Mediagazer: Blogging And Mass Psychomanipulation (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

4:00 PM ET, September 6, 2010

Top News:

Paul Carr / TechCrunch:

Rollover Minutes: How Adam Penenberg Has Legitimised New, New, New Journalism. Again. — Adam Penenberg. If you call yourself an online journalist, and yet that name doesn't immediately prompt a nod of recognition - a smile, even - then it's time to close your laptop and bow your head in shame.

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, TeleRead and Fast Company

Guardian:

MPs seek fresh inquiry into NoW phone hacking — • Calls for parliament to order second inquiry into hacking — • Scotland Yard to examine allegations by former NoW reporter — News International and David Cameron's PR chief, Andy Coulson, face the prospect of a fresh parliamentary inquiry …

Discussion: BBC, Press Gazette, Journalism.co.uk, Newser, The Independent, Editors Weblog, The Dispatch Box, The Staggers, Independent.ie, Daily Mail, Reuters, Financial Times, Jon Slattery, Bagehot's notebook and Liberal Conspiracy

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

Some Newspapers Shift Coverage After Tracking Readers Online — In most businesses, not knowing how well a particular product is performing would be almost unthinkable. But newspapers have always been a peculiar business, one that has stubbornly, proudly clung to a sense that focusing …

Discussion: Editors Weblog, Kirk LaPointe's …, The Huffington Post and College Media Matters

Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:

New York Observer to Cast Its Net Beyond the Upper East Side — Listening to Kyle Pope, the editor of The New York Observer, discuss how he wants to re-energize his newspaper sounds a lot like someone describing a Broadway show or a television series that has run a little past its prime.

Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:

Wetpaint Goes Pro With 15 New Sites On TV Shows — Wetpaint, which is best known for its user-generated fan sites, is making a big move into more premium content, with the launch of 15 new, professionally-produced sites dedicated to TV shows like Glee and Dancing With The Stars.

Discussion: TechCrunch

Michael Wolff / Guardian:

UK libel rules: Change the goddam law — Rupert Murdoch's biographer on the hefty legal challenges he faced when his book encountered British lawyers — One of the most confounding experiences a British visitor might have in the US is getting seriously sick without health insurance.

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

Regulating sex and speech — Let me start with a disclosure: I hope to think that Craig Newmark is a friend. He can be as hard for me to read as James Joyce or C++. But I know him as a decent and genuine man who believes that he is bringing a service to millions of people …

Discussion: New York Times, Venture Chronicles, Gawker, PC World, CNN and Advocate, more at Techmeme »

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Blogging And Mass Psychomanipulation — If I ever write another book it will probably be about one of three topics. The first is the truth about how the press and journalism really works - the sausage making - to show just how much of a beautiful, subjective and chaotic mess it all is.

Discussion: SocialTimes.com, Change The Ratio and SmoothSpan Blog

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

The newswire quandary — Questions: should newswire agencies serve consumers - directly? And, to a broader extent, how does the current information shift impact the agencies' future? Two recent events lead me to explore these questions in today's Monday Note.

Discussion: Editors Weblog

Alexandra Topping / Guardian:

Twitter power: how social networking is revolutionising the music business — A&R men and other traditional insiders bypassed as new sites connect artists directly to fans — In decades gone by, misunderstood teens with questionable personal hygiene would gather in cramped independent record stores …

Kristy Dorsey / Scotsman:

Interview: Jeremy Darroch, chief executive of BSkyB — Jeremy Darroch is a man with a lot on his plate, ranging from the array of technological developments in broadcasting to the possibility of a takeover. Then there are the seemingly endless battles with the regulators.

Discussion: allmediascotland.com Spike

Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:

FT Launching Seventh Niche Paid Site To Reduce Advertising Reliance — The Financial Times is increasingly launching specialist spin-off sites targeted at niche audiences of financial professionals. — The latest is SchemeXpert.com, a news and analysis site covering the pensions sector.