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CJR: NYT Paywall Datapoints of the Day.

Perhaps, but they’re still offering low cost deals for periods of time. Once the specials stop, what happens?

Independent.UK: Driver ‘said he provided protection for the Murdochs’, court told.

“Part of the job of a former driver for News International was to ‘hand over packets to various police officers’ that were part of a “corrupt payments” system ...” Is anyone in America still paying attention to this? Good grief.

Lists of Note: Who killed JFK?

Another fascinating slice of history, from a great blog.

The 99%: Pat Kiernan On Curation Tactics, Getting Up Early & Calling It Done.

“In any story, I try to always find a stand-alone nugget to grab onto that ideally leaves you with something quotable.” Interesting thought. I suppose for a blog, you try for something tweetable.

Nieman Lab: Meet Deep Dive, the NY Times’ experimental context engine and story explorer.

“Deep Dive uses the Times’ massive cache of metadata from stories to go, as the name suggests, deeper into a news event by pulling together related articles. So instead of performing a search yourself within the Times and weeding out off-topic results, Deep Dive would provides readers a collection of stories relating to a topic, based on whatever person, place, event or topic of their choosing.” Okay, now I’m *really* out of a job.

Globe and Mail: All hands on deck - How can we make more heroes?

“There’s an individual moral compass [that] orients human beings to the right things ...”

The Atlantic: Time for a Royalty System for Aggregators?

“NewsRight has identified the most aggressive “scrapers”—the scores of sites that search the Internet for news in a range of subject areas and characterize themselves as ‘media databases’ or ‘media monitors’ and sell subscriptions to corporations or government agencies without compensating news organizations. The scale of these businesses has apparently reached a size that, over time, could make a difference to the bottom line of the content generators.” Some of these scrape my stuff regularly - I see the stats. They can’t decide on popularity or stickiness themselves, so they look to good old webloggers to do it for them.

Poynter: Washington Post raises eyebrows, questions with ‘composite’ photo on front page

I prefer the one that wasn’t used. Scroll down to see it, in this particular case. HDR folks tend to favor way too much saturation. It’s like being punched in the eyes.

NY Times: Should The Times Be a Truth Vigilante?

“Throughout the 2012 presidential campaign debates, The Times has employed a separate fact-check sidebar to assess the validity of the candidates’ statements. Do you like this feature, or would you rather it be incorporated into regular reporting?” The Times is asking for input on this. I say, incorporate into the reporting, so I don’t have to click and winnow again.

NY Times: Joan of Arc, Enduring Power.

“We don’t need narratives that rationalize human experience so much as those that enlarge it with the breath of mystery.”

Finest observation I’ve read in a long spell.

Raw Story: Boehner’s office cuts off C-SPAN cameras as GOP takes verbal beating.

“It’s for reasons just like this, one might infer, that Boehner told C-SPAN back in February it would not be allowed control its own cameras.” Freedom of the press? Constitution? *Knock* *Knock* Hello, Rep. Boehner?

Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire: Republicans Lose Tax Issue to Obama.

Crash. Burn. But with the short-attention news cycle, who’ll care in two months?

Christopher Hitchens: His greatest Slate hits.

You know — and I mean no disrespect here (and I’m sure he’d take none) — there’s an odd sort of coincidence that the news of his death far outsaturated the news of the end of the War in Iraq, a war he supported. 

The Weekly Standard: There at the New Yorker.

A quick look at what’s shaped The New Yorker.

CNet: Take an aerial tour of fossil-fuel country.

Another article that puts the OG line first, legitimate environmental concerns second. A PR push? Calling in markers? OG folks, put tracers in your fracking slurry. Put your money where your mouth is.

Mashable: Half of FB users post political messages.

Yes, it’s gotten quite bad since a few days after OWS started. It hurts my head to look at FB these days. A lot of textual shouting going on, but little shifting of opinion. I’d like to have a political post filter, so I could block all of it. Not like I haven’t seen those items a dozen times over in my daily aggregator troll.

Vintage covers from Fact magazine.

Gives the flavor of a different era.

CJR: Austerity and Objectivity.

“Why are spending cuts contractionary overseas but not here?” Must be those six martini lunches down near Fraunces Tavern ...

Macworld: Study - Most tablet users won’t pay for news content.

Anyone surprised?

Philly.com: Big media’s shameful news brownout on the Wall Street protests.

This is when we miss the Rolling Stone magazines of the 60’s. Remember my credo ... hit local, smaller newspapers for the real stories behind events. As we saw during the Gulf oil spill, much important information is never aggregated and reported on by the bigger media sources.

Miller-McCune: Myth of the Modern Religious War.

“Many wars are falsely framed as religious by a media either ignorant of the reasons for fighting, or seeking a simpler, quicker explanation than a detailed history, a complicated border or an ethnic component too difficult to untangle in 45 seconds. And when there is a religious component, it receives a disproportionate amount of coverage, compared to other issues from that war, or other fights that do not have a religious bent, because religious wars have a narrative we all understand — the perceived clash between good and evil.”

ReadWriteWeb: IPad Magazine Zite Finds Perfect Home, Acquired By CNN

“Johnson also said that Zite will in no way feature CNN, Turner or Time Warner (which owns CNN) content in any way. The platform will remain content agnostic.” I hope so ... but then why buy it? I love Zite just as it is.

The Atlantic, In Focus: Hurricane Irene.

Say what you will, Irene was a wallop. The preparedness was appropriate. The overdone media ‘fear and panic’ hype was not. The 24/7 news cycle mitigates against avoiding panic.

Later: Jason Silver of Five Thirty Eight comments.

Boston Globe: High court overturns murder conviction of NY financier.

“Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O’Keefe said in a statement that he would retry Toolan, who was convicted in June 2007.” I understand the judge’s point, but only in a cultural vacuum; in our modern interconnected world this horrific deed was broadcast far and wide across the states around Nantucket - I daresay tainting all prospective jurors in the Northeast. I feel the judge has far overreached in reinterpreting the conviction.

At least he’ll be tried again.

[Caveat: I worked with Beth. At one point we were competing at the same management level at Aniforms. Our interactions were always good-natured and competitive. At that time, she still had the coltishness of a recent college grad, always that quick flash of toothpaste-perfect smile. I liked her very much, and was devastated to learn of her murder.]

naked capitalism: Why is the US Media Going Easy on the Murdoch Scandal?

“Good question.” Perhaps they fear being compared to ‘Fleet Street’.