Mediagazer: Arizona sheriff slams media ‘vitriol’ (Keach Hagey/On Media's Blog)

6:45 PM ET, January 9, 2011

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Steve Safran / Lost Remote:

How incorrect reports of Giffords' death spread on Twitter — Update: NPR Senior Strategist Andy Carvin, who worked on the NPR online effort Saturday, has left a great explanation in our comments section about some of the decisions he faced. We have incorporated a small piece of it into the story …

Discussion: Las Vegas Blog

Keach Hagey / On Media's Blog:

Arizona sheriff slams media ‘vitriol’ — Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik took several shots at the media during his interviews and press conference on the Tucson shooting Saturday. — During the press conference, he criticized “people who making a living” off “inflaming the American public”:

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Chad Catacchio / The Next Web:

Twitter isn't the new Cronkite - it needs the new Cronkite(s) — Twitter needs an anchor - or perhaps hundreds, thousands or millions of them. — I thought a lot about that post during todays events, and I now feel that while the point that Twitter is the place to go for breaking news is beyond question …

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Craig Silverman / Regret the Error:

NPR, Reuters, CNN and other major news orgs incorrectly declare death of Rep. Giffords — The shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others at a public event earlier today resulted in an onslaught of breaking news reporting. Major news organizations raced to gather reporting, and information began to spread quickly.

Discussion: New York Times, Arizona Republic, CJR, msnbc.com, NPR Topics, Boing Boing, The Politico, Yahoo! News, Poynter, Fimoculous.com, TBogg, Associated Press, Slate, The Huffington Post, Mediaite and On Media's Blog

Matthew Belloni / Hollywood Reporter:

EXCLUSIVE: History Channel Pulls ‘The Kennedys’; Says Controversial Miniseries ‘Not a Fit’ … In a surprise move, A&E Television Networks has canceled plans to broadcast The Kennedys, the ambitious and much-anticipated miniseries about the American political family that was set to air this spring on the History Channel.

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Jerry Lazar / KobreChannel:

Clueless in Columbus — Here are five lessons the media should learn from the Columbus Dispatch's video story about Ted Williams. (That golden-throated homeless guy does have a name.) — * 1. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. The gift horse we're talking about is not Williams.

Richard Abowitz / The Daily Beast:

At AVN Weekend with Porn's Top Talent Agent — Adult-film stars have descended upon Las Vegas, hustling for gigs at the industry's biggest convention. Richard Abowitz shadows porn's top talent agent as he wheels and deals. — Mark Spiegler waddles, shifting his girth from one foot to the other, swaying slightly side to side.

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

How to Steal Any Movie You Want on the Web: Wall Street Gets a How-To Guide — It's easier than ever to download any movie or TV show you want on the Web, for free. Just ask Rich Greenfield. Or better yet, let the Wall Street analyst show you, via a helpful four-minute video embedded at the bottom of this post.

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

WP publisher: ‘We achieved our goals for ad revenue for the first time in several years’ — Post publisher Katharine Weymouth tells her staff: “I committed to [Post Co. chairman] Don [Graham] and to the Board that we would return to profitability by 2011. Excluding one-time costs …

James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:

On the Media: It's time for NPR to broaden its mix — Will a self-review and new ethics code lead to more ideological balance on the network's staff? — Juan Williams suggested he'd been thrown under the bus of liberal orthodoxy when NPR fired him a couple of months ago.