co. and Time Warner Cable over continued carriage of ESPN, ABC and other Disney channels are intensifying as both companies gird for battle. — ESPN President George Bodenheimer and Sean Bratches, the sports network's head …

Discussion: Light Reading and Company Town

Dirk Smillie / Forbes:

The Highest-Paid Authors — Times may be tough for book sellers, but for Stephen King, James Patterson and Stephenie Meyer, the money keeps rolling in. — Publishers are feeling the heat, with hardcover sales weak and the rise of e-books promising to upend their business models.

Discussion: Ministry of Gossip, ArtsBeat, The Second Pass, New York Magazine, New York Observer and ResourceShelf