Mediagazer: Near-Record Ratings for the Grammys. CBS Credits the Web. (Peter Kafka/AllThingsD)

12:50 AM ET, February 15, 2012

Top News:

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

NI staff demand openness over internal investigation unit — Following Sun arrests, NI staff body writes to chief executive regarding remit and scope of committee, and status of sources — The body representing News International staff is seeking an urgent meeting with chief executive Tom Mockridge …

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Ed Pilkington / Guardian:
News Corp executives at risk of US prosecution for ‘willful blindness’

Discussion: CJR, Save the News, Forbes, Erik Wemple, Law Blog, Capital New York and The New Yorker Blog

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

Discussion: Media Week, The Huffington Post, The Independent and Telegraph

Financial Times:
Murdoch puts top lawyer on Sun case

Discussion: Politico

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
News Corp. Without Newspapers Would Be Addition by Subtraction

Discussion: CJR, AdAge, Forbes and Company Town

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?

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

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk

Jack Shafer:

Media Madders — The “investigative series” that the conservative Daily Caller commenced this week about the liberal media watchdog outfit Media Matters for America and its founder David Brock accomplishes the impossible: It makes me sympathize with Media Matters and Brock.

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Big Journalism, FishbowlDC and Washington Post

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: Mediaite, TVNewser and FishbowlDC

Erik Wemple:
Fox News and the art of media-timing

Discussion: The Daily Caller and Big Journalism

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 …

Discussion: MediaPost, FishbowlNY and Associated Press

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Did the AP just declare war on news aggregators?

Discussion: CNN, 10,000 Words and TechCrunch Europe, more at Techmeme »

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

Discussion: Guardian and Poynter

Keach Hagey / Politico:

Fox News ‘course correction’ rankles some — As a white, male, middle-aged conservative talk radio host from Virginia, John Fredericks is something close to the Platonic ideal of a Fox News fan. — And until last year, he was one. But then Fox's treatment of the Republican primary race …

Discussion: TVNewser

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: Market Wire, VentureBeat, pocketnow.com, AllThingsD, Betabeat, Engadget, Forbes, Business Insider, The Verge, Adweek and TechCrunch

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

Discussion: paidContent, Home Media Magazine, Adweek, CNET, Company Town, Epicenter, TechCrunch, Multichannel and GigaOM

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: @davidfolkenflik, @davidfolkenflik and @kellymcb

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Dan Loeb Recruits Former NBC Boss Jeff Zucker for His Raid on Yahoo — Here's Dan Loeb's formal declaration of war against the old guard at Yahoo, along with his list of allies. — The activist shareholder wants four of Yahoo's board seats, one of which he wants to occupy himself.

Discussion: Business Insider, CNET, DealBook and Future of Journalism

Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:

Some best-guesses about what BuzzFeed is up to, and why it is in fact about Arianna, a little — In all the conversation about BuzzFeed, two questions and answers get repeated over and over again. But I don't think the answers have been quite right—for a mixture of reasons, probably.

Discussion: Gawker and BuzzFeed

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.

Discussion: FishbowlNY and The Huffington Post

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

UK Seize Popular Music Blog, Arrest Operators and Threaten Readers — Founded in 2008, RnBXclusive.com quickly became one of the most popular R&B / hip hop blogs. With over a quarter million fans on Facebook it was the go-to destination for many music fans.

Discussion: Techdirt, ZDNet and WebProNews

Mat Honan / Gizmodo:

Happy Valentine's Day, Tech Bloggers — There's been so much hate and self-righteous indignation in tech blog circles lately. Name calling. Ugly accusations. Petty bickering. It's even divided good friends, brother against brother. Can't we all just get along?

Discussion: @mathewi, @ryanfs, SiliconFilter, ZDNet and broadstuff, more at Techmeme »

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.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and eMedia Vitals