Mediagazer: The Economist Hits iPad, Targeting A Million Paying Digital Readers (Robert Andrews/paidContent:UK)

Fox News Chief Blasts NPR ‘Nazis’ — Roger Ailes slams Jon Stewart as a conservative-basher, explains why he rode to Juan Williams' rescue—and sees NPR as taxpayer-funded propaganda. Part II of Howard Kurtz's interview. — When Jon Stewart was appearing on the O'Reilly Factor a few weeks back …

Discussion: Media Decoder, Media Matters for America, Romenesko, BlogPost, Salon, Mediaite, Guardian, New York Observer, New York Magazine, Gawker and The Huffington Post

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:

Fox News chief apologizes to ADL for ‘Nazi’ remark — Fox News chief Roger Ailes apologized Thursday to Abraham Foxman, national director for the Anti-Defamation League, after calling NPR executives “Nazis” in an interview with The Daily Beast. — Ailes, in a letter, began by following up on …

Discussion: The Big Picture, Gawker, The Awl and New York Magazine

eMedia Vitals:

Fair use: how much is too much? — Fair use: how much is too much? — Reactions: 8 — Page view “journalism” and content aggregation are the cornerstones of the explosive growth of Gawker, Huffington Post and slews of other blogs, but does that growth come at the expense of the publications who conducted the original reporting?

Chadwick Matlin / CJR:

A Faustian Bargain — Slideshows are the scourge, and the savior, of online journalism — In May 2009, Thebigmoney.com was shouting into the void. Slate's business site was eight months old, but it was still averaging only 50,000 page views a day, well below The Slate Group's goal.

Discussion: Romenesko and SAI

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Crunching Denton's Ratio: What's the return on paying sources? — There was a lot of buzz on Twitter yesterday about Paul Farhi's piece in The Washington Post on checkbook journalism — in particular the way a mishmash of websites, tabloids, and TV news operations put money in the hands of the people they want to interview.

Discussion: Deadspin

David Shapiro / The Awl:

Snuck Into National Book Awards — i am at the National Book Awards at the Cipriani on Wall Street and i am standing fifteen feet away from Tina Brown. Tina Brown is sitting at her table and she just finished her dinner and i am waiting with my friends Mike and Nate to interview her to ask …

Discussion: The Daily Beast

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Los Angeles Times, Speakeasy and GalleyCat

Penelope Cruz / CBS News:

“60 Minutes” iPad App Debuts — New App Features Hard-Hitting Reports, Interview and Features Seen on Broadcast And More — (CBS) “60 Minutes,” America's number-one news program, is now available on iPad - the first prime time news magazine to have its own stand-alone application for the hand-held device.

Lewis DVorkin / The Copy Box:

A new breed of journalist fits right in at Forbes — I've called myself a journalist for decades. I've worked for the best and learned from the best. I've spent exhilarating nights in the newsroom — at newspapers, magazines, TV and a web portal. I've even been lucky enough to watch and edit Pulitzer prize winners at work.

Andrew Wallenstein / paidContent:

NBC Universal Reorg Gives Bond, Zalaznick New Digital Duties — Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) has announced the new executive structure for NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), ending Hollywood's favorite guessing game these past few months. Few surprises given the endless speculation, but there were shifts worth noting …

Discussion: Media Decoder, Company Town, Mediaite, mediabistro.com and Broadcasting & Cable

Nat Worden / Wall Street Journal:

Cable Provider Offers Bare-Bones TV Package — Time Warner Cable Inc. is rolling out a lower-priced cable TV package called “TV Essentials” that excludes major cable networks like ESPN, Comedy Central, TNT, Fox News, MSNBC, Fox regional sports networks and MSG.

Discussion: paidContent, Company Town, CNET News, Time Warner Cable Untangled and GigaOM

Jordan Fabian / The Hill:

House fails to eliminate NPR funding — The House on Thursday voted to move forward on legislation without voting on a proposal put forth by Republicans to defund NPR. — Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), the next majority leader, said the vote demonstrates that Democrats “are still not ready to listen” …

Discussion: Hillicon Valley, The Caucus, AllAccess.com and The Huffington Post

David Kaplan / paidContent:

NBCU's Zucker: In An On-Demand World, Content Matters More Than Schedules — CNBC (NYSE: GE) talker Jim Cramer grilled his out-going boss Jeff Zucker during a quick back-and-forth about his high points and low points, his job prospects and where the TV business is headed as the merger of Comcast …

MediaShift Idea Lab:

Google News Meta Tags Fail to Give Credit Where Credit Is Due — Far be it for me to question the brilliance of Google, but in the case of its new news meta tagging scheme, I'm struggling to work out why it is brilliant or how it will be successful. — First, we should applaud the sentiment.