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2:50 PM ET, November 22, 2010

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David Carr / New York Times:
A News Corp. Newspaper, but Not in Print  —  People who own an iPad will tell you it makes everything look sexier.  Maybe even a newspaper.  —  Rupert Murdoch, an old-timey newspaper romantic, has nonetheless deputized himself as the digital savior of paid content.
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Ellen McGirt / Fast Company:
I Want My Twitter TV!  —  Blue Magic: From left, Robin Sloan, Chloe Sladden, and Ross Hoffman mash up anthropology and fun to make Twitter TV.  Photograph by Jill Greenberg  —  Why everyone — CNN, MTV, Conan, and even Google — is tweeting about the future of interactive entertainment.
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
For NBC Sale, Tensions Rise in Washington  —  Comcast is still in negotiations with the government over its proposed takeover of NBC Universal, but that did not stop the cable company from announcing a new management slate for the entertainment giant last week.
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James Robinson / Guardian:
UK papers ‘too dependent on ads’  —  Book edited by Oxford University academics also claims there is no correlation between internet use and newspaper profitability  —  British newspapers are too dependent on advertising according to a new book edited by academics at Oxford University.
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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Old Media Decides Digital Still Needs a ‘Chief’  —  Time Inc., Gannett, Clear Channel and Wenner All Seek a New ‘CDO’  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — It's a good time to be a “chief digital officer,” or at least play one inside a media organization.  After a brief heyday mid-decade …
Ben Crair / The Daily Beast:
Twitter Killed Media Criticism  —  Twitter's 140-character blasts aren't bringing down the newspapers.  They're just turning journalists into sniggering cheap-shot artists.  —  Ever since reporters started using Twitter, an old guard of newspaper hands has complained that the micro-blogging site …
Discussion: Yahoo! News
Tyler Cunningham / GTVHub.com:
Comedy Central, MTV, Nick, and other Viacom properties blocked on Google TV  —  Are we beginning to see a pattern yet?  Just when we thought (or at least we were hoping) that Fox was going to be the last major network to block Google TV, Viacom has arrived just in time to rain on our parade.
Irina Slutsky / AdAge:
YouTube Readies New Ad Units That Users Can Skip  —  New Units Will Give Consumer's Choice — Even if That Choice Is to Opt Out  —  SAN FRANCISCO (AdAge.com) — Whether it's walking out of the room, fast-forwarding on a DVR or paying for premium cable, consumers are used to having choice with ads on TV.
Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:
Netflix's secret sauce for acquiring content  —  If you're a Netflix subscriber, you should be happy with the sounds coming out of Hollywood.  —  One entertainment executive told me last week that other Web video companies looking for content should use Netflix as a model for how to work with the major studios.
Wall Street Journal:
Online TV Streams Come Under Fire  —  In the latest cat-and-mouse game between media companies and technology start-ups threatening to undermine their businesses, the big networks are intensifying their fight to stop Internet services that stream TV stations online.
Discussion: Company Town
Hendrik Hertzberg / New Yorker:
Glenn Beck's George Soros shows.  —  It's hardly news when Fox News airs something nasty.  This time, though, it's personal—or, at least, institutional.  Recently, the nation's highest-rated cable-news network's biggest star devoted three hour-long episodes of his program to an attack on a single prominent citizen.
Jason Boog / mediabistro.com:
Sloane Crosley Will Write Weekly Column at The Independent  —  After deciding to leave her post as a publicist at Vintage and Anchor, author Sloane Crosley has been hired to write a weekly column for The Independent Magazine, a Saturday supplement at the British newspaper, The Independent.
Discussion: PWxyz
Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
Fighting Unlicensed Content With Algorithms  —  It's high time to fight the theft of news-related contents, really.  A couple of weeks ago, Attributor, a US company, released the conclusions of a five-month study covering the use of unauthorized contents on the internet.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Better Advertising Project Raises Millions For Its Web Privacy Seal of Approval  —  Online advertising plus privacy is a combination that freaks a lot of people out.  For others, it's a business.  —  At least, that's the plan for Better Advertising Project, a startup that wants to serve …
Jay Rosen / Pressthink:
Resentment News (and More Blondes Per Square Foot): Explaining What Fox News Channel Is  —  Not sure whether I will continue to do these things, but I recorded my second Late Night with PressThink video.  It tries to explain “what Fox News actually is, which really means explaining it to myself...”
 
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