Mediagazer: Wall Street Journal calls out Politico (Erik Wemple)

4:30 PM ET, September 11, 2012

Top News:

9/11 anniversary forgotten on the front page of today's New York Times — How do you mark the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks? For some papers in the cities where the attacks took place, the answer is subtle: It's time to move on. At The New York Times and the New York Post, Sept. 11, 2012 is just another day.

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

NBC's ‘Today’ Skips 9/11 Moment Of Silence For Kardashian Interview — At 8:46 AM, in New York City and at the White House in Washington DC, there was a moment of silence to remember when the first plane hit the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. In New York, the NYPD, FDNY …

Discussion: Deadline.com, New York Magazine, Gawker, Mediaite, Softpedia News, Politico, The Daily Caller, The Huffington Post and Daily Download

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

How to Cover the 11th Anniversary of 9/11? — The pain, the outrage, the loss - these never fade. The amount of journalism, however, must. This is the 11th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001 - that infamous date in the history of New York, the nation and the world.

Discussion: Capital New York, Poynter, The Huffington Post, The Atlantic Online, GigaOM, Charles Apple, Alabama Public Radio, Erik Wemple, FishbowlNY and The Awl

Jeremy Peters / The Caucus:

A Journalist With Rare Access to Obama Had to Play by Quote Rule — Michael Lewis, the best-selling author of “Moneyball” and “The Big Short,” was granted extraordinary access to President Obama for his latest article in Vanity Fair. — But with that access came one major condition.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, New York Times, Media Decoder, Poynter, Prof Chris Daly's Blog, @nytfridge, @dangillmor, Alabama Public Radio and kottke.org

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Michael Lewis, Granted Unprecedented Access To Obama, Agrees To Quote Approval — NEW YORK — On Tuesday morning, author Michael Lewis described his extensive access to President Obama for a much-anticipated Vanity Fair profile as a “great privilege,” in which the commander-in-chief “let me get to know him.”

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Another exit at the ‘Observer’: News editor Megan McCarthy — Three New York Observer staffers announced their departures from the salmon-tinted weekly last week. — This week, there's another: news editor Megan McCarthy is out. Her last day will be sometime this week.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Politico, @sarahw and @cschweitz

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Julian Assange threatened legal action over WikiLeaks documentary — Julian Assange threatened legal action against a film festival in an attempt to pressure them not to show a documentary on the history of WikiLeaks. Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, threatened to sue the South by Southwest …

Discussion: Capital New York, The Next Web, @freezingkiwi, @niallstanage, @davidallengreen and @davidallengreen

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Rupert Murdoch promotes NI top exec to News Corp chief technical role — Rupert Murdoch has chosen News International's top technology executive to set News Corporation's global strategy for digital publishing and to manage the technical end of the demerger of the media company into two separately listed businesses.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Media & Entertainment, Press Gazette and The Wrap

Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:

For Paton, Bankruptcy for Journal Register Is ‘Embarrassing’ but Necessary — The last few days have provided a lesson in humility, John Paton acknowledged. — Mr. Paton, the chief executive of the management company Digital First Media Group, had his subsidiary, the Journal Register Company …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

Tiffany Kary / Bloomberg:

Twitter Told to Produce Protestor's Posts or Face Fine — Twitter Inc. has to turn over information about an Occupy Wall Street protester's posts or face a fine, a judge ruled, giving the company three days to show it isn't in contempt of court. — New York State Supreme Court Judge Matthew …

Discussion: New York Magazine, Betabeat, Business Insider, NetNewsCheck Latest and AllThingsD, Thanks:@jaredbkeller

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

About 3,000 former Hearst interns join class action lawsuit — Diana Wang's lawsuit against Hearst has become a class-action lawsuit, and “may be decided as soon as early 2013,” Kayleen Schaefer reports. Wang served as an unpaid intern for Harper's Bazaar, which Hearst owns.

Discussion: New York Magazine

Cynthia Cotts / The New York Observer:

New York Times Union Reps Back in Talks with Management Over Contract — Negotiations over the New York Times union contract started up again this week, and labor and management are already at loggerheads, with union members fuming over the “disrespect” they've been shown so far.

Discussion: The Huffington Post