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9:50 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: New York Magazine, Media Decoder, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Deadline.com, Softpedia News, Daily Download, The Huffington Post, Gawker and Politico

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: Poynter, The Huffington Post, Alabama Public Radio, Charles Apple, Capital New York and FishbowlNY

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
The NYT doesn't need one public editor, it needs a hundred

Discussion: @bydanielvictor and The Atlantic Online, Thanks:@mathewi

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: New York Times, New York Magazine, Poynter, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic Wire, FishbowlNY, Prof Chris Daly's Blog, @nytfridge, @dangillmor, Media Decoder, Alabama Public Radio and kottke.org

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post: Michael Lewis, Granted Unprecedented Access To Obama, Agrees To Quote Approval

Douglas Brinkley / Vanity Fair:

Joe Scarborough to Test the Waters for a 2016 Presidential Run — By Douglas Brinkley Photograph by Mark Seliger — Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, photographed at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, in New York City. — Five years ago this month, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski began co …

Discussion: TVNewser, Mediaite and New York Magazine

Dylan Byers / Politico:
Scarborough: ‘I have no plans to run in 2016’

Discussion: Mediaite and @dylanbyers

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, @megan, @cschweitz and @sarahw

MG Siegler:

“The Math” — Earlier today at TechCrunch Disrupt, Ryan Lawler led a media panel. On it, sat Alison Moore, HBO's Senior Vice President of Digital Platforms. Naturally, the topic of selling HBO direct-to-consumers via HBO Go came up. “Here's the thing: it's math.

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: Citing “The Math,” HBO's Alison Moore Says There Are Still No Plans For Standalone HBO GO In The U.S.

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: Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog, JIMROMENESKO.COM and 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: ZDNet, ReadWriteWeb, Business Insider, Betabeat, Techdirt, New York Magazine, AllThingsD and Gothamist, Thanks:@jaredbkeller

Greg Sandoval / CNET:

Appeals court sides with RIAA, Jammie Thomas owes $222,000 — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit vacates a lower court's decision and rules that Thomas-Rasset, an admitted music pirate, must pay the top four labels $222,000. — The top four record labels have won …

Discussion: Business Insider

Greg Sandoval / CNET:
Thomas-Rasset to take $222K copyright case to the Supremes

Discussion: Wired and Techdirt

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

Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:

Fox News To Issue Correction For Misleading ‘Fox & Friends’ Graphic On Unemployment — Fox News will air a correction for a misleading graphic that appeared on Tuesday's “Fox & Friends,” Mediaite reported. The program ran into some mathematical difficulty when it threw up a graphic …

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, Talking Points Memo, Business Insider, New York Magazine, @lucas_shaw, Erik Wemple and Erik Wemple

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 …