Mediagazer: Exclusive: Yahoo Delivering 1 Million Video Views for Washington … (Andy Plesser/Beet.TV)

Julian Assange, The Man Behind WikiLeaks — Talks To Steve Kroft About The U.S. Attempt To Indict Him And The Criticism Aimed At Him For Publishing Classified Documents — (CBS) Just a few months ago, most people had never heard of a Web site called WikiLeaks, or of its mysterious and eccentric founder, Julian Assange.

Discussion: SAI, The Firewall, Fast Company, TechCrunch, The Nation, kateoplis, The Huffington Post and New York Times, more at Techmeme »

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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

Cable companies: Add Al Jazeera English *now* — What the Gulf War was to CNN, the people's revolutions of the Middle East are to Al Jazeera English. But in the U.S., in a sad vestige of the era of Freedom Fries, hardly anyone can watch the channel on cable TV. — Cable companies: Add Al Jazeera English NOW!

Discussion: Aljazeera, Doc Searls Weblog, Poynter, The Huffington Post, Online Journalism Review, Boing Boing and ReadWriteWeb, more at Techmeme »

Cory Bergman / Lost Remote:
Anonymous on TV, Al Jazeera reporters still tweeting

Discussion: The Wire, Multichannel and Aljazeera

tag me with a spoon: This is what I meant by David Gregory being the death of broadcast news.

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:

Why I was wrong about Quora as a blogging service ... I must apologize to Dave Winer. He warned me about supporting services that aren't the open web and I wasn't willing to listen to him a month ago, because I was infatuated with a cool new service that lots of insiders were supporting.

Discussion: The Quora Review, TechCrunch, SAI, parislemon and TeleRead, more at Techmeme »

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

iPad Mags Need A New Blueprint — Ever since the iPad came out, print media companies have been feeling their way in this new medium, but so far they've just been stumbling over themselves. — They are latching onto the iPad as a new walled garden where people will somehow magically pay …

Discussion: TeleRead and VentureBeat

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

Exclusive: KIT digital Acquires KickApps, Kewego AND Kyte For $77.2 Million — TechCrunch exclusive - If you'd never heard about KIT digital before, you will after today. — The provider of cloud-based video asset management solutions has acquired not one, not two but three social software and video companies.

Discussion: paidContent, Broadcasting & Cable, MediaMemo, @rafat and GigaOM

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

Political Blogs Are Ready to Flood Campaign Trail — MANCHESTER, N.H. — Tim Pawlenty, the former Minnesota governor who is flirting with a bid for president, has none of the usual campaign accoutrements. No tour bus, campaign manager or yard signs. Few Americans, in fact, even know his name.

Discussion: Crikey

Nick Summers / @nicksumm:

Gabriel Snyder, ex-Gawker EIC, will be the next editor of theatlanticwire.com — and hire up 15 news aggregators for new NYC staff.

Discussion: @gabrielsnyder and @annaholmes

Michael Kanellos / Epicenter:

Phone, Internet, TV ... And Gas? — In Australia and a few other locations, some communications carriers have begun to experiment with bundling utility services into their cellular and cable TV packages. — The idea is both simple and radical at the same time.

About.com Journalism:

Not Every Journalist Can Be an Entrepreneur — Am I the only one who's tired of being lectured about how all journalists need to be entrepreneurs? — Jeff Jarvis has been doing this for some time, but more recently I came across this post by Robert Niles.

James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:

On the Media: Fox News ‘pollster’ Frank Luntz's sleight of phrase — GOP consultant Frank Luntz gives Fox News a room full of President Obama opponents and feeds them misleading information. — We all know by now that cable TV news provides cozy destinations for the two political poles: Liberals go to MSNBC for aid and comfort.

Nicholas Jackson / The Atlantic Online:

Is Gawker Planning to Force You to Watch Embedded Advertisements? — I was playing around on Gawker's beta test site just now and came across something a little jarring. (Yes, this is how I spend my Sunday evenings when there isn't a football game to tune in to.)

David Carr / New York Times:

A Mistake to Write Off the Weinsteins — Remember the benevolent Bruce Willis character in “The Sixth Sense” who wandered through the whole movie not knowing he was dead? That was Harvey Weinstein, except for the benevolent part. — Since forming the Weinstein Company with his brother …

Discussion: Thompson on Hollywood

Evan Rudowski / paidContent:UK:

A News Corp. Digital History Lesson For The Daily — Evan Rudowski is co-founder of SubHub, a paid content platform. He was previously an online manager at Newsday and business development director at News Corp.'s iGuide. — As I watch the coverage of Rupert Murdoch's upcoming iPad publication …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals