Mediagazer: HGTV Taps Examiner.com Content Creation Engine (Laurie Sullivan/MediaPost)

7:00 PM ET, December 27, 2010

Top News:

In ‘Daily Show’ Role on 9/11 Bill, Echoes of Murrow — Did the bill pledging federal funds for the health care of 9/11 responders become law in the waning hours of the 111th Congress only because a comedian took it up as a personal cause? — And does that make that comedian, Jon Stewart …

Discussion: Poynter, CNN, Mediaite, Gawker, Gothamist, Media Research Center, Company Town, Most Recent Home Page Posts …, The Wire, New York Observer, Soup, The New Yorker Blog and Media Myth Alert

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

APer blasts ‘patently false’ scoop claims in NYT oil spill story — Romenesko Misc. — Associated Press oil spill reporter Harry Weber says of the New York Times' Sunday “Deepwater Horizon's Final Hours” story: “Their key assertions that the destruction of the Horizon 'has escaped intense scrutiny …

Discussion: The Wire, New York Observer, New York Magazine, FishbowlNY, TIME.com and Gawker

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Business cable primed for hefty gains — While viewers of the three business cable networks may be feeling a bit better today than a year ago — thanks to the 10 percent plus gain in the S&P 500 index in 2010 over last year — those producing TV's daily dose of business babble have a right to be downright giddy.

Discussion: TVWeek.com, Yahoo! News, The Wire, TVNewser and Talking Biz News

Glenn Greenwald / Salon:

The worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired — (updated below) — For more than six months, Wired's Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen has possessed — but refuses to publish — the key evidence in one of the year's most significant political stories: the arrest of U.S. Army PFC Bradley Manning for allegedly acting as WikiLeaks' source.

Discussion: Firedoglake

Jon Kalish / New York Times:

Talking Tech and Building an Empire From Podcasts — Balancing on a giant rubber ball in a broadcast studio and control room carved out of a cottage in Petaluma, Calif., Leo Laporte is an unlikely media mogul. — From that little town in California wine country, he runs his empire, a podcasting network, TWIT.

Discussion: Talking Biz News

Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New York Magazine:

Peretz in Exile — For decades, Martin Peretz taught at Harvard and presided over The New Republic—a fierce, if controversial, lion among American intellectuals and Zionists. Now, having been labeled a bigot, taunted at his alma mater, and stripped of his magazine, he has found peace in a place where there is little: Israel.

Discussion: Salon

Lynne Brennen / INMA:

Gen Y's reality is print newspapers' challenge — The other day, as we were musing around a conference table, someone asked a straight forward and seemingly naïve question: why don't people read print newspapers as much as they once did? — We all know that there are easily a hundred …

Brooks Barnes / New York Times:

Hollywood Moves Away From Middlebrow — LOS ANGELES — When negative Twitter commentary seemingly torpedoed the Sacha Baron Cohen film “Brüno” in July 2009, movie executives started talking in solemn tones about the ability of social networking to sway attendance.

Wall Street Journal:

While on Cellphone, a Rival's Ad — Mobile-phone companies are experimenting with a new way to steal their rivals' customers: the mobile insult to the device in hand. — Their new tactic involves mobile ads that appear when a person using a competitor's phone or network launches an application or browses the Web on their phone.

Discussion: Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim

Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:

For aides, reporters in Hawaii, a mix of work and play — HONOLULU - If the beachfront home where the Obamas are staying in Hawaii is the “Winter White House,” then you might call the Moana Surfrider this island's version of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.

Discussion: New York Observer

Amy Wicks / WWD:

Memo Pad: The Kardashian Covers... Terry Richardson's Equinox Campaign... KEEPING UP WITH THE KARDASHIAN COVERS: Kim Kardashian and her sisters have become the gift that keeps on giving for celebrity weeklies such as In Touch, Life & Style and Us Weekly. During the past year …

Discussion: The Wire, New York Observer and Jezebel

Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:

HGTV Taps Examiner.com Content Creation Engine — The evolution of social media continues to spawn new business models that suggest advertisers just need to let go. Similar to AOL and Yahoo, Examiner.com recently began pushing a content social model where brands sign on to advertise …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

Barry W. Lynn / AOL News:

My Wish for 2011: Better TV News … I'm one of those people who shows up on television just often enough for people sitting next to me on airplanes to occasionally ask, “Don't I know you?” By this they usually mean “you're not a really famous person,” but they also know you weren't their dentist 20 years ago, either.