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'Gruesome' Bin Laden Death Photos Should Be Secret, White House Says (Yahoo! News / The Cutline)
The CIA has 52 photographs or videos that were taken of Osama Bin Laden after he was killed May 1 in the American raid on his compound in Islamabad, Pakistan, according to the Justice Department. But the White House has asked a court to reject a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that is seeking their release to the public.

Breaking Down GLAAD's Latest 'Where We Are On TV' Report (FishbowlLA)
The press release put out Wednesday by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation in support of its 16th annual "Where We Are on TV" report is somewhat misleading. It trumpets the fact that "Fox is now the most inclusive broadcast television network, with 6.8 percent of regular characters being gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender." In fact, the network that really deserves the PR lede is ABC. THR: The number of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered characters on broadcast television for the 2011-12 season has declined slightly, according to a new report from watchdog group GLAAD. TheWrap.com: According to the annual study issued Wednesday to coincide with National Disability Employment Awareness Month, five of 647 regular characters on broadcast networks have a disability.

Fox O&Os Launch Michael Jackson Doctor Trial App (B&C)
Fox Television Stations has launched a mobile app dedicated to the Conrad Murray (Michael Jackson's doctor) trial that the station group is billing as the first app exclusively dedicated to covering the trial. FishbowlLA: For 99 cents, iPhone, iPad, and Android users get access to live coverage of the trial, along with recorded local news segments, photo galleries, and biographies of all the key people involved in the case.

News Corp.'s 'Daily' With 120,000 Readers Trails Murdoch Goal (Bloomberg)
News Corp.'s The Daily is averaging about 120,000 readers per week, or less than one-quarter the number the company said it needs to make money, according to an advertising executive working with the iPad-only publication. paidContent: That weekly average, which we've confirmed, includes paying subscribers and people giving it a test run on a two-week free trial. Business Insider / Silicon Alley Insider: The publication lost $10 million in the first quarter. But while that is a lot of money, it's minuscule when compared with News Corp.'s $8 billion-plus quarterly revenue. Adweek: What do newspapers the Toledo Blade, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, and Rupert Murdoch's tablet paper, The Daily, all have in common? Each one has a weekly circulation of about 120,000.

WebMediaBrands' Inside Network Launches 2012 Election Tracker Monitoring Candidates' Influence On Facebook (Inside Facebook)
WebMediaBrands Thursday launched its 2012 Election Tracker, monitoring fan growth and marketing reach on Facebook for electoral campaigns. The Election Tracker, produced in association with Facebook, is published through Inside Facebook, and uses data provided by Facebook to track total fans and top gainers by party and by race. Yahoo! News / The Cutline: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie again said he isn't running for president. And Christie all but confirmed he's considering running. And he said he's not running in 2012, but hinted that he might reconsider.

Online News Editor Takes Over As RTDNA Chairman (TVSpy)
Emphasizing its reach across the digital media landscape, the Radio-Television Digital News Association appointed the editor-in-chief of a local news website and a public media news director to key positions on its board this week.

Amazon's Kindle Fire Could Ignite Tablet Media Consumption (AdAge / MediaWorks)
By pricing its new Kindle Fire tablet at less than one-half the cost of an Apple iPad, Amazon is setting up tablet consumption of media to spread more widely and quickly than was previously possible. GigaOM: The presentation is simple, inviting, and intuitive, and what you get for $199 is impressive. The screen looks great and has wide viewing angles with its IPS display, although there is some glare to deal with. The body itself looks similar to the BlackBerry Playbook, but remember, RIM's device started at $499 and just recently started getting price cuts down to $299. Amazon is no doubt subsidizing the price with the anticipation of making it up on sales of digital media. GigaOM: While it's nice for media companies to have a strong competitor in the tablet market, dealing with Amazon puts them in the same boat they're in with Apple: They provide the content, but the platform owner controls the relationship. And in some ways, Amazon might be worse. paidContent: The story of the Kindle Fire's impact on the tablet market won't be written until mid-November, when the device launches just before the holiday shopping season and gadget reviewers can put it through the paces. But Amazon has taught other tablet makers a powerful lesson about trying to compete with the company that pretty much invented the modern tablet market. ReadWriteWeb: What does Amazon have that Motorola, HTC, Samsung, LG, and Huawei do not? In a word…everything. Fusible: On the very same day Amazon unveiled the Kindle Fire, the company registered well over 500 domain names related to the Kindle Fire and Silk browser products through brand-protection company MarkMonitor. AllThingsD: If you were looking for another reason to be bearish about Netflix, Amazon helped out Wednesday by unveiling a cheap, attractive tablet designed to work with Amazon's own video service. But here's a reason to be bullish (or just less bearish) about Netflix: Amazon's new tablet is also going to promote Netflix.

No 'Dingers,' 'Jacks,' Or 'Taters': AP Issues World Series Style Guide (Yahoo! News / The Cutline)
"Better to say a player hit a home run, rather than he 'walloped' or 'blasted' or 'cracked' it. Home runs are also homers, but avoid calling them 'dingers,' 'jacks,' 'bombs,' 'taters,' and 'four-baggers.' Pitchers can pitch two-hitters, but avoid 'twirling' or 'chucking' or 'fireballing.' And teams try to reach the World Series instead of the 'Fall Classic.' In short, avoid hackneyed words and phrases."

NBC News President Steve Capus: 'It's OK For A News Division To Stand For Something' (TVNewser)
Capus: "What we can do as a news division is put a very bright spotlight on subjects that we choose to. A producer makes decisions every single day -- are we emphasizing this, are we emphasizing that? Where are we going to place our emphasis, and what are we going to ignore? I think that by saying, 'We're going to do this,' but then stepping back, we can facilitate the conversation without leading it.

Hearst Loses Marketing Bigwig (Adweek)
Hearst Magazines seems to have had a hiccup in its efforts to build out its marketing services division. Matthew Petersen, whom Hearst had poached from rival Meredith in 2010 to build out a marketing services platform, recently left the company.

More Rodale Execs Leave (Adweek)
It's been another tough week for Rodale. It's had a string of talent exit lately, and now another top executive, Gregg Michaelson, has left the health and fitness publisher. Also leaving was Karen Rinaldi, executive vice president and general manager of Rodale Books, after two years with the company.

WMAQ President Larry Wert Named EVP Of Station Initiatives For NBC O&Os (TVSpy)
Larry Wert, who has been president and general manager of NBC owned-and-operated WMAQ in Chicago since 1998, has taken on an additional title: executive vice president of station initiatives for NBC-owned stations.

Dakota Meyer Hired By Maxim As Military Adviser (Yahoo! News / The Cutline)
Dakota Meyer, who became the first living Marine since Vietnam to be awarded a Medal of Honor earlier this month, will soon have another title to add to his post-war resume: a spot on the masthead at Maxim magazine.

Reuters Again Adds To Opinion Section (FishbowlNY)
Reuters' op-ed section, helmed by James Ledbetter, is still growing. Wednesday, two new columnists -- Bethany McLean and Geraldine Fabrikant -- joined the team. McLean was a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and has written several books. Fabrikant was most recently a media reporter for The New York Times, where she had worked since 1985. NY Observer: McLean will write a fortnightly column on "finance, both high and low," according to a memo sent out by Jim Impoco. Fabrikant follows former colleague David Rohde to Reuters' moneyed shores, where her weekly column "will put a human face on business, focusing on the boldface names who make the money world go round."

Lisa Belkin Heads To HuffPost (WWD)
Longtime New York Times writer Lisa Belkin is heading to The Huffington Post. She's the fifth Times staffer in the past year to go to work for Arianna Huffington.