Mediagazer: Barry Diller Gets Into the “Cord-Cutting” Business (Peter Kafka/AllThingsD)

1:10 PM 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: Capital New York, Law Blog, Mirror.co.uk, The New Yorker Blog, Wall Street Journal and The Independent

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: Forbes, AdAge, Company Town and Wall Street Journal

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
News Corp inquiry team defends policy over police disclosures

Discussion: The Huffington Post, The Independent, Telegraph and Reuters

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

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk and The Journalism Foundation

Sean O'Neill / @timescrime: Have confirmed that senior Met officers have “reviewed” their arrest strategy in Weeting and Elveden. Dawn raids will now be the norm...

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

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

New Service Will Stream Local TV Stations in New York — A online television company has come up with a way to stream local television stations to paying subscribers on the Internet, potentially forming a new cord-cutting threat for cable and satellite distributors.

Discussion: Adweek, The Verge and Business Insider

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 …

Discussion: TechCrunch and GigaOM, more at Techmeme »

Glenn Garvin / Miami Herald:

The profound lies of Deep Throat — Kids say the darndest things. Speaking to a college journalism class last week, I learned the students had recently seen the All The President's Men, the film noir tale of the Washington Post's pursuit of the Watergate scandal.

Discussion: @kellymcb, @davidfolkenflik and @davidfolkenflik

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.

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: Capital New York, FishbowlDC and Washington Post

Jeff Roberts / paidContent:

Fair Use Or Free Riding? The AP's New Attack On News Scraping — The Associated Press is becoming more aggressive in trying to rein in the information the news service scatters around the world. After helping to launch a copyright monitoring service, the AP is now suing a company …

Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Interviews: Meltwater Appeals UK Web News Fees As Both Sides Claim Victory

Discussion: NPR, FishbowlNY and Poynter

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Ethan Bronner out as NYT Jerusalem chief — One year after the New York Times public editor recommended his reassignment, Ethan Bronner is being replaced as Jerusalem bureau chief. — Today, the Times announced that Education editor Jodi Rudoren has been named Jerusalem bureau chief.

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, The Awl, Company Town, parislemon, Uncrunched, broadstuff, Talking Biz News, CNET, TechCrunch and parislemon, more at Techmeme »

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

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb

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: Sparksheet, TechCrunch, AllThingsD and GigaOM, more at Techmeme »

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 …