Mediagazer: Devoted to Politics, MSNBC Slips on Breaking News (Bill Carter/New York Times)

5:15 PM ET, June 3, 2013

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Nikki Finke / Deadline.com:

Nikki Finke To Sharon Waxman: Just Stop It — Right now I am not going to discuss my Deadline Hollywood contract or my relationship with my boss Jay Penske. Why? Because I don't have to. If that changes, I'll tell you. (I also didn't post about this imbecilic digital ad …

Discussion: New York Post, The Huffington Post, FishbowlLA, LA Observed, Poynter and Business Insider

Mike Fleming Jr / Deadline.com:

A Personal Note On Nikki Finke From Mike Fleming — Earlier today, I got an urgent e-mail blast from The Wrap about Michael Douglas contracting throat cancer from cunnilingus. It was presented with the same traffic-pandering, classless urgency as similar blasts I've gotten from the same publication …

Discussion: The Wrap, Los Angeles Times, Mediaite, FishbowlLA, Speakeasy, FishbowlNY, Business Insider, LA Observed, @bensheffner and @ckrewson

John Cook / Gawker:
Nikki Finke Just Doxxed Herself (and Tried to Undo It)

Discussion: FishbowlLA

Kate Aurthur / BuzzFeed:
What Nikki Finke Has Done

Discussion: The Huffington Post, @peterlauria3, Los Angeles Times and Capital New York

Bill Carter / New York Times:

Devoted to Politics, MSNBC Slips on Breaking News — At MSNBC they view it as rooting against death and destruction: the last thing the channel wants is more months like the last two, filled with terror bombings, tornadoes and plant accidents. — It's not all altruism.

Discussion: Poynter, Mediaite, mediabistro.com, Right Turn, The Daily Caller, TVNewser, The Huffington Post, Inside Cable News, New York Magazine and Pressing Issues

Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:

Execs from Apple and publishing houses calling each other idiots — The US government's antitrust lawsuit against Apple, which had its first day of trial today in New York, is worth keeping an eye on for at least two reasons: 1) The outcome could affect the entire media industry; and 2) …

Discussion: Bloomberg and Pulse 2.0

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Justice Department releases slides showing alleged Apple ebook conspiracy

Discussion: CNET, AllThingsD and Reuters

New York Times:
Trial on E-Book Price-Fixing Puts Apple in Spotlight

Discussion: Quartz and Reuters

Ed Pilkington / Guardian:

Bradley Manning's WikiLeaks trial: what are the key issues at stake? — The US soldier charged with ‘aiding the enemy’ is expected to be on trial for three months, starting today — After 1,100 days in military captivity, Bradley Manning finally goes to trial on Monday, for leaking a trove of state secrets to WikiLeaks.

Discussion: @casspf, Guardian, CNN, Pressing Issues, The Nation and Soup

Matt Sledge / The Huffington Post:
Media Organizations Urge Military To Allow Stenographers In Bradley Manning Trial

Discussion: Columbia Journalism Review

Luis Martinez / ABC News:
Bradley Manning Court-Martial Starts Today

Discussion: Guardian, The Daily Beast, Al Jazeera English, BBC, New York Times, Associated Press, The Independent, Agence France Presse, New Statesman, Reuters, The Independent, Mirror.co.uk, Sky News, Fox News, Newsday and BBC

Dean Starkman / Columbia Journalism Review:

Exclusive excerpts: ‘The Gestation Period of Llama (Or why I quit The Wall Street Journal)’ — In an new essay, a former investigative reporter explains how a Murdoch-ized operation led her to leave journalism and reinvent herself — Once, dissent was common in American newsrooms.

Discussion: Talking Biz News and Ink Stained

Dylan Byers / Politico:

POLITICO hires FP's Susan Glasser to head new long-form journalism, opinion divisions — Some truly game-changing news on the Washington media scene tonight: POLITICO has hired Susan Glasser, the editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy, to serve as editor of new long-form journalism and opinion divisions …

Discussion: Erik Wemple, New York Times, The Huffington Post, Prof Chris Daly's Blog, FishbowlDC, Nieman Journalism Lab and New York Magazine

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

AOL's Orphaned Music Sites Find a Home at Townsquare Media — In April, AOL laid off most of the people who worked for its music sites. Now it has let go of the sites, too: Radio chain Townsquare Media Group has picked up three of the portal's music properties, along with one aimed at comic fanboys.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Folio, Radio & Television …, Billboard, AllAccess.com, VatorNews, TechCrunch and CNET

Dylan Byers / Politico:

NBC/MSNBC to tap SCOTUSblog publisher — NBC News and MSNBC have announced that they will partner with the publisher of SCOTUSblog, the all-things-Supreme-Court website, for coverage of upcoming rulings. SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein and NBC News Justice correspondent Pete Williams …

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab

Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:

CNN Denies Rumors About Wolf Blitzer Shakeup — CNN is hitting back at rumors about possible changes to Wolf Blitzer's role at the network. — The New York Daily News reported Sunday that Blitzer's on-air time may be reduced as president Jeff Zucker continues his overhaul of programming.

Discussion: Inside Cable News

NY Daily News:
Cryin' Wolf at CNN! Sources say viewers will see less of veteran anchor Wolf Blitzer …

Discussion: TVNewser, Mediaite and All Things CNN

André Natta / Poynter:

Local Birmingham TV station reports former mayor's death, only to be fact-checked by AL.com — Saturday morning saw a flurry of activity on social media channels in Birmingham, Ala., as local television station CBS 42 published a report at 11:27 a.m. CT that the city's former mayor, Larry Langford, had died in prison.

Richard Horgan / FishbowlLA:

Kim Murphy Takes Over as LA Times National Editor — Some might argue that Roger Smith is getting out of the print newspaper business in general and Tribune Co.-owned corner of it in particular just in time. Per an internal memo shared this morning by LA Times readers' representative Deirdre Edgar …

LSE Media Policy Project:

Nesta Research: Public Interest High, Advertiser Interest Low for Hyperlocal Media — The future of local media in the UK has been in the limelight recently with the granting of local TV licenses, the House of Lords inquiry into media pluralism and the Newspaper Society supporting PresBoF's …

Discussion: Street Fight

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

Abramson, Woodward & Brokaw speak out about DOJ media investigations — In a “Face the Nation” interview about the Department of Justice investigating journalists, The New York Times' Jill Abramson said “the process of newsgathering is being criminalized.”