Mediagazer: How Occupy Wall Street Cost Me My Job (Caitlin E. Curran/Gawker)

9:50 PM ET, October 28, 2011

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An Update on Google TV — In the 1970s, there were just a few networks on TV. Cable changed things by adding hundreds of new channels like HBO, ESPN, and MTV. The Internet marks a new chapter for television. This chapter is not about replacing broadcast or cable TV; it's not about replicating what's on TV to the Web.

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

YouTube and Hollywood Finally Link Up: Here Come the Channels — YouTube and Hollywood, which have been circling each other for years, are finally getting together. — But instead of moving movies and TV shows to the world's biggest Web site, they're trying something different …

Discussion: paidContent, TechCrunch, GigaOM, VideoNuze and CNET News, more at Techmeme »

Claire Cain Miller / Bits:

Google Tries Again With Google TV — Google TV arrived last fall to lukewarm reviews. Its remote control was big and complicated, its software was clunky and confusing, and it didn't live up to the promise of Internet-connected TV's — that they would allow us to cut the cable cord and watch whatever we wanted whenever we wanted.

Discussion: Multichannel, CNET News, GigaOM, PC Magazine, Benzinga, TechCrunch and TechCrunch

Matt Rosoff / Business Insider: Google's Big Video Push Is Here: YouTube Getting More Than 100 New Channels

Gene Weingarten / Washington Post:

Modern journalism meets LOLcats — As you know, I sometimes worry aloud about my profession. Beset by financial pressures in a bewildering new digital world and waging a fevered, desperate battle to keep readers and attract new ones, journalism seems to be cheapening itself.

Discussion: First Draft, @jake_bernstein, @geneweingarten, @benhuh and Chickaboomer

Ben Huh / Washington Post:

Cheezburger's Ben Huh: Weingarten is confusing journalism with the business of newspapers — Journalism still has much to learn about timeliness when an oft-awarded columnist like Gene Weingarten is 34 days late to a story. Journalism still has much to learn about reporting when the writer …

Discussion: Poynter

Alexander Abad-Santos / The Atlantic Wire: Lolcats Could Save the Washington Post

Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
Gene Weingarten is wrong about bacon-cats and journalism

Discussion: Washington Post

Caitlin E. Curran / Gawker:

How Occupy Wall Street Cost Me My Job — Joining the Occupy Wall Street protests has its dangers. You could get pepper-sprayed or end up in handcuffs. Or, as Brooklyn-based journalist Caitlin Curran explains, your boss could see a photo of you holding up a sign at a protest and fire you the next day.

Discussion: Politics & Elections Blog, Reuters, The New York Observer, ThinkProgress, Betabeat, Media Matters for America, City Room, Forbes, GalleyCat, The Atlantic Wire, Boing Boing, On the Media, On Media's Blog, Gothamist and OccupyWallSt News

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Spooking Flipboard: Yahoo's Livestand and Google's Propeller Set to Launch Next Week — Memo to Flipboard, as well as Pulse, CNN's Zite and AOL's Editions: You might want to make some room in the already-crowded news and social reader space, because you're about to get some bigfoot company.

Discussion: VentureBeat, NetNewsCheck Latest, VatorNews, Business Insider, ReadWriteWeb, CNET News, mocoNews, Electronista, Medacity and Future of Journalism, more at Techmeme »

Jay Rosen / Pressthink:

Lefty journalism professor tries to discredit the Tea Party by passing along sensational footage to his buddies at the Times!!! — Yesterday I was the target of a “sting” operation by right wing trickster James O'Keefe. I will tell you what happened. — But first, here is the product of that sting …

Discussion: Mediaite, Poynter, Forbes, The Huffington Post, On Media's Blog, Erik Wemple, AllThingsD and On Media's Blog

Joel B. Pollak / Big Journalism:
New O'Keefe Video: Jay Rosen, Clay Shirky Discuss How the New York Times Promoted Obama, Protected Occupy

Discussion: Betabeat, The New York Observer and @andrewbreitbart

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

CBS, Warner Bros. Sell “Gossip Girl” Again — This Time to Hulu — CBS and Time Warner's Warner Bros., who just did a large re-run deal with Netflix for their CW network shows, have sold the same programming again. This time the buyer is Hulu, who is paying for the rights to show the stuff soon …

Discussion: MediaFile, Media & Entertainment, Home Media Magazine, Hulu Blog, NetNewsCheck Latest, CNET News, TechCrunch, Multichannel, paidContent, Company Town, Media Decoder, GigaOM, rbr.com, The Wrap and AdAge, more at Techmeme »

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Ad Sales Are Either Okay, Growing Slower, or Soft. Pick Your Answer! — Given that the world's economy seems to keep teetering on the precipice, it's no surprise that ad spending might pull back a bit. And we've seen predictions to that effect for some time.

Discussion: Bloomberg, Guardian, Adweek, MediaPost, AdAge, Financial Times and Wall Street Journal

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Heron: “I think my job will probably not exist in five years.” — Is the most up-and-coming job in journalism — the social media editor — a permanent position at news outlets, or a transitional role? — At a panel discussing social media best practices at the Journalism Interactive conference …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and Forbes

Dylan Byers / Adweek:

‘Guardian’ Correspondent Levels Plagiarism Charge at Reuters Two Moscow journalists report very similar stories By Dylan Byers — “Wow. Thanks to @Reuters for at least changing a few of the words from my story,” Miriam Elder, The Guardian's Moscow correspondent, tweeted Thursday …

Discussion: @dylanbyers, Poynter and Reuters

Steve Myers / Poynter:

News developers worried about new cost to use Google Maps — If the developers in your newsroom seem unusually stressed this week, it's probably because Google will start charging for use of the Google Maps API after Jan. 1. “An era has ended for the first API that really made mashups mainstream …

Discussion: the Econsultancy blog, Guardian and Softpedia News

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Cablevision: More Video Subscriber Losses, But Rate Appears To Be Slowing — There seems to be no escaping the cable industry's continuing decline in basic video subscribers, and Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) was no exception in Q3, though the rate of those losses appeared to be slowing.