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4:20 PM ET, December 23, 2010

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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Demand Media's IPO-Which Won't Happen Until After the New Year Now-Depends on How It Accounts for Content  —  Yesterday, Demand Media submitted another amended S-1 to the Securities and Exchange Commission, part of its march to an initial public offering many had expected to take place sooner rather than later.
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Henry Blodget / The Wire:
Come On, Demand Media, Just Drop The Bogus Accounting  —  The reason the Demand Media IPO has been delayed, Kara Swisher says, is that the regulators are taking a closer look at the company's accounting.  —  As well they should.  —  Because it's unusual.
Discussion: Mixed Media
Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:
FCC chair to approve Comcast-NBC merger with conditions for program sharing  —  The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission issued a draft order approving Comcast's proposed merger with NBC Universal on Thursday, putting the deal up for vote before the agency's other members.
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Susan Crawford blog:
Why Comcast/NBCU matters  —  Since January 2010, I've been writing about the Comcast/NBCU merger.  Now we're in the end-game - so let's pull some threads together for this last post for the year.  —  This merger has more angles than a marathon trick-billiards match, but the most important one is this …
Jim Romenesko / Poynter:
Tribune's new management team releases updated conduct code  —  “It's impossible to spell out every possible situation that you might face,” says a memo sent to Tribune employees on Wednesday, so “use common sense and good judgment to steer your behavior and decisions.”
Discussion: Yahoo! News
Graham Bowley / New York Times:
Computers That Trade on the News  —  The number-crunchers on Wall Street are starting to crunch something else: the news.  —  Math-loving traders are using powerful computers to speed-read news reports, editorials, company Web sites, blog posts and even Twitter messages …
Guardian:
BSkyB: Without prejudice  —  On one level the Sky deal is simply business.  But the issue of media plurality is more than an argument about competition  —  It is a much-remarked upon irony of yesterday's humiliating slap-down of Vince Cable that he was both wrong and right.
Discussion: BBC
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Nils Pratley / Guardian:
Cable likely to cost Murdoch dear
Justin McGuirk / Guardian:
They've shaped the internet, but can designers save the newspaper?  —  We can see design thinking at work in web phenomena such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, but the predicament of printed news remains an unsolved problem  —  In the 1850s, a New York publisher announced that newspapers were dead: he had seen a telegraph in action.
Peter S. Goodman / The Huffington Post:
Kaplan Tarnishes Washington Post Legacy  —  Nearly four decades ago, the Washington Post found itself faced with the sort of agonizing decision that can define a reputation.  The New York Times had begun printing classified federal documents known as the Pentagon Papers …
Discussion: Media Myth Alert and Poynter
Rene Lynch / Daily Dish:
Restaurant critic S. Irene Virbila photographed and kicked out of Red Medicine  —  Our restaurant critic has been unmasked.  —  S. Irene Virbila, the L.A. Times' restaurant critic for the last 16 years, was visiting Red Medicine restaurant in Beverly Hills on Tuesday night when she was approached …
Ben Kunz / Business Week:
The $8 Billion Do Not Track Prize  —  Don't be fooled: The FTC proposal to protect online privacy has more to do with big publishers' revenue than Internet users' personal Web data  —  There's a great moment in All The President's Men, the film based on the 1970s Watergate investigation …
Longreads:
Foster Kamer: My Top 5 Longreads of 2010  —  Foster Kamer (ex-BlackBook + Gawker + Village Voice) is online features and news editor at Esquire.  —  2010 was an incredible year for writing, bottom line.  Despite the proliferation of things whose output is mostly antagonistic to great writing …
Thanks:markarms
Fortune:
So you want to be a viral video?  —  A look at Xtranormal, the company that makes those sardonic robot videos, and how they plan to be the Zynga of intentionally bad online animation.  —  By Chadwick Matlin, contributor  —  Screengrab from the Xtranormal Geico commercial
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
New CEO wastes no ‘Time’ with shakeup  —  Say goodbye to the Ann Moore business template — new Time Inc. CEO Jack Griffin yesterday smashed it to pieces.  —  In a major pre-Christmas shakeup, Griffin busted up the single News & Sports Group that contained Time and Sports Illustrated …
Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:
Why Netflix has content and Google TV doesn't  —  If Google managers hope to license premium TV shows and films for Google TV and YouTube, they should do what Netflix did and “build relationships through traditional means.”  —  That's the recommendation of one studio executive who was referring …
 
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Betsy Rothstein / mediabistro.com:
Editorial Tussle at Washington City Paper
Discussion: Yahoo! News and FishbowlDC
Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
WikiLeaks' Assange isn't talking to the NY Times (while still talking …
Discussion: Politics Daily and New York Times
Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:
Paywalls, Patch, Public Media & Pointcast Memories: 11 Conventional …
Robert Niles / Online Journalism Review:
How to do better than Groupon in building local advertising market share
Chip Le Grand / TheAustralian:
Libel laws ‘must apply’ to new media
Rex Rhoades / The Sun Journal:
Sun Journal changes rules for online commenting
 Earlier Picks: 
Conor Friedersdorf / The Daily Dish:
How Neutral Should Journalists Be?  —  One school of thought contends …
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
Discovery: Dish Does Not Have Right To ‘Sling’ Its Content To Web
Discussion: GigaOM
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Vox populi: What Lab readers think journalism can expect in 2011
Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
The Social Guardian points to the future of real-time news sharing
Thanks:cbmyers
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Will Anyone Make This Movie About Rupert Murdoch?