Next in Media: Journos Miscalculated Box Office Records; U.S. Olympic TV Network to Debut

• Entertainment journalists often don’t account for inflation when reporting on box office records. Technically, Gone with the Wind still holds the record, earning over 50 percent more than Titanic in 2009 dollars. [Slate]
• The U.S. Olympic Committee will introduce a network devoted entirely to Olympic sports, expected to debut next year after the Vancouver Winter Olympics. [AP/Yahoo News]
• Writers like Maureen Dowd, Chris Anderson, Kaavya Kiswanathan and George Harrison have been accused of plagiarism, and now they are pointing blame on unconscious copying, or “cryptomnesia.” If this is a real condition, is it preventable or the perfect excuse for an unavoidable mistake? [Newsweek]
• Photographer Edgar Martins may have digitally altered photos he took of abandoned house construction projects that appeared in Sunday’s New York Times magazine. The Times removed the photos from its Web site with an editor’s note acknowledging that questioned were raised regarding the photos. [FishbowlNY/Mediabistro]
• Conde Nast is launching a version of GQ in China that will begin publishing monthly in October. It is the fourth Conde Nast title to launch in the region, following Vogue, Self and Modern Bride. [WWDMEDIA]
• Playboy paid an “outrageous” (yet still unknown) sum of money for serial rights to Vladmir Nabokov’s final, unfinished novella, The Original of Laura, which the New Yorker apparently turned down, in spite of the author’s dying wishes for his son to burn it. [Vulture / NYMag.com]
• New York Times tech columnist David Pogue points out that though Bing is another product in a long line of copycat products by Microsoft – in this case, Microsoft’s take on Google – Bing has some strengths that Google doesn’t, such as a rollover preview of the link’s text on the results page. [New York Times]