Mediagazer: Reddit vs. the Media (Will Oremus/Slate)

3:10 AM ET, April 19, 2013

Top News:

Max Read / Gawker:

The Post's ‘Person of Interest’ Is a Local High-School Track Runner — “BAG MEN,” the New York Post's front cover brays this morning, underneath a photo of two Boston Marathon spectators. “Feds seek these two pictured at Boston Marathon.” After its embarrassing performance on Monday …

Daniel D'Addario / Salon:

Post editor on “Bag Men” cover: “We did not identify them as suspects” — After printing a photo of two young men suggesting they were suspects, the New York Post's editor defends it — The New York Post's editor, Col Allan, has issued a statement to Salon about today's cover story.

Discussion: Jack Shafer, New York Post, Gawker, The Huffington Post, ABCNEWS, The Boston Globe, Mediaite, Pressing Issues, Guardian, Hollywood Life, The Week, Los Angeles Times, Infowars, Capital New York, Charles Apple, Gothamist and New York Magazine

Will Oremus / Slate:

Reddit vs. the Media — Two days after the tragedy, Wolf Blitzer of CNN attracts a crowd as he waits to go on air in Copley Square, close to the site of the Boston Marathon bombings, on April 17, 2013. Boston has been inundated with media from around the country and the world.

Discussion: Yahoo! News, Wired, Salon and The Week

The Daily Beast:

How the Internet Accused a High School Student of Terrorism — Online sleuths thought they nailed two suspects in the Boston bombing—and there they were on the cover of the ‘New York Post’ the next day. But now everyone's backpedaling in a big way. — Don't blame Rupert Murdoch. Blame the Internet.

Discussion: BuzzFeed, The New Yorker Blog, Salon, Mediaite, CNET, Digits, LA Observed, Folio, Business Insider and PetaPixel

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

On MSNBC, a Gun Debate That Fox Doesn't See — President Obama hadn't finished his first sentence on Wednesday when the Fox News Channel cut away from his Rose Garden remarks about the Senate's defeat of a measure that would have expanded background checks for gun buyers.

Discussion: TVNewser, Mediaite, The Huffington Post and Inside Cable News

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Who Can Save the ‘Today’ Show? — One Wednesday last month, Ann Curry, camouflaged in a hat and trench coat, trudged into the art-deco lobby of 30 Rockefeller Plaza. It had been nine months since she was pushed out as co-host of the “Today” show. Curry was now NBC's “national …

Discussion: The Wrap, Inside TV, The Week, FishbowlNY, TVNewser, The Huffington Post, Business Insider, Business Insider, The Corsair, National Enquirer, @edmundlee, Chickaboomer, New York Magazine, @brianstelter and @brianstelter

Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

YouTube Again Beats Viacom's Massive Copyright Infringement Lawsuit — After an appellate court revived Viacom's claims that YouTube hosted copyright infringing work, U.S. District judge Louis Stanton has again given the defendant a victory. — Viacom has been hit with a devastating legal loss.

Discussion: The Wrap, AllThingsD, SlashGear, New York Times, Techdirt, CNET, Variety, The Verge, TechCrunch, Home Media Magazine and Business Insider

Felix Gillette / Businessweek:

Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. Dodge Phone-Hacking Ruin — As Rupert Murdoch made his way into Parliament on July 19, 2011, to answer questions about the phone-hacking scandal engulfing his media empire, ruination hung in the air. Readers were boycotting his papers.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Los Angeles Times and MinOnline

Lewis DVorkin / Forbes:

Inside Forbes: On a Visit to Ole Miss, a Look Into Journalism's Past, Present and Future — Will Norton and I go back 40 years. A former Chicago Tribune reporter (a job I coveted at that time), he was a graduate student at the University of Iowa moonlighting as publisher of the campus newspaper.

Laura June / The Verge:

Digital Public Library of America launches beta web portal — The library of the future finally arrives — The Digital Public Library of America has launched a beta of its website today. The previously planned launch event was to be held at the Boston Public Library this week …

Discussion: Berkman Center, Forbes, Marketplace.org, Harvard News, Engadget, Ubergizmo, NPR, Knight Foundation and BBC

Teresa Novellino / Upstart Business Journal:

Hyperlocal startup Street Fight owns the block, hits profitability on 2nd anniversary — Two years ago, Laura Rich and David Hirschman founded an online news and interview site called Street Fight to cover companies in the burgeoning “hyperlocal” space, including media, retail, and location-based technology startups.

Jackie Bischof / Wall Street Journal:

Six Seconds to Impress Tribeca on Vine … If the idea of getting a film into the Tribeca Film Festival seems daunting, try impressing judges in six seconds using Twitter's film-making app, Vine. The medium may demand brevity, but there are no limits on creativity, judging from the shortlist released …

Discussion: The Wrap, Capital New York, New Yorker, TechCrunch and Speakeasy