Mediagazer: Armando Iannucci calls on BBC to fight back against critics (John Plunkett/Guardian)

2:55 AM ET, September 12, 2012

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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 …

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Poynter:

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.

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

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

Cynthia Cotts / The New York Observer:
New York Times Union Reps Back in Talks with Management Over Contract

Discussion: nyguild.org and The Huffington Post

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. — Those lucky folks in the Nordics just recently got access to an on-demand, over-the-top HBO service that bears more than a passing resemblance to HBO GO, but we here in the States haven't been quite as fortunate.

Discussion: The Wrap

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: Mediaite and TVNewser

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

Discussion: @dylanbyers and Mediaite

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.

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

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: @megan, FishbowlNY, @sarahw, @cschweitz and Politico

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: JIMROMENESKO.COM, Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog 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 …

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Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:

Tumblr Feeling the Heat: New York Web Giant Under Pressure To Build A Business — David Karp is starting to feel pressure from investors to turn his giant social blogging platform, Tumblr, into a business, sources say. — The venture capitalists, particularly Sequoia Capital …

Discussion: The Atlantic Online

Foster Kamer / The New York Observer:

The Identity of Ruth Bourdain: Not Who New York Thinks It Is — The long-running mystery of who's behind the Twitter parody known as Ruth Bourdain—an amalgamation of the now-defunct Gourmet magazine's longtime editor Ruth Reichl and author/television personality Anthony Bourdain— received another jolt this week.

John Plunkett / Guardian:

Armando Iannucci calls on BBC to fight back against critics — Thick Of It creator said British television suffered from ‘consistent cack-handed interference by politicians goaded by the press’ — The Thick Of It creator Armando Iannucci has called on the BBC to fight back against its critics in parliament and the press.

Discussion: BBC and Guardian

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.

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