FINAL CUTS: Denver Post vs. Drudge; Time publishes 50 lists

Joe Pompeo
·Media Reporter

Here's our list of media headlines that managed to evade the full-on blog treatment today:

• Time publishes end-of-the-year lists on just about everything, including the "Top Magazine Cover", "Top U.S. News Story," and "Top Underreported Story." Still waiting on "Person of the Year," though. (Time)

• The Denver Post is suing Matt Drudge. (Denver Post)

• But he's a "poor target for copyright vigilantes," says Jeff Bercovici. (Forbes/Mixed Media)

• Is WikiLeaks "the beginning of a new form of media?" (GigaOM)

• The author of an e-book containing the organization's leaked diplomatic cables and then yanked it from the Amazon store tells Peter Kafka he did so because of "anonymous threats against himself and his family." (AllThingsD/MediaMemo)

• Can you guess the top 10 Romenesko posts of 2010? (Poynter)

• Fox News Channel is said to be close to a deal to host a 2012 GOP presidential debate in Florida. (Orlando Sentinel)

• Zeke Turned is the latest editorial staffer to leave the New York Observer -- he is heading to Women's Wear Daily to work with former Observer editor-in-chief Peter Kaplan and former Observer media reporter Josh Koblin. (The Awl)