Mediagazer: Five takeaways from the Fox News-David Petraeus conspiracy (Erik Wemple)

2:10 PM ET, December 4, 2012

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Fox News chief's failed attempt to enlist Petraeus as presidential candidate — Roger Ailes, the longtime Republican media guru, founder of Fox News and its current chairman, had some advice last year for then-Gen. David H. Petraeus. — So in spring 2011, Ailes asked a Fox News analyst headed …

Discussion: mediabistro.com, Guardian, The Wrap, Politico, Washington Post, TVNewser, Media Decoder, Poynter, Los Angeles Times, msnbc.com, New York Magazine, The Huffington Post and The Week

Erik Wemple:

Five takeaways from the Fox News-David Petraeus conspiracy — The Washington Post's Bob Woodward has dropped a nice little headline for the world's media nerds. “Fox News chief's failed attempt to enlist Petraeus as presidential candidate.” Turns out that Roger Ailes, who runs Fox News …

Discussion: The Week, The Wrap and Pressing Issues

Taylor Berman / Gawker:
Roger Ailes Tried to Convince David Petraeus to Run for President in 2011, Said Rupert Murdoch Would “Bankroll” It

Discussion: Guardian, Mediaite and Chickaboomer

Neetzan Zimmerman / Gawker:

Photo of Man's Imminent Demise Covers Front Page of the New York Post, Sparks Outrage — A freelance photographer working for the New York Post on an unrelated assignment happened to be standing on the 49th Street station platform when 58-year-old Queens resident Ki Suk Han was suddenly pushed onto …

Discussion: The Wrap, New York Magazine, Capital New York, New York Post, Mediaite, FishbowlNY, BBC, WebProNews, @jordanc, @allyssiaalleyne, @andrew_pugh1, @kenisajerk, @neilthackray, @jeffjohnroberts, @mandystadt, @devonlmurphy and HyperVocal

Alexander Abad-Santos / The Atlantic Wire:
Who Let This Man Die on the Subway?

Discussion: Poynter, Digital Spy, City Room, Gawker, The Week and The Huffington Post

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Why ‘The Daily’ Failed — Jeff Sonderman, writing for Poynter: With the benefit of hindsight, there seem to be at least two other major lessons from The Daily's failure: Audience clarity. It was difficult to grasp who exactly was the intended audience of The Daily.

Discussion: TechCrunch, The New York Observer, The Conversation, 90WPM, Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day, ReadWrite, Adweek and Garcia Media

The Onion: Dunbar Family Forced To Discontinue Print Edition Of Christmas Newsletter

Jack Shafer:
The Daily didn't fail-Rupert gave up

Discussion: mediabistro.com, Forbes, Los Angeles Times, Quartz, Talking Biz News and CJR

Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
3 Theses About The Daily's Demise

Discussion: New York Magazine, CNNMoney.com, GigaOM, JIMROMENESKO.COM and Gizmodo

Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:
Nine Questions on the News Corp Split: The Rise of Twenty-First Century Fox and The Daily's Demise

Discussion: Digiday, TPM IdeaLab and Hollywood Reporter

Hans Nichols / Bloomberg:

Vogue Editor Wintour Said to Be Possible Appointee as U.K. Envoy — President Barack Obama is considering nominating Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue, as his next ambassador to either the U.K. or France as he looks to reward his biggest fundraisers with embassies never out of fashion …

Discussion: AdAge, The Daily Beast, Mediaite, Vanity Fair, The Week, Fashionista, Chickaboomer, The Daily Caller, New York Magazine, msnbc.com and The Huffington Post

Reuters:

Cameron: clock ticking for newspapers to clean up act — (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron demanded newspaper editors come up with an effective system of self-regulation urgently on Tuesday following a damning inquiry into the reporting practices of Britain's scandal-hungry press.

Discussion: Guardian

Guardian: David Cameron tells editors: implement Leveson to avoid press law

Guido Fawkes: Who Has Been Naughty and Nice This Year? MPs on Each Side of the Leveson Debate

Jessica Roy / Betabeat:

John McAfee Admits That Vice Accidentally Revealed His Location in Guatemala — The photo in question. (Photo: Vice) — Antivirus software king John McAfee finally admitted this morning that an “unseasoned technician at Vice headquarters” royally screwed him yesterday by accidentally revealing …

Discussion: VICE, Who is McAfee?, Business Insider and Guardian

Jeremy A. Kaplan / Fox News:
Magazine editors helped John McAfee flee Belize

Discussion: The Next Web and Who is McAfee?

Julie Moos / Poynter:

Cleveland Plain Dealer tells Guild it plans to cut about one-third of newsroom staff — In a note posted on Facebook, Guild members say the Advance-owned Cleveland Plain Dealer has told them it plans to eliminate about one-third of the staff in 2013. The changes would come after the latest contract …

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Forecast: Internet ad spend will outstrip all print in 2015 — 2015 is the year when internet advertising spend will overtake combined newspaper and magazine ad spend globally, according to ad group ZenithOptimedia's latest forecast. — That mark has already been passed in some countries, but not on a worldwide basis.

Discussion: AllThingsD, BtoB Magazine and Guy Fawkes' blog

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

Les Moonves: '[CBS News] doesn't help the bottom line, but it is very important for the image of CBS' — This morning CBS CEO Les Moonves participated in a forum sponsored by the Wall Street Journal, a portion of that conversation focused on CBS News. Moonves talked about how happy …

Jemima Kiss / Guardian:

Soundcloud revamps site as users hit 180m — The ‘YouTube of audio’ claims to now reach 8% of the world's internet population as mobile audio takes off — If the future of the internet is mobile, things are looking very good for Soundcloud, the Berlin-based sound-sharing site.

Discussion: One Man & His Blog and SocialTimes

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

Yahoo Acquires Startup OnTheAir — Yahoo has acquired a startup called OnTheAir. — OnTheAir launched in March of this year. — It's been described in the past as a “Skype Meets Google+ Hangouts.” — A Mashable review of the product says this is how it works:

Discussion: @laureni and Mashable!