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FEMA Official Loses Job Over Fake News Conference (NYT)
A fake news conference at the Federal Emergency Management Agency has produced, along with outrage and ridicule, its first personnel casualty. John P. Philbin, until last week the agency's public relations chief, was supposed to start work Monday as the new director of public affairs for the nation’s top intelligence official, Mike McConnell. But he learned instead that he would not. PRNewser: Philbin Responds PRNewser: Philbin's Going-Away Email WaPo Editorial: Fake news conference raises doubts about the "new" FEMA.

Curbed Attracts Capital (NYT)
The residential real estate market may be troubled, but property-focused Web sites are still attracting visitors and investors. Curbed.com, a popular real estate blog network with sites in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, has obtained $1.5 million in financing to expand into new cities and add staff members.

Why No Coverage of War Protests? (CSM)
Jerry Lanson: Coordinated antiwar protests in at least 11 American cities this weekend raised anew an interesting question about the nature of news coverage: Are the media ignoring rallies against the Iraq war because of their low turnout or is the turnout dampened by the lack of news coverage? I find it unsettling that I even have to consider the question.

Marketwatch Not a 'Content' Provider (Marketwatch)
David Callaway: "Content" is a horrible word, snagged from the bowels of the dictionary by the same Internet marketing folks who gave you "B2B," "hard stop," and "digital solutions." Its primary definition is something that is contained, such as the contents of a bag of dog food, or the contents of a bottle of valium. News is the last thing that can be contained — especially online news.

Details Apologizes for Affleck Misquote (Page Six)
Details editor-in-chief Dan Peres has his tail between his legs after his November cover boy, Ben Affleck, was misquoted in an article by Bart Blasengame. In the December editor's letter, Peres apologizes for quoting Affleck as saying, "I've gone out and directed a movie and made it really [bleep]ing good," referring to Gone Baby Gone. "Affleck never made such a statement," Peres writes.

Web Marketing to a Segment Too Big to Be a Niche (NYT)
Although 50 million people in the United States have some form of physical or mental disability, they spend money just as easily as others. But there are few efficient ways for advertisers to reach them, and that's what a new Web site, Disaboom.com, hopes to change.

What's Fair for TV Should Be Fair for Magazines (MIN)
Ed Papazian: The way the broadcast television networks have handled the conversion from average minute ratings to so-called "commercial ratings" should be instructive to magazine publishers. Far from allowing the agencies to dictate what should and should not be included in the new TV audience counts, the networks took a proactive stance in demanding that delayed viewing via DVRs be part of the equation.

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