Mediagazer: James Murdoch: Surprised By Schmidt, Search Sites Should Give Us Answers (Robert Andrews/paidContent:UK)

8:30 AM ET, May 21, 2010

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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*.

Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:

Google TV Combines Live TV, Hulu and the Rest of the Web — Google introduced its Android-based Smart TV platform at its Google I/O developer conference today, claiming that the platform will combine the best of the web with the best of TV. — Google TV Product Lead Rishi Chandra …

Discussion: paidContent, Relevant Results and TechCrunch

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

Discussion: Gizmodo, NewTeeVee, Lifehacker, PC World, Multichannel, Faster Forward and The Atlantic Online

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

Discussion: TechCrunch

Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Google TV turns on at I/O: runs Android and Flash, partnered …

Discussion: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Download Squad and MediaPost Raw

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.

Discussion: DealBook, TVNewser and Inside Cable News

Jason Horowitz / Washington Post:

Will Eliot Spitzer land at CNN or host for another news outlet? — Eliot Spitzer likes being on television. — The former New York governor often rises early to banter on MSNBC's “Morning Joe” talk show. On Monday, he taped an interview with Julie Menin, a community board activist for her show …

Discussion: TVNewser, Most Recent Home Page Posts …, MediaPost, Romenesko, mediabistro.com, AllAccess.com, Inside Cable News and New York Observer

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 …

Discussion: Media Matters for America, Most Recent Home Page Posts …, The Daily Caller, Colin McEnroe and New York Magazine

the nytpicker:
Ignore The Rumblings. …

Discussion: New York Times, msnbc.com and Ben Smith's Blog

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

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

Public Parts — That's the title of my next book about the end of privacy and the benefits of publicness. I'm delighted to tell you that I've just agreed to write it for HarperCollins, my publisher for What Would Google Do? , working again with my brilliant editor there, Ben Loehnen.

Discussion: www.thetakeaway.org and Time

Steven Church / Bloomberg:

Tribune to Seek Creditor Vote on Fraudulent-Conveyance Claims — Tribune Co. will seek a creditors' vote to settle allegations that Chairman Sam Zell and the company's lenders violated bankruptcy law and left the publisher insolvent when they organized a 2007 buyout.

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 …

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 …

Discussion: Guardian, MediaPost, Mediaite, Shaping the Future … and The Wire

Rafat Ali / paidContent:

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.

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.”

Evan Osnos / The New Yorker Blog:

Does Twitter Matter in China? — Can Twitter really tie people together in a country where it is blocked? Before writing a profile of artist Ai Weiwei—published in the magazine this week (subscribe here)—I had only a vague sense of Twitter's presence here.

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Google wants You — Google's search for a content czar has taken the Internet giant to Wall Street, where it hopes it can find someone with deep relationships in Hollywood to overcome the stigma of doing business with one of Tinseltown's arch enemies. — According to a source familiar with the matter …

Discussion: The Daily Beast