Mediagazer: YouTube's Magic Number (Peter Kafka/AllThingsD)

1:10 AM ET, November 14, 2012

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Chuck Klosterman / Grantland:

I Lived a CIA Conspiracy Theory — I had an interesting weekend. Maybe you did, too. It's always a mixed bag, you know? Some Friday nights are drunken and exhilarating; other Friday nights are empty and reserved. And then, of course, there are those Friday nights when random people believe …

Discussion: Gawker, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The Public Editor's Journal, Pressing Issues, FishbowlNY and New York Times

Patrick Radden Keefe / The New Yorker Blog:

The Surveillance State Takes Friendly Fire — Last March, in a speech he delivered at a gathering orchestrated by In-Q-Tel, the venture-capital incubator of the Central Intelligence Agency, David Petraeus, the Agency's director, had occasion to ruminate on “the utter transparency of the digital world.”

Discussion: Telegraph, The Daily Beast and Wired

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Michael Hastings on a mission — Last night, Michael Hastings went on CNN and accused Gen. David Petraeus of “manipulating” the White House, accused former U.S. Gen. Mark Kimmitt of lying to the American people, and accused CNN's own Barbara Starr of being “a spokesperson for the Pentagon.”

Discussion: @jeremyscahill, @attackerman, @fivethirtyeight, @dylanbyers, @jayrosen_nyu, Mediaite, @jeremyscahill, The Huffington Post and BAGnewsNotes

John Aravosis / AMERICAblog:

Confirmed: ABC Denver misnames Petraeus book: “All up in my snatch” — Oh my. — A reader just sent me something that I didn't believe. Then he sent me a photo. Then he sent me a video. Then I found a comment on ABC Denver's Web site from another viewer who saw the same thing.

Discussion: TheDenverChannel.com, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Mediaite, HyperVocal, Chickaboomer, Random Pixels, CNET, The Daily Caller, The Latest Word, Betabeat, The Raw Story, Weekly Standard, Ostrow Off The Record, Gawker and The Huffington Post

Rupal Parekh / AdAge:

Whoops: Petraeus Given Starring Role in Newest ‘Call of Duty’ — War-Game Makers May Want to Think Twice About Using Real People — He may be embroiled in a dramatic and ever-growing scandal that cost him his job as CIA Director, but if it's any consolation, David Petraeus has retained …

Discussion: Media Money …, CNET, Associated Press and Speakeasy

Vernon Loeb / Washington Post:
Petraeus ghostwriter ‘clueless’ to affair

Discussion: Melville House Books, Forbes, City Desk, The Atlantic Wire, Mediaite, Garcia Media, FishbowlDC, BuzzFeed, LA Observed, Speakeasy, Daily Download, Poynter, Pressing Issues and The Huffington Post

Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine:
The Media's Five Stages of David Petraeus Grief

Discussion: Guardian and Business Insider

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Lesson from Petraeus: Your emails, and Gmail, aren't that private

Discussion: Forbes, Wired, @csoghoian, Poynter, WorldViews, Hit & Run, FP Passport and Betabeat

Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

Marcus Brauchli to step down as editor of The Washington Post — The Washington Post announced Tuesday that Martin Baron, the editor of the Boston Globe, will become its new executive editor, replacing Marcus Brauchli, who is resigning to take a new position within the company.

Discussion: Jack Shafer, The Huffington Post, @andrewphelps, Poynter, Boston Globe, @myersnews, @craigsilverman, @mlcalderone, @mlcalderone, New York Magazine, CJR and WBUR

Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:

New Top Editor at Washington Post: Marcus Brauchli to Be Replaced by Marty Baron — The Washington Post, facing steep financial challenges and striving to find profitability as readers abandon print papers for digital formats, changed its newsroom leadership Tuesday.

