Mediagazer: Keith Olbermann Slays The “False God Of Objectivity” In Scorching Special Comment (Frances Martel/Mediaite)

11:45 PM ET, November 15, 2010

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Edmund Lee / AdAge:

Yahoo Cranks Up New Content Machine — Portal Completes Integration of Associated Content; Hires More Bloggers — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Yahoo is launching blogs, hiring writers and turning on its own fire hose of freelance content as it attempts to create and scale a low-cost model for media.

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David Lieberman / USA Today:

Yahoo to launch network featuring exclusive news — Yahoo became one of the Web's most popular news sources by aggregating and featuring other people's journalism. On Tuesday, it will take its biggest leap yet into the highly competitive business of creating its own news content.

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

Let a Zillion Users Blab: Yahoo Debuts “Contributor Network” — Yahoo is debuting a new offering for its hundreds of million of users, which takes the Demand Media model and notches up the volume by presumably allowing a thousand flowers to bloom. — Or, more to the point, blab.

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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

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David Carr / New York Times:

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Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:

Josh Marshall on TPM's first 10 years (and its next 10) — Josh Marshall says he “didn't have much sense going in of what TPM would become” when he started blogging on the Florida presidential recount at Talking Points Memo a decade ago. Neither did anyone else.

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Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Josh Marshall on Talking Points Memo's growth over the last decade …

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Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:

Vicious Infighting at NBC News — MSNBC's president vowed to fire Keith Olbermann after he threatened to take his case to other networks. Howard Kurtz on the civil war that has NBC brass—and his own staff—fuming. — Keith Olbermann was having dinner with his manager at an Upper East Side restaurant …

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Jon Friedman / MarketWatch:
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Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

USAT chart shows 27 staffers on entertainment beat — Five cover Congress. “To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time USAT's editorial staffing breakdown has been made public,” writes Gannett Blog founder and former USA Today reporter Jim Hopkins. Here's the chart.

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Frances Martel / Mediaite:

Keith Olbermann Slays The “False God Of Objectivity” In Scorching Special Comment — Keith Olbermann may have just inadvertently won himself the praise of the American right. In a twelve-minute Special Comment refuting Ted Koppel's obituary to “real news” this week, Olbermann attempted …

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Rick Edmonds / The Biz Blog:

Seven Reasons Newspapers Are Not Rebounding Financially — This was to be a year of convalescence for newspapers, not a total recovery but a dramatic improvement on the dismal results of 2008 and 2009. However, with third-quarter earnings in and just seven weeks left in 2010, the industry's vital signs are distinctly mixed.

Natalie Sherman / Boston Herald:

Rachel Maddow shrugs off crowd's push for Senate run — Could U.S. Sen. Scott Brown's fund-raising fear-mongering become a political reality with a 2012 Senate challenge from MSNBC's top liberal talk diva? — “There's a reason people in opinion-driven news flirt with running for office …

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Dan Abrams / Mediaite:

News Veteran Mark Joyella To Join Mediaite as TV Editor — I am thrilled to announce that Mark Joyella, a five-time Emmy winning reporter joins Mediaite today as the new TV Editor. Mark has worked as a reporter and anchor at television stations across the country including Miami and New York …

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Ethan Smith / Wall Street Journal:

Apple Gets Rights to Beatles Music — Steve Jobs is nearing the end of his long and winding pursuit of the Beatles catalog. — Apple Inc. is preparing to disclose that its iTunes Store will soon start carrying music by the Beatles, according to people familiar with the situation …

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

Briefing.com settles case with Dow Jones & Co. — Briefing.com paid a “substantial amount” and admitted liability to settle a lawsuit involving the unauthorized republication of news headlines and articles from Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, Barron's and Marketwatch.com …

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Bill Carter / Media Decoder:

NBC Scrambles Jets: ‘30 Rock’ Moves to 10; ‘Event’ On Hold — NBC announced wholesale changes to its struggling prime-time schedule Monday, highlighted by an all comedy night on Thursdays, which includes a move of the much-awarded “30 Rock” to 10 p.m., followed by the new comedy “Outsourced …

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Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:

Sam Zell to Bow Out of Tribune — Tribune Co. Chairman Sam Zell said Monday that he doesn't see himself having an operating role in the media company after it exits bankruptcy. — “I think when we're done with the bankruptcy process I will turn it over to whoever the creditors decide they want to run it …

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Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:

Few see Web, Hollywood like Eric Garland (Q&A) — The studios were preparing to cut and run from digital distribution in fall 2009, the last time I spoke at length with Eric Garland, CEO and co-founder of Big Champagne. — Big Champagne tracks the legal and illegal consumption …

Scott Rosenberg / MediaBugs Blog:

MediaBugs teams up with NewsTrust's Truthsquad to fix the news — Beginning this month we're starting a partnership with two other great organizations that share MediaBugs' vision of how to improve the error-correction process in journalism. — For several years now …

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John Heilemann / New York Magazine:

The Education of a Murdoch Man — At News Corp., outgoing schools chancellor Joel Klein will look for ways to build an individualized-online-classroom business. — In the wake of last week's shockeroo announcement that Joel Klein was stepping down as the city's schools chancellor …

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