Mediagazer: On Rupert Murdoch's performance before Parliament: Shockingly bad, or routine? (Tom McGeveran/Capital New York)

12:05 AM ET, July 20, 2011

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BBC:

Phone hacking: Rupert Murdoch ‘humbled’ by MPs' probe — Rupert and James Murdoch are likely to be asked what took place at the News of the World — Rupert Murdoch has said his appearance before MPs to answer questions about phone hacking is the “most humble day of his life”.

Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:

The Statement The Murdochs Wanted To Make Before The MPs Said No — Before MPs kicked off their phone hacking questions for James and Rupert Murdoch today, James asked John Whittingdale, the chair of the Commons Committee on Culture, Media and Sport, if he could read out a statement—another apology.

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John Plunkett / Guardian:

Brooks: hacking payments not my remit — Former News International chief says News of the World's managing editor approved payments to private detectives — The former News International chief executive, Rebekah Brooks, has deflected MPs' questions about the News of the World's payments …

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Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:

On Rupert Murdoch's performance before Parliament: Shockingly bad, or routine? — To many of us, Rupert Murdoch's testimony before Parliament today—much of which has so far involved mumbled, slowly delivered monosyllables, admissions of not knowing important details about the phone-hacking scandals …

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John Cook / Gawker:
Rupert Murdoch Has Left the Building

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Dominic Rushe / Guardian:
News Corp's independent directors hire own legal team over phone hacking

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Murdoch & Son Visit Parliament and Return With a Big Helping Of Humble (and Shaving Cream) Pie

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Legalweek:
Harbottle defends Hackgate position; Grabiner to lead News Corp clean-up

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Burgess Everett / On Media's Blog:
Piers Morgan takes on tabloid scandal

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Nick Robinson / BBC: From inside the Murdoch hearing

Reuters:
Special report: Rupert Murdoch, a hands-on newspaperman

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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
How News Corp. Will Change After the Hacking Scandal

Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Rupert Murdoch has board backing

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Bloomberg:

Microsoft Said to Drop Out of Hulu Auction — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is dropping out of the bidding for Hulu LLC, the online video service put up for sale by its media-company owners, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. — Microsoft, based in Redmond, Washington …

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Andy Fixmer / Bloomberg:

Hulu Owners Offer 5-Year Show Extension — Hulu LLC, the online video service seeking bids, plans to offer suitors five years of access to shows from its media-company owners, including two years of exclusivity, two people with knowledge of the situation said.

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Paul Ford / New York Magazine:

Facebook and the Epiphanator: An End to Endings? — I do not enjoy Facebook — I find it cloying and impossible — but I am there every day. Last year I watched a friend struggle through breast cancer treatment in front of hundreds of friends. She broadcast her news with caution …

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Verne G. Kopytoff / New York Times:

Scribd Creates a Paid News Site — Relatively few people are willing to pay for an online newspaper or magazine. But what if they could pay a monthly fee for a vast library of news, like Netflix's subscription service for movies? — Scribd, a Web site that lets users share reports …

Discussion: paidContent and AllThingsD

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
With Float, Scribd Hopes To Become The Netflix Of Reading

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Time Magazine Rolls Out Print/Digital Subscriptions — And Puts Up Another Web Pay Wall — Time magazine is making it easier for readers to subscribe to its digital and print editions. And it is making it harder for non-subscribers to read the magazine on the Web.

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Michael Crowley / Swampland:

Reporter Accosted After Bachmann Comments on Migraines — It's not easy to get to Michele Bachmann. Her appearance at a rally on Tuesday in Aiken, South Carolina, attended by perhaps 150 people, featured three uniformed police officers and two body guards in plain clothes.

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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:

Frustrated judge pushes Google digital book deal — (Reuters) - A Manhattan federal judge set a September 15 deadline for Google Inc, authors and publishers to come up with a legal plan to create the world's largest digital library, expressing frustration that the six-year-old dispute has not been resolved.

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

The Good Ol' Days of 20 Years Ago — Are 18- to 34-year-olds too young to be nostalgic? — Evidently not. — Starting next Monday, TeenNick, part of the Nickelodeon family of cable channels for children, will start rebroadcasting old series from the 1990s that are considered classics by young adults.

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Martin Langeveld / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Tackable, BANG collaborate on a location-based digital newspaper — Ever since he was a beat reporter at the Palo Alto Daily News and the Contra Costa Times, Luke Stangel has been thinking about how to improve finding and consuming news by adding more specific location data to news content.

Steven Jacobs / Street Fight:

Metro Publisher: Building a CMS for Hyperlocals — Two years ago, publishing consultancy firm Vangaurdistas saw a demand by small and medium-sized publishers for a CMS capable of integrating more dynamic digital content. In response, it created Metro Publisher, which has now created …