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Jack Shafer / Slate:
Why Not Pay Sources? … - The United States Is Completely Unprepared To Fight a Cyberwar- British Candidates Woo Voters Over Artisanal Cheese at the Farmers' Market- Why Do Insurers Ignore the Most Promising Way of Cutting Health Costs? - The Only Thing That Will Save the Earth …
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Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Gawker Media seeks legal reversal in Gizmodo search case — Shortly after Silicon Valley police entered the home of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen last Friday armed with a search warrant and walked out with four computers and two servers, Gawker Media raised the issue of California's shield law protecting journalists.
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Bits, Extra!, The Consumerist, Fortune, Poynter Online, Mediaite and Silicon Alley Insider
sergio hernandez:
On That Thing That You've Probably Heard About — So, um, a lot has been made about this whole Gizmodo/iPhone/search warrant thing. I've put off weighing in (which has been extremely difficult for someone who, like me, is fascinated by issues like media ethics and criminal law) …
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Hollywood Reporter
David Goldman / CNNMoney.com:
One in eight to cut cable and satellite TV in 2010 — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Despite rising cable and satellite TV prices and easy access to streaming TV and movies on the Internet, few consumers have cut the cord. But that looks like it's about to change.
Ian Shapira / Washington Post:
Unification Church will put Washington Times up for sale — Washington Times executives are negotiating to sell the newspaper, after the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's family cut off most of the annual subsidy of about $35 million that has kept the Unification Church-backed paper afloat, company officials said.
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Washington Monthly
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Hard Labor: Adobe Rebuilds Its Wired Magazine App to Fit Apple's Flash-Free Agenda — Condé Nast and Adobe spent months creating a version of Wired magazine for the iPad — only to be to told Apple wouldn't let the thing anywhere near its gadget. — So back to the drawing board …
The Huffington Post:
Coal Front Group ACCCE Sponsors PostPolitics.com Launch — What's Your Reaction: … According to the press release announcing the launch, — “The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity is the Washington Post's exclusive launch sponsor of PostPolitics.com.”
Jim / Gannett Blog:
In farewell, Digital Chief Saridakis attacks pay wall strategy, saying: ‘Industry going about it all wrong’ — In a long memo that's part manifesto and farewell letter, departing Chief Digital Officer Chris Saridakis slams the leading pay wall strategy as wrongheaded, an attack …
John Eggerton / Multichannel:
Genachowski: FCC Should Not Dictate Programming — Chairman Says Commission Will Be ‘Active Partner’ In Supporting Public Media — Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski said the commission will be an “active partner” in supporting public media as one response …
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MediaShift
Nicole LaPorte / The Daily Beast:
How I Became a Hollywood Pariah — Hungry Beast Giving Beast Women in the World — Blogs and Stories — Nicole LaPorte shares what it was like to write her new book about Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen, all of who did what they could to prevent it from being written.
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Job Cuts at ABC Leave Workers Stunned and Downcast — If “Good Morning America” or “World News” look any different in the coming weeks, it might be because ABC News is employing nearly 400 fewer people. — Earlier this week, ABC News, a unit of the Walt Disney Company …
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Big Journalism
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Why iPad mags cost $4.99 each — Because that's what the market will bear — at least for now — If you buy the digital editions of Popular Science or TIME Magazine on the iPad, they cost $4.99 each — same as on the newsstand. — However, one-year subscriptions to Popular Science …