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"On the Media"
"There's not the same enthusiasm for the big story," says Webster-Kirkwood Times editor Don Corrigan, who had a reporter witness the shootings at a city council meeting two years ago. "We just recently had another workplace shooting here in St. Louis -- three were killed, five were injured -- and nobody wanted to really take on that assignment." || More "OTM" audio and transcripts.

New York Times
They also like to send long articles on intellectually challenging topics, according to two University of Pennsylvania researchers. "Perhaps most of all, readers wanted to share articles that inspired awe, an emotion that the researchers investigated after noticing how many science articles made the list," writes John Tierney.

Slate
Daily Beast investigative reporter Gerald Posner lifted from Texas Lawyer, a Miami Herald blog, a Miami Herald editorial, a Miami Herald article, and a health care journalism blog, according to Jack Shafer. The Daily Beast has suspended Posner while it reviews his articles.

New York Observer
"If the New York Times is working on or has a story [about New York Gov. David Paterson], then you should confirm or print it," GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio writes to Times executive editor Bill Keller. "If you do not, then you have a moral obligation to stop the drama and the psychological warfare on Governor Paterson."
> NYT's Paterson expose said to be PG-13, not X-rated
> WPIX: Paterson to answer NYT's questions tomorrow

> Big publishers eyeing Demand Media's services
> Journal Register CEO: No more newsroom-shrinking
> Harry Evans finds WSJ "a very stimulating paper"
> Fry on athletes' social media use and sportswriters
> Tatro named AP's New York City news editor
> Omidyar: "Our goal is to create the new civic square"
> How much does the Advocate owe its journalists?
> Claim: NYT is trailing LAT on Toyota story

Editor & Publisher
"We are trying to satisfy a demand which doesn't seem to slack," says Jim Amoss. A normal press run for single-copy sales is about 25,000; by noon Monday, the Times-Picayune had printed at least 200,000 copies over that, reports Mark Fitzgerald.

Politico.com
The Post says the remaining 200,000 or copies should get to homes by tonight. Meanwhile, the paper's site brought in twice the typical weekend pageviews, reports Michael Calderone.

Journal-isms || Philadelphia Inquirer
Stephen A. Smith's sports column ran Monday for the first time in more than two years after he agreed to the Inquirer's demand that he remove political opinions from his website and agree to stop espousing them on cable news shows, reports Richard Prince.

Virginian-Pilot || Times-Picayune
"We're embarrassed, and we apologize to all our readers, especially Saints fans," says a note from the managing editor. || Meanwhile, in New Orleans... "We expect this to be the best-selling Times-Picayune in our 173-year history."

ABC News
The dealers in five southeast states shifted their commercial time buys to non-ABC stations in the same markets "as punishment for the reporting" done by ABC News and chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross, according to an ABC station manager.

Chicago Tribune
"That contrarian attitude toward culture, that scoffing attitude that people associated with us -- the plan now is to revive it," says Baffler founder Thomas Frank. A new issue of the magazine -- "a quarterly publication that only came out once a year" -- is slowly making its way to bookstores.

Vocalo.org
Did Sam Zell put the subject off limits? No, says Mike North, one of the four WBBM-TV hosts who conducted the 40-minute interview. "It was my fault. I was supposed to ask about the Cubs and Tribune, and I didn't."

NYTimes.com
Titles with dramatic single-copy declines include W, down 41.7%; Newsweek, down 41.3%; SmartMoney, down 37%; Time, down 34.9%; and Redbook, down 30.1%.

Romenesko Misc.
The meeting will be held Tuesday, nearly three weeks after union members overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to reduce salaries by 10%, cut vacations, and lengthen the work week. Since the 473-10 vote, Local 406 members have been displaying solidarity by wearing the same color on chosen days.

Broadcasting & Cable
"Even if you try to do something harmless, chances are good you're still going to get yelled at," writes Ben Grossman.

AdAge.com
Are there any billionaires left who are willing to take losses on worthy media properties? asks Simon Dumenco. "For that matter, how much more patience does the current generation of Richie Riches have left?" Dumenco points out that "a lot of the loudest new players in media have no use at all for billionaire benefactors."

New York Times
That's what Nashville videographer Dimitri LaBarge tells David Carr. (Demand generally pays $15 to $20 per article and $30 per video.) Unpaid Glamour magazine intern and Demand contributor Heather Mayer says: "I wish I could say that I am doing the work for extra money, but right now, it is the only money I have coming in. I'm torn, because they make a pretty good business out of what we do and pay us not much." || Related video.

Los Angeles Times
"I had real questions about taking this job," George Stephanopoulus tells Matea Gold. "I was wrong. I don't feel like I have really given up so much and I've gained so much more." || Washington Post: "News doctor" Frank Magid, who helped develop "Good Morning America," is dead at 78.

New York Times
Ethan Bronner (left) has a son in the Israeli military. "The Times sent a reporter overseas to provide disinterested coverage of one of the world's most intense and potentially explosive conflicts, and now his son has taken up arms for one side," writes ombudsman Clark Hoyt. "Even the most sympathetic reader could reasonably wonder how that would affect the father, especially if shooting broke out." || Executive editor Bill Keller responds. || Related from the Jerusalem Post.
> Goldberg: I'm glad Keller is NYT editor, and not Hoyt

Washington Post
"It's a source of great frustration here," says CBS White House correspondent Chip Reid. "It's important for us to hold the president's feet to the fire." President Obama hasn't held a full-scale news conference since July.