Mediagazer: Cable News Ratings Fall Across the Board, From Fox to MSNBC (Bill Carter/Media Decoder)

5:10 PM ET, May 31, 2012

Top News:

To GOP, blatant bias in vetting — On the front page of its Sunday edition, the New York Times gave a big spread to Ann Romney spending lots of time and tons of money on an exotic genre of horse-riding. The clear implication: The Romneys are silly rich, move in rarefied and exotic circles, and are perhaps a tad shady.

Discussion: Poynter, Slate, The New York Observer, Erik Wemple, Gawker, The Atlantic Online, Capital New York, @antderosa, @dylanbyers, @weareyourfek, Poynter, New York Magazine, NewsBusters.org blogs and Weekly Standard

Devin Gordon / GQ:

Five Points About Politico's Hatchet Job On NYT and WaPo — Here's the piece, published this morning. The upshot: The political coverage of The New York Times and The Washington Post is “blatantly biased” in their vetting of Romney versus Obama. (Guess which way they supposedly lean.)

Discussion: Politico, Erik Wemple and Talking Points Memo

Oliver Burkeman / Guardian:

Perhaps I'm biased, but can we please stop talking about ‘media bias’? — No human can adopt a position of perfect neutrality. Can we at least agree on that? — There is something brain-stretchingly confusing about today's article on media bias in Politico, headlined “To GOP, Blatant Bias In Vetting”.

Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu, @antderosa and Erik Wemple

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post: New York Times, Washington Post Defend Against Politico's Media Bias Claims

Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:

Producer of Obama Video on Fox News Loses CNN Job Offer — The Fox News producer behind a provocative four-minute anti-Obama video that aired Wednesday and caused the network considerable embarrassment has suddenly found his career on ice. — The producer, Chris White, had been offered a job by CNN before the video was broadcast.

Discussion: Mediaite and Media Matters for America

Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
Cable News Ratings Fall Across the Board, From Fox to MSNBC

Discussion: TVNewser, Capital New York, Radio & Television …, Inside Cable News and Los Angeles Times

John Hudson / The Atlantic Wire:
MSNBC Produced Its Own Anti-Romney Video in February

Discussion: @jwpetersnyt, Mediaite, Inside Cable News, The Huffington Post, Chickaboomer, Guardian and Media Matters for America

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Obama Video on Fox News Criticized as Attack Ad

Discussion: Mediaite, LA Observed, Media Matters for America, New York Magazine, entertainment.time.com, The Week, Erik Wemple, NewsBusters.org blogs, TVNewser, Hot Air, Baltimore Sun, AdAge, The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, ABCNEWS and Guardian

Jim Romenesko:

Times-Picayune editor on reporting ambitions, salary rumors — New Orleans Times-Picayune editor's memo to staff, sent this morning: From: Jim Amoss Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 7:18 AM To: Newsroom Staff Subject: some facts Dear colleagues, In our meetings at Howard Avenue and the East Jefferson bureau …

Steve Myers / Poynter:

Will other Advance newspapers face cuts like Times-Picayune, Alabama papers? — Advance Publications' decision to cut staff and reduce printing to three days a week at its papers in New Orleans and Alabama has worried journalists at its other newspapers. Cleveland Scene's Kyle Swenson reported …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, JIMROMENESKO.COM and New York Post

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Now playing: The New York Times signs on to Hulu to reach a new audience for its long videos — You can now find videos from The New York Times on Hulu, thanks to a content licensing agreement between the paper and the popular video site. — Video produced for NYTimes.com …

Discussion: New York Times

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Mike Daisey: Perhaps tech writers 'aren't actually journalists either?' — KQED | Mike Daisey, back with more media criticism, casts a steely eye at AllThingsD's D10 (or is that DX?) conference, currently teching it up in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. Daisey thought AllThingsD's co-executive …

Discussion: KQED News Fix, Mike Daisey, CNET, Softpedia News, Media Decoder and Wired

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

Sorkin On ‘The Newsroom’: ‘None of the characters are inspired by real people, not even a little bit’ — TV and film writer Aaron Sorkin appeared at the All Things D conference, where he talked about writing the Steve Jobs biopic, and of course “The Newsroom,” his upcoming cable news-centric show on HBO.

Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter:

Alan Horn to Run Disney Studios (Excusive) — UPDATED: The former Warner Bros. chief is Disney CEO Bob Iger's choice to run the studio — Former Warner Bros. chief Alan Horn is the choice to run Disney Studios, a source tells The Hollywood Reporter. — The source says the announcement …

Discussion: Media Decoder, Business Insider and Forbes

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Google, Facebook vie for stake in Vevo — Vevo — a joint venture of Universal Music Group and Sony Music along with the Abu Dhabi Media Co. — is valued at about $1 billion on revenue of $150 million, according to industry sources. Vevo licenses its content to a number of partners …

Discussion: CNET, VentureBeat and The Next Web

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Letters to the DOJ: Public speaks out on e-book pricing case — As the Department of Justice's lawsuit against Apple and five big publishers for allegedly colluding to fix e-book prices moves forward, the public has the chance to respond with their take on the allegations.

Discussion: paidContent