Mediagazer: Dish CEO: My Kids Think I'm Crazy For Being In Pay-TV Biz (Andrew Wallenstein/paidContent)

2:35 AM ET, November 7, 2010

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Pleading Sanity — At his Rally to Restore Sanity, Jon Stewart complained about the shrieking tone of cable news. Were you watching when a montage juxtaposed footage from your news show with that of Glenn Beck's? — I saw that. I was sitting at home, with my notebooks for the election …

Discussion: Mediaite, Runnin' Scared, The Huffington Post, Inside Cable News and CNN

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Maddow Says Olbermann's Suspension Shows Difference Between MSNBC and Fox News — By suspending Keith Olbermann for contributing money to Democratic candidates, MSNBC appears to be trying to differentiate itself from the Fox News Channel, which does not discourage employees from making personal donations …

Discussion: New York Times, Hit & Run, Gothamist, SAI, Runnin' Scared, Talking Points Memo and The Wire

John Cook / Gawker:

Olbermann 'Doesn't Answer' to NBC News Standards — MSNBC chief Phil Griffin suspended Keith Olbermann today for violating “NBC News policy and standards” by donating to three Democratic congressional candidates last month. But according to an NBC News source, MSNBCers have been exempt from those rules for years.

Chris Ariens / mediabistro.com:
Will Keith Olbermann Return to MSNBC?

Discussion: The Daily Caller, BuzzMachine, Mediaite, Inside Cable News, mediabistro.com and The Huffington Post

Steve Myers / Poynter Online:

Jim Brady: Multiple, minor disagreements led to TBD resignation — Jim Brady said Friday evening that he stepped down as the head of TBD, the upstart Washington, D.C. news site, because he and Robert Allbritton, chairman and chief executive of Allbritton Communications, “had some …

Discussion: The Wire, mediabistro.com, Romenesko and Washington Post

Betsy Rothstein / mediabistro.com:

Brady Out at TBD — FishbowlDC has learned that Jim Brady, the former Washingtonpost.com editor who runs TBD, has told colleagues he's out at the new startup. Here is what we know. Brady told colleagues late today...We hear Publisher Robert Allbritton is planning to grow the company …

Discussion: Romenesko, paidContent and TBD All News

Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:

U.S. News & World Report to Become Online Only — U.S. News & World Report, the magazine that in recent years has gone from a weekly, to a semimonthly to a monthly, will no longer exist as a regularly printed publication. — The magazine's editors announced on Friday that U.S. News would become an online-only source of news.

Discussion: New York Times

Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

USN&WR: ‘December issue will be our last printed monthly sent to subscribers’ — Memo to US News & World Report employees — RE: Completing Our Shift to the Digital World — Colleagues, We're finally ready to complete our transition to a predominantly digital publishing model with selected, single-topic print issues.

Discussion: US News, Mediaite, paidContent, AdAge, New York Observer, TechCrunch, New York Magazine and MyFox Philadelphia

James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:

On the Media: 'Old media's' dilemma of charging for online content — Some experts agree that pay-to-read is an economic necessity, but the key is finding a price and billing plan that won't scare off readers. — Fred from high school e-mailed this week out of the blue, wondering why the …

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Election week wrap-up: Tuesday night traffic trends from some prominent politics websites — Among the victors emerging from Tuesday's midterm elections was digital news. On sites' homepages and politics sections across the web, interactive features, data-rich graphics …

Andrew Wallenstein / paidContent:

Dish CEO: My Kids Think I'm Crazy For Being In Pay-TV Biz — A startling admission from Charlie Ergen, CEO of Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH), on his company's Q3-earnings call capped a week of high anxiety and low expectations in the media business. — Asked to assess the pressures …

Discussion: Engadget and Broadcasting & Cable

Emma Barnett / Telegraph:

Andrew Ross Sorkin: The man behind Dealbook — Andrew Ross Sorkin, bestselling author and acclaimed New York Times business reporter, is part of a new breed of entrepreneurial journalists. He tells Emma Barnett how technology helped him ‘own’ his beat.

Discussion: Talking Biz News

Journalism.org:

PARSING ELECTION DAY MEDIA - HOW THE MIDTERMS MESSAGE VARIED BY PLATFORM — The media serve several functions when it comes to coverage of election results, whether it is the mainstream press engaged in reporting news or citizens using technology to share and participate in it.

Discussion: Romenesko