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12:40 PM ET, July 26, 2010

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Jay Rosen / PressThink:
The Afghanistan War Logs Released by Wikileaks, the World's First Stateless News Organization  —  “In media history up to now, the press is free to report on what the powerful wish to keep secret because the laws of a given nation protect it.  But Wikileaks is able to report on what the powerful wish …
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Nick Davies / Guardian:
Afghanistan war logs: Story behind biggest leak in intelligence history  —  From US military computers to a cafe in Brussels, how thousands of classified papers found their way to online activists  —  Julian Assange on the Afghanistan war logs: ‘They show the true nature of this war’
New York Times:
Piecing Together the Reports, and Deciding What to Publish  —  The articles published today are based on thousands of United States military incident and intelligence reports — records of engagements, mishaps, intelligence on enemy activity and other events from the war in Afghanistan …
Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
Wikileaks May Have Just Changed the Media, Too  —  The website Wikileaks has published more than 90,000 leaked U.S. military records about the war in Afghanistan.  Marc Ambinder has a lot more about the content of the classified archive, but there's another fascinating aspect to the story …
Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
NYT defends publishing leaked military records  —  The White House condemned Sunday night's leak of more than 90,000 secret military records covering the Afghanistan War by WikiLeaks, an organization that posts secret documents online.  —  National Security Adviser Jim Jones, in a statement …
Daniel Lyons / Newsweek:
Arianna's Answer  —  The Huffington Post may have figured out the future of journalism.  But it's going to be a very difficult future.  —  Arianna Huffington at her home in July.  —  If you had to declare a winner among Internet media companies today, the victor easily would be Arianna Huffington.
Discussion: Romenesko and tag me with a spoon
David Carr / New York Times:
The Media Equation: The Provocateurs as Journalists in the Sherrod Case  —  Journalism, even in its most traditional forms, is not always neutral.  Did reporters and editors at The Washington Post spend two hard years coming up with its “Top Secret America” series, a comprehensive pat …
Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal:
At Tribune Co., Leaving Behind Bankruptcy and Old Ways  —  Tribune Co. Chief Executive Randy Michaels wants to remake the 163-year-old media company.  But first he has to steer it out of bankruptcy.  —  Mr. Michaels, a veteran radio executive, was hired by investor Sam Zell to run Tribune's Internet …
Nancy Franklin / New Yorker:
SNAPPED CABLE  —  The comings and goings at CNN.  —  It's a truism in the news business that reporters and their employers should avoid becoming the story.  It used to be a truism, anyway, but in the new world of technology and transparency that's not possible.
Discussion: Romenesko
Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:
Waking Up a Sleepy Journal  —  For years National Journal has been perfectly content as an insider's handbook to Washington, a sleepy weekly magazine written primarily for lobbyists and lawmakers that marched to its own beat.  —  Its owner, David Bradley, said that he had always found National Journal …
Discussion: On Media's Blog
Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
Tallying Up Viewers  —  Industry Group to Study How a Mobile Nation Uses Media  —  Some of the nation's biggest media companies and advertisers, seeking to develop new ways of measuring audiences, could make Apple Inc.'s iPhone the vehicle for a study of how Americans consume media on a range of devices …
Mike Shields / Mediaweek:
NBCU Creates Its Own Ad Network  —  NBCU has created its answer to an online ad network—though one comprised solely of its owned-and-operated sites.  —  Called Universal Audience Platform (UAP), the group, which will have its own logo and staff, will be headed by Nick Johnson, svp, NBCU Digital Media Sales.
Discussion: paidContent and TVWeek.com
Mike Shields / Mediaweek:
Meebo Toolbar Gaining Popularity With Publishers  —  When Meebo launched five years ago, the plan was to create a Web destination where users could aggregate all of their instant messaging communications in one place.  —  But over the past year, the company has rolled out an increasingly popular toolbar …
Devin Dwyer / ABCNEWS:
President Obama to Appear on ABC's ‘The View’  —  Will Become First Sitting U.S. President to Visit Daytime TV Talk Show  —  President Obama will become the first sitting U.S. president to visit a daytime TV talk show when he tapes an interview Wednesday with ABC's “The View.”
 
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Dish upon a star: Mel Gibson plays a pivotal role as Radar …
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