Mediagazer: In NBC's Shadow, Comcast Ponders an Olympic Plunge (Richard Sandomir/New York Times)

10:30 PM ET, December 29, 2010

Top News:

John Koblin / WWD:

Memo Pad: iPad Magazine Sales Drop — Remember when Wired's debut issue for the iPad sold more than 100,000 times in June? It looks like it will be a while before that type of performance is seen again. Digital sales dropped toward the end of 2010 for all the magazines that make those figures available …

/ Choire Sicha:

Magazines Are At War With Their Own iPad Apps — So while novelty purchase rates for magazines on the iPad have dropped off crazily, because people checked it out and are either unenthused or distracted or whatever, no telling the motivation, what's also happening is that print subscription rates …

Glenn Greenwald / Salon:

Wired's refusal to release or comment on the Manning chat logs — Last night, Wired posted a two-part response to my criticisms of its conduct in reporting on the arrest of PFC Bradley Manning and the key role played in that arrest by Adrian Lamo. I wrote about this topic twice — first back in June and then again on Monday.

Discussion: Firedoglake and p2pnet

Threat Level:

Putting the Record Straight on the Lamo-Manning Chat Logs — Editor's note: This is a two-part article, in which Wired.com editor-in-chief Evan Hansen and senior editor Kevin Poulsen respond separately to criticisms of the site's WikiLeaks coverage. — The Case for Privacy

Discussion: Foreign Policy, zunguzungu, The Nation, Scripting News, Yahoo! News, Firedoglake, The Rumpus.net, p2pnet, TechEye, GMSV, Boing Boing and WL Central, more at Techmeme »

Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Response to Wired's accusations

Discussion: Boing Boing and Firedoglake

Floyd Abrams / Wall Street Journal:

Why WikiLeaks Is Unlike the Pentagon Papers — Everyone knows that Daniel Ellsberg leaked top-secret government documents about the Vietnam War. How many remember the ones he kept secret, or why? — In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg decided to make available to the New York Times …

Discussion: Slate, Poynter, Firedoglake and On Media's Blog

the nytpicker:

NBC's Brian Williams Declares NYT's “Discovery” of Brooklyn As Media Story Of 2010. “It's Like Marrakesh,” He Says. — NBC News anchorman Brian Williams has declared the NYT's “discovery of Brooklyn” as the media story of 2010. — “There are young men and women wearing ironic glass frames on the streets …

Discussion: New York Observer and Gothamist

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

The Sun admits publishing false story — The Sun has owned up to what I guess we in the journalism trade realised the moment we saw it - its splash about the pre-Christmas live episode Coronation Street being targeted by al-Qaeda was false. — On 9 December, it carried this front page story …

Discussion: Mediaite, The Wire, mediabistro.com and New York Observer

Venkat / Technology & Marketing Law Blog:

Court Rejects Agence France-Presse's Attempt to Claim License to Haiti Earthquake Photos Through Twitter/Twitpic Terms of Service — AFP v. Morel — [Post by Venkat with a few comments from Eric] — Agence France Presse v. Morel, 10 Civ. 2730 (WHP) (S.D.N.Y.; Dec. 23, 2010)

Discussion: paidContent, Lost Remote and New York Observer

Richard Sandomir / New York Times:

In NBC's Shadow, Comcast Ponders an Olympic Plunge — Does Comcast cherish the Olympics with the same fervor as did General Electric, which has paid billions to make NBC the network of the Summer and the Winter Games for a generation? — The question arises because Comcast …

Discussion: TVWeek.com

Ryan Sholin / Invisible Inkling:

So long, ReportingOn — In 2008, I was awarded a Knight News Challenge grant to build ReportingOn, a backchannel for beat reporters to share ideas, information, and sources. The goal of the project was to provide journalists of all stripes with a place to talk about content, not craft, or process, or skillset.

David Weigel / Weigel:

Judith Miller Joins Newsmax — The New York Times reporter who quit the paper in 2005 — a casualty of the Valerie Plame scandal and a target of attacks on her pre-war reporting about Iraq's weapons programs — has a job in print journalism again. She's a contributing writer at Newsmax …

Discussion: The Wire, The Huffington Post, The Daily Caller, The Wrap, Wonkette and On Media's Blog

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

The Good, Bad and Ugly of Media iPad Apps — I know that year-end “best of” lists are everywhere this week and the next, but since I've been downloading and trying out almost every media-related iPad app I can get my hands on since the tablet was first released, I thought the end of 2010 …

Kevin Ding / Lakers blog:

ESPN responds to plagiarism allegations — ESPN responded to the reports that ESPNews anchor Will Selva used a section of a recent Kevin Ding column without attribution on the air Tuesday night. The ESPN reaction is first, then Kevin Ding's original blog post about discovering it follows.

Discussion: SPORTSbyBROOKS, Poynter, Mediaite and The Wrap