Mediagazer: How PRWeb Helps Distribute Crap Into Google & News Sites (Danny Sullivan/Search Engine Land)

6:50 AM ET, November 27, 2012

Top News:

How PRWeb Helps Distribute Crap Into Google & News Sites — “What's the use of PRWeb?,” tweeted Megan McCarthy of Reuters, trying to digest how that service ended up circulating a fake Google acquisition story. Come along, Megan and others, and I'll explain one of the sorriest uses …

Discussion: the Econsultancy blog, AllThingsD and BetaNews

Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
ICOA CEO says never had acquisition talks with Google

Discussion: Ars Technica, Blogging PRWeb, The Next Web, Hillicon Valley, TechCrunch, Gawker, AllThingsD, Business Insider, GigaOM, The Verge and WebProNews

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Guest on Fox News to Discuss Benghazi Attack Is Given a Quick Exit — Thomas E. Ricks, the veteran defense reporter and author, said he expected his Monday morning appearance on Fox News to last about three minutes. It ended, in fact, after 90 seconds — his last sentence was a description …

Discussion: Gawker, New York Magazine, TVNewser, Softpedia News, The Huffington Post and Pressing Issues

Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
Fox Interview Ends After Guest Accuses Network Of Operating As ‘Wing Of The Republican Party’

Discussion: Politico, The Raw Story and Erik Wemple

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Guardian and BBC battle for traffic in the Big Apple — The Guardian is making a song and dance about its web traffic having surpassed that of BBC News in the U.S. (via release). — That is a significant milestone for the UK publisher in the battle to win American hearts, minds, eyeballs — and advertisers.

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
The Guardian goes responsive with its new mobile site following a month-long beta trial

Discussion: Guardian

Cary Spivak / American Journalism Review:

Are These Guys Crazy? — It has happened in newsrooms across the country. News breaks that somebody is buying a newspaper, undoubtedly at a deeply discounted price. Buyout-weary reporters and editors look around their own newsrooms filled with empty desks and wonder: “Who are these guys buying newspapers?

Alison Flood / Guardian:

Former OED editor covertly deleted thousand of words, book claims — Efforts to rewrite the dictionary in the 70s and 80s to omit entries with foreign origins described as ‘really shocking’ by author — An eminent former editor of the Oxford English Dictionary covertly deleted thousands …

Discussion: Melville House Books, The Verge, Gawker and bookforum.com

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Why pushing for a paywall at the Washington Post completely misses the point — As paywalls continue to spring up at newspapers both large and small, like mushrooms after a rainstorm, those who have chosen to take a different path — the Guardian in Britain, the Washington Post and Digital …

Discussion: PandoDaily and NetNewsCheck Latest

Dean Starkman / CJR:
The Washington Post needs a paywall—now

Discussion: ReadWrite, Capital New York and @jbenton

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

How we read, not what we read, may be contributing to our information overload — Every day, a new app or service arrives with the promise of helping people cut down on the flood of information they receive. It's the natural result of living in a time when an ever-increasing number …

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

Where Are You Android Users? — Over at BusinessInsider, Henry Blodget has a post up that gets to at a topic I've wondered a lot about — both as someone just interested in tech but also as a news publisher. In short, with so many Android devices out there, why does so little mobile traffic seem to come from them?

Discussion: parislemon and Business Insider

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

Report: Cameron will oppose calls from Leveson for ‘state meddling’ in the press — With Prime Minister David Cameron reportedly set to oppose any calls from Lord Justice Leveson for ‘state meddling’ in the press, leader of the opposition Ed Miliband has insisted that Leveson's recommendations should be implemented.

Discussion: CNN, Guardian, Telegraph and Guardian

Robert Peston / BBC: Leveson: Cameron's dilemma

Jim Romenesko:

Cox Media Group to launch website for ‘heartland conservatives’ — Cox Media Group is launching “a national news website for conservative audiences that is independent, anti-propaganda and rooted in the South away from the right and left coasts,” according to ads on the Cox website.

Discussion: News & Views …

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

With ‘Defiance,’ Comcast's Syfy Bets $100M On Convergence Of TV And Videogames — On a sprawling soundstage on the outskirts of Toronto, Kevin Murphy is giving a tour of the alien world he's helping bring to life. As silver-eyed humanoids stroll silently past, Murphy …

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

Say What? BuzzFeed has 30 Million Monthly Unique Visitors w/ Zero Banners — MONACO — BuzzFeed, the fast-growing digital news publisher, will average 30 million unique monthly visitors this year, but won't host a single banner ad, says founder and CEO Jonah Peretti.

Thanks:@beet_tv

John Koblin / Deadspin:

Media Experts Dan Okrent, Jack Shafer, and David Carr Discuss ESPN's Plagiarism Problem: “If I Were Them, I Would Be Embarrassed” — It's now been 138 days since we turned up ESPN entertainment writer Lynn Hoppes's extensive habit of copying and pasting from Wikipedia.

Jonathan Zittrain / The Future of the Internet:

Don't sue over tweets — I just published a short piece in the F-T in the wake of legal threats against users who tweeted or retweeted a link to a BBC report of child abuse that turned out to be wrong. Here's the full text - — Those who didn't see the false child abuse accusations …

Discussion: Guardian, New York Times and Prof Chris Daly's Blog

John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:

NBC, Verizon Strike TV Everywhere Deal — Deal covers TV stations, cable nets and the Internet — NBCU has struck a program carriage deal with Verizon FiOS that includes rights to over-the-top delivery to multiple screens. — The wide-ranging deal, announced Monday …

Discussion: MediaPost and Cable Television News

David Banks / Guardian:

Google is publisher according to Australian court — Search engine loses libel case and is ordered to pay $200,000 for online defamation — Google will have to be quicker to remove defamatory content, at least in Australia, after it lost a $200,000 libel action there.

Discussion: ReadWrite, Mashable! and TechCrunch