Mediagazer: States reach $69 million ebook pricing settlement with publishers (Laura Hazard Owen/paidContent)

8:45 AM ET, August 30, 2012

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Media Calls Out Paul Ryan Falsehoods — Paul Ryan's vice presidential acceptance speech ran into a lot of trouble with fact-checkers and journalists. — It seemed like some reporters' heads were going to explode on Twitter as Ryan spoke. For instance, he blasted President Obama for not doing …

Discussion: Mediaite, PolitiFact, Salon, The Huffington Post, The New Republic, Pressing Issues, Gawker and The Nation

James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:

Bit by Bit It Takes Shape: Media Evolution for the ‘Post-Truth’ Age — Over the years, and recently in a few posts this month, I've mentioned signs that the mainstream press is adjusting to the realities of “post-truth politics.” — Everyone in the press is happiest, safest-feeling …

Discussion: The Raw Story

James Bennet / The Atlantic Online:
'We're Not Going to Let Our Campaign Be Dictated by Fact-Checkers'

Discussion: New York Magazine and The Daily Caller

Dan Conover / Xark: Why Fact Checkers fail

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

With Reddit chat, Obama goes around press directly to voters — How do you get President Obama to do a live Q&A with Reddit users? Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian told Peter Kafka, “There are quite a few redditors at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave and at the campaign HQ.”

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Yahoo News fires David Chalian — TAMPA, Fla. — Yahoo News has fired Washington bureau chief David Chalian after he was caught on a hot-mic during an online video broadcast today saying that Mitt Romney and his wife Ann had no problem with African Americans suffering as a result of Hurricane Isaac …

Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
Yahoo! News Washington Bureau Chief: Romneys ‘Happy To Have A Party When Black People Drown’

Discussion: Erik Wemple and FishbowlDC

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

States reach $69 million ebook pricing settlement with publishers — Ebook-buying consumers in 49 states (all except Minnesota) and five territories are set to receive $69 million as the result of a settlement between the states and HarperCollins, Hachette and Simon & Schuster.

Discussion: CT.gov Portal, WMAR and bizjournals

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: Court lets Authors Guild, attorney weigh in on Apple ebooks case

Josh Feldman / Mediaite:

Fox News Responds To Sarah Palin's Facebook Post On Cancelled Fox Appearances — Earlier today on Facebook, Sarah Palin informed her followers that her scheduled interviews on Fox News tonight were cancelled. Palin expressed disappointment that she would not be on-air to react to the speech given …

Discussion: New York Magazine, The Wrap and The Huffington Post

Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:

Correspondence and collusion between the New York Times and the CIA — Mark Mazzetti's emails with the CIA expose the degradation of journalism that has lost the imperative to be a check to power — (updated below) — The rightwing transparency group, Judicial Watch …

Discussion: The Wrap, Media Decoder and Poynter

Arthur S. Brisbane / The Public Editor's Journal:
Pre-Publication Disclosure of Dowd Column: A Breach of Two Boundaries

Discussion: Poynter, Guardian and The Huffington Post

Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:

Kobo to Replace Google E-Books for Independent Booksellers — Kobo has struck a deal to sell e-books and its line of e-readers through independent U.S. booksellers, giving the Toronto firm a new chance to establish a foothold in the American digital books market.

Discussion: GalleyCat, Digital Book World, TeleRead and Los Angeles Times

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Exclusive: Amazon NY to sell its ebooks through B&N, Kobo, other retailers

Discussion: Fast Company, CNET, Good E-Reader, Engadget, GeekWire, The Verge, WebProNews and Bookseller news

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Phone hacking: former News of the World head of legal arrested — Tom Crone understood to have been arrested by by detectives from Scotland Yard's Operation Weeting — Phone hacking: detectives from Scotland Yard's Operation Weeting have arrested a 60-year-old man. Photograph: Felix Clay for the Guardian

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

Brzezinski: ‘Somewhere over the years, the news media got lost and forgot what news was’ — When Mika Brzezinksi and Joe Scarborough began hosting “Morning Joe” in 2007, they told MSNBC President Phil Griffin that they were going to take a different approach to reporting the news.

Discussion: Gawker, @jackshafer and TVNewser

Emma Gardner / Lean Back 2.0:

What can publishers learn from the music industry? — In the pre-digital days of not-so-long ago, news articles were bundled into nice, neat packages. Every day or week, a newspaper or magazine featuring a selection of articles would be delivered to a reader's door.

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

During Night One Of RNC, Fox News Draws More Viewers Than Any Other Network — On night one of the Republican National Convention, Fox News Channel was the clear ratings winner on TV, drawing substantially more viewers than any other TV network, including NBC, CBS and ABC. NBC was tops in the key adults 25-54 demo.

Discussion: The Wrap, The Wrap, Multichannel, Erik Wemple, Mediaite, Radio & Television …, SocialTimes, Politico, FishbowlDC, Broadcasting & Cable, 10,000 Words and TVSpy

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Digg's “Blank Slate” Approach Could Hinder Its Journey Back to Relevance — Once the darling of Web 2.0 enthusiasts the world around, social news aggregation site Digg fell from grace over the past three years. — The final death rattle of the Digg we once knew sounded last month …

Barb Palser / American Journalism Review:

A Promising New Venue — TV stations and their digital outlets may play a more prominent role in investigative reporting. Mon., August 27, 2012. — Barb Palser (bpalser@gmail.com), AJR's new-media columnist, is vice president, account management, with Internet Broadcasting.

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:

Pandora's Q2 2013: $101.3M In Revenue, 54.9M Active Users, And A Net Loss Of $5.4M — Internet music service Pandora just announced its financial results for the second quarter of its fiscal 2013. The company posted total revenue of $101.3 million, which was up 51 percent year-over-year.

Discussion: VentureBeat, MediaPost and MediaPost

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

CNN's Exquisitely Awkward Spot — You've probably seen that last night a convention attendee was ejected from the hall for pelting a black CNN camerawomen with nuts and saying the words “this is how we feed animals.” Follow up reports this morning say actually two people were ejected.