Mediagazer: I'm hearing: Trevor Kavanagh spoke to Murdoch on Sunday. So...Murdoch signing off on rebellion at Sun, while helping police? (Michael Wolff/@michaelwolffnyc)

10:50 AM ET, February 14, 2012

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Ed Pilkington / Guardian:

News Corp executives at risk of US prosecution for ‘willful blindness’ — American anti-corruption law holds company chiefs culpable for consciously avoiding knowledge of corrupt deeds at News Corp — News Corporation executives could be vulnerable to individual prosecution …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Law Blog, Mirror.co.uk, The New Yorker Blog and Wall Street Journal

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

News Corp. Without Newspapers Would Be Addition by Subtraction — One of the luxuries Rupert Murdoch's unchallengeable control of News Corp. affords him is not having to justify himself. That's convenient because it's become painfully obvious of late that there's no way to justify his continued attachment to newspapers.

Discussion: AdAge, Forbes, Company Town and Wall Street Journal

Michael Wolff / @michaelwolffnyc:

I'm hearing: Trevor Kavanagh spoke to Murdoch on Sunday. So...Murdoch signing off on rebellion at Sun, while helping police?

Press Gazette:
News Corp hands over journalists' sources to police

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk

NPR:

AP Sues Meltwater News Claiming Copyright Offense — NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press is suing a digital news distributor, claiming it infringed on AP copyrights. — The complaint, filed Tuesday in New York federal court, alleges that Meltwater U.S. Holding Inc. and its Meltwater News Service …

Dan Lyons / Real Dan Lyons Web Site:

Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to the Silicon Cesspool — It's tough being a journalist, especially if you're covering technology and living in Silicon Valley, because it seems as if everyone around you is getting fabulously rich while you're stuck in a job that will never, ever make you wealthy.

Discussion: ZDNet, Uncrunched, broadstuff, parislemon, TechCrunch and parislemon, more at Techmeme »

Ben Parr / Ben Parr's Entrepreneurial Musings:
Tech Blogger Catfight! Why Bloggers Attack Bloggers

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Hearst to Link Digital Editions With Amazon — Is it a magazine—or catalogue? — Magazines have been increasingly blurring the line between editorial and commerce, lending their names to products and shopping sites. Now, computer tablets and e-readers are making it more tempting to bridge that gap.

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Oprah Apologizes for Tweet Encouraging Nielsen Viewers to Tune In — Oprah Winfrey apologized on Monday for publishing a message to Twitter that encouraged people counted in Nielsen ratings to watch her cable channel, potentially influencing the ratings. — “Every 1 who can please turn …

Discussion: mediabistro.com, Digital Media Wire, The Huffington Post, Softpedia News, TVbytheNumbers and The Jane Dough

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

Julian Assange might want to trademark his face after seeing this Taiwanese advert... Last year we reported that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was seeking to trademark his name. But after seeing these images recorded by one eagle-eyed Asia-based blogger, he may want to trademark his face too.

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Free Interactive E-Book Publishing Platform—From Inkling, Not Apple — Startup iPad publisher Inkling is launching a free, cloud-based, interactive e-book publishing platform, Inkling Habitat. That may sounds a bit like iBooks Author, but a preview of the program suggests that it is indeed …

Discussion: AllThingsD and GigaOM

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Barry Diller Gets Into the “Cord-Cutting” Business — When last we heard from Bamboom, it was an interesting and also sort of confusing service that promised to let you watch TV — but only some TV — on your iPad or any other Web-connected device. — Now Bamboom is called Aereo …

Deggans / Tampa Bay Times:

Does it matter if journalists don't get the top jobs at cable newschannels? — When I talked to MSNBC president Phil Griffin about his channel's recent habit of hiring anchors of color who are not journalists for high profile jobs, he took issue with a central notion:

Discussion: The Maynard Institute

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Twitter and the incredible shrinking news cycle — In the not-so-distant past, news generally tended to travel in a few well-worn paths. It was reported by a newspaper, it appeared on television at noon or 6 p.m. or it was mentioned on a drive-time radio show — and those involved usually …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, CNN, Softpedia News, Compete Pulse, Digital Spy, The Atlantic Online and The Wall Blog, Thanks:@mathewi

Nitasha Tiku / Betabeat:

Whistleblowing Website Cryptome Hacked, Conspiracy Theories Do Not Abound — Cryptome, a sort of proto-WikiLeaks website best known for exposing the CIA analyst who found Osama Bin Laden, announced this week that its entire website had been hacked. But, in a surprising response …

Discussion: Techworld.com, Cryptome and Softpedia News, more at Techmeme »

Tucker Carlson / The Daily Caller:

Media Matters memo called for hiring private investigators ‘to look into the personal lives’ of Fox employees — A little after 1 p.m. on Sept. 29, 2009, Karl Frisch emailed a memo to his bosses, Media Matters for America founder David Brock and president Eric Burns.

Discussion: FishbowlDC

Tucker Carlson / The Daily Caller:
Inside Media Matters: Sources, memos reveal erratic behavior, close coordination with White House and news organizations

Discussion: Mediaite, Big Journalism, Washington Post, Erik Wemple, Politico, New York Magazine, TVNewser, Politico, The Awl, Chickaboomer, FishbowlDC and Inside Cable News

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Conservatives At CPAC Search For The Right's Woodward And Bernstein — WASHINGTON — While Republican candidates score points slamming the media from the stump, prominent conservatives, gathered in Washington D.C. for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, were busy encouraging young attendees to pursue journalism.

Discussion: @mlcalderone