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11:20 AM ET, August 25, 2010

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Wall Street Journal:
Disney, Apple Near iTunes Deal  —  Apple is in discussions with major TV companies to offer 99-cent rentals of television episodes, according to people familiar with the situation, as the company tries to reshape the television business around its devices.  —  The Cupertino, Calif. …
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Bloomberg:
Apple Said to Prepare New 99-Cent TV Show Rental Service  —  Apple Inc. is in advanced talks with News Corp. to let iTunes users rent TV shows for 99 cents and is in discussions with other media companies about similar deals, said three people familiar with the plan.
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
CBS Evening News Ratings Tie 20-Year Low  —  For any person who believes that the American people should be paying greater attention to the war in Afghanistan, the following statistic might disappoint.  —  On a week that included the anchor Katie Couric's trip to Afghanistan, the …
Brian McDermott / Online Journalism Review:
What the ‘Ground Zero mosque’ flap says about the state of journalism  —  By Brian McDermott: The Ground Zero mosque does not exist.  —  There is, of course, the planned Park51 Muslim community center and mosque, which local authorities approved for construction on Park Place in lower Manhattan …
Discussion: Making Sense of Media
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Marc Graser / Variety:
‘Angry Birds’ flies with Hollywood  —  IPhone game eyes TV shows, movies, toys  —  The “Angry Birds” are flocking to Hollywood.  —  Rovio, the Finnish creator of the hit iPhone and iPad game, which has sold more than 6.5 million downloads, wants to turn the property into a major franchise …
Joe Strupp / Media Matters for America:
Former White House Correspondents President Chen: Fox News Seating ‘A Travesty’  —  Allowing Fox News to move up to the first row in the White House briefing room was a “travesty of a decision,” according to Ed Chen, the former White House Correspondents Association president who left that post just a few months ago.
Discussion: Mediaite and The Huffington Post
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Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:
Why Media Matters Should Stop Picking on Fox News (This Time)
Discussion: Mediaite and On Media's Blog
Keach Hagey / The Politico:
New life for Washington Times  —  The owner of the Washington Times entered into an agreement Tuesday to sell the paper to another entity affiliated with its parent, the Unification Church, which would return funding to the cash-strapped conservative publication, POLITICO has learned.
John Cook / Yahoo! News:
What does News Corp. want in return for that $1 million?  —  Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. raised eyebrows last week with a $1 million donation to the Republican Governors Association that the New York Times described as “bold” and “one of the biggest [contributions] ever given by a media organization.”
Tom Bissell / New York Observer:
From Tragedy to Trend Story: In Defense of Virginia Quarterly Review Editor Ted Genoways  —  On July 30, Kevin Morrissey, the managing editor of The Virginia Quarterly Review, one of America's most respected and ascendant literary journals, took his own life, apparently unable to abide the pressures of his job.
Discussion: The Wrap
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Random House Wins Battle for E-Book Rights  —  An e-book battle between Random House and the Wylie Agency appears to have ended.  —  After a monthlong standoff, Random House said on Tuesday that it now held the rights to publish e-book editions of 13 classic books that the literary agent Andrew Wylie …
Discussion: Electronista
Wall Street Journal:
The ABCs of E-Reading  —  New Devices Are Changing Habits.  People Are Reading More, Even While in a Kayak  —  People who buy e-readers tend to spend more time than ever with their nose in a book, preliminary research shows.  —  A study of 1,200 e-reader owners by Marketing …
Daniel B. Roberts / Salon:
Tao Lin: Lit “it boy” for the Internet age  —  Tao Lin gets arrested in a bookstore.  He lets fans buy shares of his book.  Meet literature's Net-savvy new star  —  Tao Lin is the next big thing in urban hipster lit.  At least, so say the people that read his books on the subway.
Discussion: New York Observer
Mel Campbell / Crikey:
What is excellence in online journalism?  —  Like many journalists, I crave external validation, so the other day I was idly browsing the Walkley Awards website and fantasising about entering.  —  Since I write largely for online media, I gravitated to the online category …
Vinicius Vacanti / Yipit Blog:
The Ultimate Guide: How Media Companies Should Offer Daily Deals  —  UPDATE 8/25: This piece was re-published on Business Insider.  —  Groupon launched less than two years ago, and is on pace to make $300 to $500 million in revenue this year.  How?  They simply went out and created …
Lara Sinclair / TheAustralian:
Newspapers gone by 2022 says futurist  —  NEWSPAPERS as we know them will be irrelevant within 12 years, according to futurist Ross Dawson, who said journalism would be largely ‘crowdsourced’.  —  Mr Dawson, who will address a Newspaper Publishers' Association forum on the future of the industry …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
NYT Blogger and New Author Nick Bilton Talks About the Future (Where He Apparently Lives)  —  Yesterday, BoomTown headed on down to the metalish-tube-clad HQ of the New York Times (NYT) to pay a visit on “Bits” head blogger Nick Bilton.  —  Bilton, who is one of the few tech reporters with programming cred …
Discussion: eMedia Vitals and PSFK
 
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