Discussion: mediabistro.com, Poynter, Media Nation, The Daily Beast, FishbowlNY, FishbowlDC, NetNewsCheck Latest, The Wrap and Capital New York

Dylan Byers / Politico: Baron: ‘No road map’ yet for the Post

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes: Washington Post Hires New Top Editor; Here Are The Memos

Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Brauchli leaving: Another WaPo rumor that turns out to be true

Discussion: City Desk, Erik Wemple and The Newspaper Guild

Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:

Newspaper Guild Approves New York Times Contract — The Newspaper Guild has approved a contract with The New York Times this afternoon, ending months bumpy negotiations between Guild members and management. — But the mood in the newsroom was one of resignation rather than elation.

Discussion: Media Decoder and JIMROMENESKO.COM

Newspaper Guild of New York:

Times contract: More dollars, stable pension, secure medical — The Guild and Times management have completed work on a memorandum of agreement that sets forth the terms of a new contract that Guild members will be asked to vote on next week. — The agreement, reached with the aid …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, New York Magazine and JIMROMENESKO.COM

Andrew Leonard / Salon:

Gallup is very upset at Nate Silver — The polling firm complains operations like FiveThirtyEight could spoil polling for everyone — Did Gallup just blame Nate Silver for ruining the art and science of polling? — You don't have to read too far between the lines of a statement …

Discussion: Business Insider, Mediaite and Election 2012

Andrew Romano / The Daily Beast: How a nerd named Nate Silver changed political reporting forever

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

YouTube's Magic Number — YouTube is grading the channels it has launched in the last year. At least six in 10 of them won't make the cut. — Out in videoland, there's lot of chatter about who's in and who's out. But if you take Google executives at their word, this shouldn't be that mysterious …

Discussion: VatorNews

Austin Carr / Fast Company:
YouTube Pairs With Google TV For Second-Screen Experience. Could iOS Be Next?

Discussion: YouTube Blog, CNET, TechCrunch and GigaOM

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

First female editor named at Broadcasting & Cable — Melissa Grego, currently executive editor, has been named editor in chief of Broadcasting & Cable, replacing Ben Grossman, who stepped aside as editor-in-chief of Broadcasting & Cable and will join Twitter as head of global operations, Twitter Media.

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Twitter Hires ‘Broadcasting & Cable’ Editor Ben Grossman To Lead Media Operations

Discussion: Lost Remote and Broadcasting & Cable

Rani Molla / GigaOM:

Privacy to porno: What censorship means around the world [map] — Google released data today that shows requests for censorship and surveillance are on the rise worldwide. Google keeps track of government requests to remove its content (requests it sometimes abides) and releases data biannually.

Discussion: The Next Web

Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:
Government surveillance on the rise says new Google report

Discussion: The Official Google Blog, Hillicon Valley, MediaNama, ZDNet, Daily Dot, PC Magazine, Mediaite and TechCrunch

Gordon Rayner / Telegraph:

BBC news chief pleads with staff not to Tweet about ‘our problems’ — Fran Unsworth, the new temporary head of BBC News, has appealed to staff not to Tweet about “our problems” as she tries to sort out the mess of the Newsnight scandal. Referring to the “tumultuous and very sad events of the past few days” …

Discussion: mediabistro.com, Daily Dot, Poynter, Telegraph and Telegraph

Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Reporter on Newsnight film questioned by BIJ

Discussion: The Times

New York Times: BBC Begins Disciplinary Action After Reporting Debacle

Roy Peter Clark / Poynter:

The 6 media distortions that magnify national disappointments — I made a mental list today of the institutions that have been stained by recent sexual scandals and came up with: the Catholic Church, the Boy Scouts of America, Penn State University, the BBC, the CIA, Congress …

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Bryan Cranston, Padma Lakshmi, Newt Gingrich, Matt Lauer, Michael Nutter cast non-Obama votes for ‘Time’ Person of the Year — Time magazine has a track record of picking newly elected or reelected presidents for its annual “Person of the Year” cover, which is now in its 85th year.

Discussion: WWD Media Headlines, FishbowlNY and Forbes