Mediagazer: Digg's “Blank Slate” Approach Could Hinder Its Journey Back to Relevance (Mike Isaac/AllThingsD)

4:50 AM ET, August 30, 2012

Top News:

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 and Mother Jones

James Bennet / The Atlantic Online:

'We're Not Going to Let Our Campaign Be Dictated by Fact-Checkers' — Critics have for many years inveighed against “false equivalence” or “false balance” in the mainstream press. This long crusade has finally achieved its grail, or at least a version of it: In this campaign season …

Discussion: New York Magazine and The Huffington Post

Dan Conover / Xark: Why Fact Checkers fail

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 …

Discussion: USA Today, Forbes, US News, Poynter, BuzzFeed, Mediaite, The Week, The Daily Beast, CNN, LA Observed, Deadline.com, NewsBusters.org blogs, Business Insider, National Review, The Huffington Post, Media Decoder, JIMROMENESKO.COM and Washington Free Beacon

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

Discussion: Erik Wemple and FishbowlDC

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 Inside Movies

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

Discussion: Poynter, The Huffington Post, Pressing Issues and Judicial Watch

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
NYT reporter was supposed to help fact-check a column, not send it to CIA

Discussion: Guardian, @craigsilverman and Talking Points Memo

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 and WMAR

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

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

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, TVNewser and The Huffington Post

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

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

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.

Discussion: Rolling Stone, Gawker, The Stream, @joshuafoust, The Daily Dish, Mediaite and Pressing Issues

The Huffington Post:
Republican Attendees Thrown Out After Racist Attack On CNN Worker

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Gawker, @deggans, Politico, Erik Wemple, New York Magazine, Talking Points Memo, CNN, Clutch Magazine and The Huffington Post

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Leveson ‘loading a gun’ against press industry, warns Indy editor — The editor of the Independent has said he fears that Lord Justice Leveson is “loading a gun” against the industry as he prepares his final report and recommendations following his inquiry into press culture and ethics.

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Leveson rulings expected to include ‘excoriating’ criticism of the press

Discussion: @benfenton, @benfenton, @dansabbagh, @joshhalliday and @lisaocarroll

Severin Carrell / Guardian:
Phone-hacking police arrest former News of the World Scotland editor

Discussion: @jamesdoleman

Press Association:
Patrick Foster, Former Times Journalist, Arrested Over Hacking Of NightJack Blogger's Emails

Discussion: @davidallengreen

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.

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Twitter's relationship with the media: It's complicated — Although it has only been a mainstream social network for a few short years, Twitter has formed a surprisingly tight and symbiotic relationship with the media, both because it is a kind of real-time newswire for information about events …

Discussion: @pkafka and @pkafka

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

Survey: Public prefers news from professional journalists — The public's trust in the institution of the press may be fading, and digital platforms have opened the publishing world to anyone with a desire to speak, but it seems professional journalists themselves are not seen as obsolete.

Discussion: The Newspaper Guild

Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post:

President Obama hits Reddit on ‘Ask Me Anything’ — President Obama participated in a surprise open question-and-answer session this afternoon on the Web community Reddit, as the subject of one of the site's regular “Ask Me Anything” threads. Reddit's site experienced some outages immediately following …

Discussion: GigaOM, The Huffington Post, The Atlantic Online, O'Reilly Radar, Los Angeles Times, NYT Bits, The Atlantic Wire, ReadWriteWeb, rt.com, TechPresident, The Next Web and AllThingsD

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 …

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

‘Time’ Stretches on for Publisher Search — It's been close to two months that Time magazine has been without a publisher, and Time Inc. is still on the hunt for a new head of sales for its namesake title. Leslie Picard is said to be a strong inside contender for the job, which Kim Kelleher quit to run digital company Say Media.

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: MediaPost