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

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 and Erik Wemple

New O'Keefe Video: Jay Rosen, Clay Shirky Discuss How the New York Times Promoted Obama, Protected Occupy — Earlier this morning, James O'Keefe's Project Veritas released a new video that sheds light on the way the New York Times promotes its favored candidates and causes, from Barack Obama to Occupy Wall Street.

Discussion: @andrewbreitbart

Keach Hagey / On Media's Blog:
NYT says target of O'Keefe sting didn't work for them

Discussion: Betabeat, Erik Wemple, Forbes and James O'Keefe's Project …

Steve Myers / Poynter:
James O'Keefe takes aim at Clay Shirky, Jay Rosen

Discussion: AllThingsD, Erik Wemple, Forbes, Globe and Mail, Mediaite and The Wrap

Jerry Barmash / FishbowlNY:

Cuts, Changes Come to Financial Video Service, Reuters Insider — It's been 17 months since Thomson Reuters debuted an online financial video news service, available to Reuters subscribers. — However, much like the recent layoffs dotting the radio landscape, (Cumulus, Clear Channel) …

Discussion: Future of Journalism

AllAccess.com:
Hundreds Cut By Clear Channel Yesterday

Discussion: The New York Observer

Emma Bazilian / Adweek:

Netflix Takes Up a Third of Internet Bandwidth Traffic shifting from computers to connected devices — Netflix may have lost 800,000 subscribers last quarter, but there are still more than enough streaming fans left over to hog nearly a third of peak Internet bandwidth.

Discussion: Digits and Bloomberg

Julie Moos / Poynter:

Longtime Washington Post exec Bo Jones to MacNeil/Lehrer — After more than three decades with The Washington Post, Bo Jones will become President and CEO of MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, which produces “PBS Newshour.” Jones, who is currently chairman of The Washington Post …

Discussion: FishbowlDC, @bobbymacreports, On Media's Blog, TVNewser and The Wrap

Joe Flint / Company Town:

DirecTV takes fight with News Corp. to the FCC — Satellite broadcaster DirecTV has taken its fight with News Corp. to the federal government. — The two sides are at odds over a new distribution agreement that would keep News Corp.-owned cable channels including FX on DirecTV.

Discussion: Adweek, Multichannel and Broadcasting & Cable

Tom Krazit / paidContent:

Wikimedia Doubles Down On Mobile With Wikipedia Zero, Carrier Appeals — After years of employing an ad-hoc community-driven approach to mobile, one of the world's biggest Web sites is going mobile in a much more organized way. Wikimedia Foundation is currently pitching deals involving …

Discussion: MediaNama

Carolyn Kellogg / Jacket Copy:

Agent Ira Silverberg said to be new NEA literature director — Agent Ira Silverberg is leaving Sterling Lord Literistic to become the National Endowment for the Arts literature director, according to an email obtained by the publishing industry newsletter Publishers Lunch.

Discussion: The New York Observer and Publishers Lunch

Dan Gillmor / Guardian:

Wikileaks payments blockade sets dangerous precedent — The mainstream media should be up in arms about corporations' ability to choke off sources of WikiLeaks' funding — Suppose you are the proprietor of an information service. Your customers buy what you sell using the major payment systems …

Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

Obama Administration Mulls Changes to Copyright Rules (Analysis) — New radical proposals that may shape the future of media include a small claims court for copyright disputes, new registration methods for blogs and crowdsourcing a digitization of the current card catalogue system.

Mac Engel / The Big Mac Blog:

ESPN shouldn't bother with Poynter, an ombudsman & quit faking journalism — It is cute to see ESPN play journalism and employ the nationally renowned Poynter Institute to act as its journalism watchdog and ombudsman. This is a mammoth organization that stands for Entertainment Sports Programming Network.

Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:

YouTube Close to Announcing Video ‘Channels’ — Google Inc.'s YouTube is expected to announce as early as next week that it has signed a slew of partnerships with media companies and well-known personalities to produce original content for the popular video website, said people familiar with the matter.

Discussion: VideoNuze, SEO Book.com, WebProNews, Electronista, MarketingVox News & Trends, CNET News, FT Tech Hub, Forbes and Softpedia News, more at Techmeme »

Ian Darby / Campaign:

Dennis Publishing to launch iPad edition of The Week — The Week, Dennis Publishing's news digest title, is launching an iPad edition. — The Week: releasing app — Dennis, which is also testing a web version of the title, is expected to launch The Week app in mid-November.

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk

Lawrence Pintak / CJR:

POWs, Dead Dictators, and Journalistic Ethics — Would any journalist have turned down the opportunity to interview Gilad Shalit? — The young Iranian prisoner was no more than fourteen, still caked with a thick layer of dust from the battlefield. He was among thousands of old men …

Dorian Benkoil / MediaShift:

E-Book Publishers Must Provide Flexible Access to Avoid ‘Media Hell’ — This week on MediaShift, we are exploring the dramatically changing publishing industry in our Beyond the Book special series. Stay tuned for more pieces like this one in the coming days.

Amy Chozick / New York Times:

Telemundo Seeks Spanglish Speakers, Aiming for New Viewers — Telemundo has long trailed its rival Univision in their competition for Hispanic television viewers in the United States. But as the number of second- and third-generation Hispanic-Americans skyrockets, the perennial runner …

Louis Bedigian / Forbes:

Will Spotify Pull a Netflix, Screw Over Consumers and Kill its IPO Dreams? — There has been a lot of love for Spotify this year. But you know what they say: if you love something, you have to set it free. — I'm starting to wonder if this applies to entertainment services.

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Livestream Refreshes Video Service: “Viewers Can Rewind While Its Live” — Livestream is unveiling a major upgrade to its live video service today. It won't be fully rolled out until December, but you can see a preview of it here or watch the video below.

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, Betabeat and AllThingsD

NPR:

David Carr: The News Diet Of A Media Omnivore … David Carr has a cold. On Sunday night, the media columnist for The New York Times tweeted to his more than 335,000 followers that he realized he probably had a variation of the common cold — because his drugstore was out of his favorite cold remedy.

Discussion: Gannett Blog

Brooks Barnes / Media Decoder:

Disney Channel to Be Introduced in Russia — LOS ANGELES — The Walt Disney Company on Thursday said it had completed a deal to introduce a nationally broadcast version of the Disney Channel in Russia, one of the world's last big untapped entertainment markets.

Discussion: Crikey and Company Town