Mediagazer: NBC's ‘Community’ to Lose Its Temperamental Maestro (Bill Carter/Media Decoder)

Josh Stearns / Groundswell:

Hindsight Journalism — In an earlier post I picked apart Ted Koppel's graduation speech to the students at UMass Amherst. However, I wanted to return to his remarks briefly and take a closer look at one portion of the speech that I didn't contend with in my earlier post.

Thanks:@jcstearns

Bill Carter / Media Decoder:

NBC's ‘Community’ to Lose Its Temperamental Maestro — The rabid (if relatively few) fans of the NBC comedy “Community” got the word they were fearing late Friday night when the studio that owns the series, Sony Television, decided to replace Dan Harmon as the creative hand in charge of the series.

Discussion: Vulture, Dan Harmon Poops, The Verge, Daring Fireball, The Huffington Post, Gawker, The Wrap, TMZ.com, ArtsBeat, /Film and TVLine

Josh Feldman / Mediaite:

Rather Defends George Bush Report, Slams Corporate-Owned Media On Real Time — Dan Rather sat down with Bill Maher tonight for a candid conversation about what the news has come to these days with the rise of opinion journalism and consolidated media. In the middle of the discussion …

Discussion: The Raw Story

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

What is Vice Media's Shane Smith really selling? It's hard to say, but everyone's buying — A little after 3:00 on Thursday afternoon, Shane Smith, the voluble, bear-like co-founder of Vice Media, walked into the Soho loft space that had been selected as this year's headquarters for Internet Week New York …

Discussion: @hamiltonnolan

Jack Shafer:

So Warren Buffett likes newspapers again? — Just because Warren Buffett blew $142 million in cash on 63 daily and weekly Media General newspaper titles yesterday doesn't mean that newspapers are back. All it means is that an old cow that's still a milker has been moved to a neighboring farm's pasture …

Discussion: CJR, Tampa Bay Times, Xark!, Free Press and Poynter

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

How tiny Silverton, Colo., saved its newspaper (and ended up on the ‘Today’ show) — Silverton, Colo., has a population of 637 in the last census, but it didn't let its newspaper die, Bob Dotson reports on “Today.” The San Juan County Historical Society agreed in 2009 to become publisher of the Silverton Standard.

Craig Silverman / Poynter:

Social journalism research helps explain how information is verified on Twitter — Alfred Hermida's research on social journalism can help journalists better understand verification and accuracy on Twitter. Two papers in particular caught my eye: “Tweets and Truth: Journalism as a Discipline …

Guardian:

Rupert Murdoch denies claims that News Corp may sell UK newspapers — Mogul says News Corporation is ‘firmly committed’ to its papers including the Sun, Times and Sunday Times — Rupert Murdoch has denied reports that News Corp is considering spinning off its British newspapers to protect …

Discussion: Financial Times, Future of Journalism, Financial Times, Telegraph, CJR and Jon Slattery

Erik Larson / Bloomberg:

News Corp. Sued Over Hacking by Victim of 2005 London Bombings — News Corp. (NWSA) (NWSA)'s U.K. unit and the private investigator it hired to hack voice mail was sued by a professor who was seated next to a suicide bomber in the 2005 terror attacks on London's trains and buses.

Erik Maza / WWD:

Ad Pages Slip Further at New York Times' Magazines — NO UPTURN: Sally Singer opened the most recent issue of T The New York Times Magazine with a tribute to leisurely evolutions. “You realize that even when taste is a given, patience is a virtue,” she wrote.

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Erik Wemple:

CSIS to investigate Arnaud de Borchgrave's writings — The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) said this afternoon that it will investigate the work of Arnaud de Borchgrave, one of the think tank's program directors and a columnist for the Washington Times and United Press International.

Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu, @ebertchicago, @romenesko and Erik Wemple

Alex Pareene / Salon:

The National Review's fake plagiarism scoop — Updated: After falsely accusing Elizabeth Warren of plagiarism, the conservative magazine apologizes — The National Review says Elizabeth Warren is guilty of the gravest crime a writer can commit: Plagiarism.

Discussion: National Review, Politicker and Media Decoder

Michael Hastings / BuzzFeed:

Congressmen Seek To Lift Propaganda Ban — Propaganda that was supposed to target foreigners could now be aimed at us. “Disconcerting and dangerous,” says Shank. — An amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on American audiences is being inserted into the latest defense authorization bill, BuzzFeed has learned.

Discussion: Mediaite and @adrianchen