Mediagazer: Rumsfeld “snowflake” memos reveal struggle to control Iraq publicity (Kevin Baron/Stars & Stripes)

6:55 AM ET, July 18, 2011

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News and Its Critics — A tabloid's excesses don't tarnish thousands of other journalists. — When News Corp. and CEO Rupert Murdoch secured enough shares to buy Dow Jones & Co. four years ago, these columns welcomed our new owner and promised to stand by the same standards and principles we always had.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Guardian, Adweek, Washington Post, Newsweek, Felix Salmon, Felix, @jayrosen_nyu, @sarahlellison and @jeffjarvis

David Carr / New York Times:

Troubles That Money Can't Dispel — “Bury your mistakes,” Rupert Murdoch is fond of saying. But some mistakes don't stay buried, no matter how much money you throw at them. — Time and again in the United States and elsewhere, Mr. Murdoch's News Corporation has used blunt force spending …

Discussion: Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Adweek, Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, The Lede, Hollywood Reporter, Mogulite, Garcia Media, New York Magazine, Gothamist and ThinkProgress

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

What's next for News Corp. and its worlds — There's no telling how the News Corp. saga will turn out, but I'll try. Here's a scenario that leads to the breakup of News Corp., the Murdochs out of power, the deflation of institutional journalism, a break in the too-cozy media-government complex …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Epicenter

Channel 4:

Bernstein: phone-hacking culture created by Murdoch — Veteran Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein tells Channel 4 News that Rupert Murdoch “intimidated journalism” and created a culture of manufactured controversy and sensationalism in his newsrooms. — Carl Bernstein is one of the world's …

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Ken Auletta / News Desk:

What Murdoch Faces Now — For nearly two weeks, Rupert Murdoch and his people have claimed that the newspaper scandal in London was caused by a few rotten apples. Now that a very large apple, Rebekah Brooks, has been arrested, it is clear that it is the entire barrel that is rotten.

Discussion: Bloomberg, The Wrap, News: News blog, The Independent, New York Magazine, Guardian, Kirk LaPointe's …, The Daily Beast and Spectator

Vikram Dodd / Guardian:

How Sir Paul Stephenson's £12,000 spa break triggered downfall — Former Metropolitan police chief says he had no reason to suspect adviser of involvement in phone hacking — Sir Paul Stephenson was brought in as a safe pair of hands in December 2009 with the remit of placing …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

WSJ To News Corp. Critics: STFU — How did the Wall Street Journal, led by Rupert Murdoch's hand-picked Managing Editor Robert Thomson, follow up on the resignation of its publisher and the arrest of former top News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). exec Rebekah Brooks? With some standard news stories …

Discussion: Guardian and BBC

Guardian:

Brooks arrested over hacking allegations — Spokesman for Rebekah Brooks says she did not know she was going to be arrested when she handed in her resignation — Rebekah Brooks has been arrested by police investigating allegations of phone hacking by the News of the World and allegations …

Mohammed Abbas / Reuters:

Top police chief resigns over phone hacking — (Reuters) - Senior police chief Paul Stephenson, London's police commissioner, resigned on Sunday over allegations about the police's handling of phone hacking investigations. — In a statement he read to TV news channels …

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Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:

CNN, HLN to Stream on Web — Time Warner Networks Make Internet Simulcasts Available to Pay-TV Subscribers — Time Warner Inc. is increasing the number of TV channels and programs it pipes over the Internet to people who have conventional pay-TV subscriptions, as the television business …

Discussion: Future of Journalism and FT Tech Hub, more at Techmeme »

Virginia Heffernan / Opinionator:

The Price of Typos — Some readers like to see portraits of authors they admire, study their personal histories or hear them read aloud. I like to know whether an author can spell. Nabokov spelled beautifully. Fitzgerald was crummy at spelling, bedeviled by entry-level traps like “definate.”

Kevin Baron / Stars & Stripes:

Rumsfeld “snowflake” memos reveal struggle to control Iraq publicity — WASHINGTON - Did former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld order the military into greater danger just to spin journalists into writing more positive coverage of the Iraq War? — Judge for yourself.

Carole Cadwalladr / Guardian:

The man who made YouTube clever — With his TED Talks series, the former magazine mogul Chris Anderson has racked up 500 million web video views for speeches by academics and technological experts. But that, he says, is only the start of an educational revolution

Discussion: Future of Journalism