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

9:40 AM ET, June 1, 2012

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

New York Times, Washington Post Defend Against Politico's Media Bias Claims — NEW YORK — Politico's executive editor, Jim VandeHei, and chief White House correspondent, Mike Allen, suggested Thursday that The New York Times and Washington Post are biased in favor of President Barack Obama …

Discussion: @mlcalderone, NewsBusters.org blogs, Erik Wemple and Weekly Standard

Oliver Burkeman / Guardian:
Perhaps I'm biased, but can we please stop talking about ‘media bias’?

Discussion: Mediaite, @antderosa, Capital New York, Erik Wemple, Poynter and @jayrosen_nyu

Devin Gordon / GQ:
Five Points About Politico's Hatchet Job On NYT and WaPo

Discussion: Slate, The Atlantic Online, The Huffington Post, Erik Wemple, Gawker, Weekly Standard, The New York Observer, Politico, Poynter, Talking Points Memo and Politico

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 found his career on ice. — The producer, Chris White, had been offered a job by CNN before the video was broadcast.

Discussion: TVWeek.com, Mediaite, Inside Cable News, TVNewser, New York Magazine, AintItCool, entertainment.time.com, AdAge, Media Decoder and NewsBusters.org blogs

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Kickstarting a Soccer Magazine: An Old Medium Finds A New Way Of Funding — To launch a print magazine in 2012, you almost by definition have to be something of a nostalgist. But when it came time for George Quraishi and Mark Kirby to raise money for Howler, their new magazine for American soccer fans …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

Paul Sonne / Wall Street Journal:

News Corp. Could Face 500 Phone-Hacking Claims — LONDON—Lawyers for both News Corp. and phone-hacking victims on Friday estimated in court that the media company will ultimately face about 500 civil claims related to illegal voice-mail interception by the now-closed News of the World tabloid.

Daniel Bentley / Journalism.co.uk:

CoveritLive switches to paid-only service — Popular liveblogging platform CoverItLive has announced the end of its free usage tier, becoming an entirely paid for subscription service. — In an email to current subscribers the company wrote: … CoveritLive's ‘Starter’ subscription costs $9.99 per month …

Discussion: Examiner and 10,000 Words

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

What the Forbes model of contributed content means for journalism — Two years ago, Forbes.com was a news website like most others. — Today, it is less website, more operating system — an underlying layer of technology that hundreds of contributors use to publish independently.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

Tim J. McGuire / McGuire on Media:

This I believe about journalism, newspapers and the future of media — I believe it's important to pause every now and then to write down my values and thoughts. That's especially true in the ever-fluid media world where nothing is standing still. This missive will attempt to take stock …

Discussion: The Buttry Diary, @stevebuttry, @stevebuttry, Guardian and JIMROMENESKO.COM

Dylan Tweney / VentureBeat:

Digital news pioneer Michael Bloomberg reads 8 newspapers a day — New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, who made billions of dollars as the founder of the disruptive digital news and data service that bears his name, prefers to get his news the old-fashioned way: On dead trees.

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, The Tech Trade, mediabistro.com, AllThingsD, Capital New York, Your Communications Coach, The Newspaper Guild, FishbowlNY, Poynter and New York Times

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Pew: 8% Of U.S. Online Adults Now Use Twitter Daily — According to the latest data from the Pew Internet & American Life project, 15% of online adults in the U.S. now say that they have used Twitter in the past and 8% told Pew that they do so on a typical day.

Discussion: Pew Internet, VentureBeat, CNET, Mixed Media, The Next Web, NetNewsCheck Latest, Digital Book World and PewResearch.org

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Why we need to blow the article up in order to save it — Many media outlets — and not just traditional players like newspapers or magazines, but even some newer and more digital-savvy ones — still think of the article or the story as the bedrock foundation of news and journalism.

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

Wadar Khanfar: Social media content from Syria proved vital and accurate — Wadar Khanfar, the former general manager of Al Jazeera Wadar, warned news outlets today about embracing “the narrative of the government” as he accused international society of failing to “address the issue of Syria”.

Clay Shirky / CJR:

WaPo must transform to survive — Clay Shirky disputes The Audit's take on the Washington Post's financial future — Ryan Chittum's “The Washington Post Co.'s Self-Destructive Course” is a blistering attack on the paper's management of its journalistic mission and its economic viability.