Mediagazer: Bloggers Aim Posts at Regulators (Thomas Catan/Wall Street Journal)

11:15 AM ET, May 21, 2010

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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Schmidt Says Google TV Ads Will Be a Cash Machine — Television may have been around for half a century or so, but Eric Schmidt thinks Google TV can one-up regular television — at least when it comes to advertising. Why? Because it can target ads the same way Google does online …

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Salahuddin Choudhary / The Official Google Blog:

Announcing Google TV: TV meets web. Web meets TV. — If there's one entertainment device that people know and love, it's the television. In fact, 4 billion people across the world watch TV and the average American spends five hours per day in front of one*.

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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Google Unwraps Its Long-Awaited TV Platform; Plans To Ship In Fall

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Dan Gillmor / NewTeeVee:
Microchanneling: One Big Implication of Google TV

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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

As CNN Considers Prime-Time Changes, Spitzer's Name Is Mentioned — As CNN scrambles to replace Campbell Brown on its wounded prime-time lineup, the most intriguing name purportedly on the channel's list is that of Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced former governor of New York.

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Jason Horowitz / Washington Post:
Will Eliot Spitzer land at CNN or host for another news outlet?

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Newsweek Sale Book: First Bids Due By June 2; Complete Financials — When the Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) announced that Newsweek was for sale, the top-line numbers we pulled out of SEC documents weren't new but they were stark. The first-quarter earnings released a couple of days later highlighted the rationale.

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Joe Pompeo / Silicon Alley Insider:

Meet Andrew Golis, The 26-Year-Old Behind Yahoo's Newsiest 57 Million Page Views (YHOO) — Ever since Yahoo! News started putting together an all-star team of journalists earlier this year, we've been curious about its plans. — For the first time, Yahoo! News actually has full-time beat writers …

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Joe Strupp / Strupp:

New York Times' Public Editor Looking Into Blumenthal Coverage — As the criticism grows over The New York Times coverage of U.S. Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, specifically claims that the Times did not offer a full version of a video in which Blumenthal falsely claimed …

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Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:

James Murdoch: Surprised By Schmidt, Search Sites Should Give Us Answers — His father took a seat - next to News International CEO Rebekah Brooks and her new iPad - to hear News Corp (NYSE: NWS) EMEA CEO James Murdoch broaden the pay-for-news debate in to a grand call to salvage the sustainability …

Discussion: Press Gazette, Guardian, paidContent and Editors Weblog

Thomas Catan / Wall Street Journal:

Bloggers Aim Posts at Regulators — WASHINGTON—U.S. trustbusters have set their sights on Silicon Valley, with a growing number of investigations targeting possible anticompetitive behavior by technology companies. Now they are having to deal with an unexpected consequence …

Discussion: mediabistro.com

Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:

Fox News targets Latinos with new website — (Reuters) - Fox News plans to launch this fall a website aimed at a Latino audience as it seeks to build its coverage and links with one of the fastest-growing U.S. communities. — Fox News, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp …

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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

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Ruth Gledhill / Times Online:

‘Articles of Faith’ translates to heart of great paywall debate — Watch The Times' digital director Gurtej Sandhu debate paywalls at the Frontline Club last night. — So will you pay or won't you? I hope enough of you do. There has been much speculation about how the new paywall will work.

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Zeke Turner / New York Observer:

‘War’ at the Four Seasons Hotel; Sarah Ellison on Her New Book and Greater New York … “I want to thank Rupert Murdoch for launching a newspaper war right in time for the launch of my book,” said Sarah Ellison, the author of War at The Wall Street Journal, last night. “Impeccable timing.”

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David Kravets / Threat Level:

Appeals Court Halts ‘Hot News’ Publishing Order — A federal appeals court on Thursday lifted a lower court's order that a well-known financial news aggregator delay publication of prominent financial analysts' buy and sell recommendations — stock picks that allowed the well-to-do the first crack …