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4:20 PM ET, January 1, 2012

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Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Rupert Murdoch joins Twitter, immediately comes under fire  —  As the world welcomed the New Year or prepared for their New Years Eve celebrations, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch decided not only would he make himself more accessible to the public, he would create himself a Twitter account.
Glyn Moody / Techdirt:
The Great Digitization Or The Great Betrayal?  —  One of the great tasks facing humanity today is digitizing the world's books and liberating the huge stores of knowledge they contain.  The technology is there - scanners are now relatively fast and cheap - but the legal framework is struggling to keep up.
Discussion: Future of Journalism and TeleRead
Nicholas Carr / Wall Street Journal:
Books That Are Never Done Being Written  —  Digital text is ushering in an era of perpetual revision and updating, for better and for worse  —  I recently got a glimpse into the future of books.  A few months ago, I dug out a handful of old essays I'd written about innovation …
Matt Jarzemsky / Wall Street Journal:
Time Warner, MSG Fail to Reach Agreement Ahead of Deadline  —  NEW YORK — Madison Square Garden Co.'s sports networks won't be available for Time Warner Cable Inc. subscribers in the new year, as the two sides were unable to resolve a dispute over programming costs.
Discussion: Reuters, Gothamist and NY Daily News
Steven Waldman / CJR:
This News Story Is Brought to You By...  Shouldn't TV news outlets admit that they offer pay-for-play?  —  One of the most disturbing trends in local TV news is the persistence of “pay for play”—when local TV newscasts allow sponsors to dictate content.  —  The Federal Communications Commission …
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Russian newspaper ‘being persecuted’  —  A Russian newspaper editor who claims his paper is being persecuted has appealed to international press freedom watchdogs for help.  —  Vitaly Shapran, editor of the Gorodskoi Vestnik, the only opposition paper published in Berdsk, Novosibirsk …
Seth Godin / The Domino Project:
How the long tail cripples bonus content/multimedia  —  The Long Tail is Chris Anderson's brilliant coinage.  If you're not up to speed on it, here you go.  —  Well, the long tail has hit the book business, and hard.  The number of ebooks published in 2012 is going to exceed a million, easily.
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Here is the news - newspaper organisations defy the digital revolution  —  At the beginning of this month, Clay Shirky offered some thoughts on how we journalists might like to think about our digital future.  —  His essay (it seems trite to describe it as a mere posting), Institutions …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Sunni leader denies NY Times byline  —  Iraqi parliament speaker Osama al-Nujaifi is denying his participation in a New York Times op-ed bearing his byline, Agence-France Press reports.  —  “The article published in the New York Times... has been written without the knowledge of speaker Nujaifi …
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Ammar Karim / Agence France Presse:   Iraq row festers as speaker denies penning op-ed
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Despite kingmaking expectations, Fox News seems neutral among GOP field  —  Even before the first Republican presidential candidates declared they were running, pundits and political operatives alike were debating the Fox News Channel's potential influence on the GOP race.
Bobbie Johnson / GigaOM:
Was 2011 the year of the great paywall?  Not exactly  —  As the year comes to a close, the media is stuffed with pundits proclaiming that 2011 was the year of something or other.  For the most part, it's easy to ignore these trend pieces: Many of them are simply chum thrown in the water …
 
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