Mediagazer: Netflix 1Q earnings today means nail-biting time (Greg Sandoval/CNET)

10:45 AM ET, April 23, 2012

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TV Corrects Itself, Just Not on the Air — After broadcasting an audio clip on the “Today” show about George Zimmerman last month that hit the trifecta of being misleading, incendiary and dead-bang wrong, NBC News management took serious action: it fired the producer in charge and issued …

Discussion: TVNewser, Erik Wemple, Inside Cable News, Poynter and @brianstelter

Steve Fishman / New York Magazine:

The Tabloid Turncoat — Colin Myler, the Daily News' new editor, knows his enemies at Rupert Murdoch's New York Post. Maybe too well. — Five years ago, Colin Myler, now the editor of the Daily News, received a message from Rupert Murdoch's people. At the time, Myler, a square-faced Brit, was a top editor at Murdoch's Post.

Guardian:

Myler's role at NY Daily News under scrutiny — Allegations made that Myler, when News of the World editor, told reporters to dig for dirt on MPs investigating phone hacking — Colin Myler's editorship of the New York Daily News, one of the most prominent newspapers in America …

Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:

Sky News chief apologises for misleading Leveson — Sky News editor John Ryley has apologised to the Leveson Inquiry after making a submission which stated there had been no interception of communications by its journalists. — Head of Sky News John Ryley said it was “highly unlikely” …

Discussion: Guardian and Press Gazette

Reuters:
Ofcom investigating Sky over email hacking

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Dan Sabbagh / Guardian: Leveson becomes Murdoch family affair

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

New Romney Spokesman Scrubs History Of Attacking Media — NEW YORK — Richard Grenell, a former Bush administration official who joined the Romney campaign Thursday as national security and foreign policy spokesman, appears to have deleted more than 800 of his past tweets following scrutiny …

Discussion: Washington Post and New York Magazine

Greg Sandoval / CNET:

Netflix 1Q earnings today means nail-biting time — Wall Street is seeing plenty of doubt and skepticism about Netflix's business going into the company's earnings report today. — Follow @sandoCNET — Reed Hastings is known for his cool demeanor but if there was ever a time the Netflix CEO …

Discussion: AllThingsD

Thomas Catan / Wall Street Journal:

Experts Say Government Had Little Choice in E-Books Case — WASHINGTON—The U.S. Justice Department has come under criticism since filing an antitrust lawsuit against Apple Inc. and five publishers, accusing them of colluding to fix e-book prices. — But many experts say that under antitrust law …

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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Meltwater Response To Associated Press Lawsuit: AP Is Misusing Copyright Law — We were somewhat surprised by the Associated Press' decision to sue news search engine Meltwater, because we couldn't see how the AP — even with its absurdist interpretation of copyright law — had any case.

Channel 4:

Channel 4 News team deported from Bahrain — Jonathan Miller, foreign affairs correspondent for Channel 4 News, and his team have been deported from Bahrain following their release from detention. — The correspondent, cameraman, Joe Sheffer, and producer Dave Fuller …

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Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

Google closes down online news payment system One Pass — Just over a year after launching the online payment service for news publishers Google has announced its closure — Google launched One Pass a day after Apple announced its subscription service for content-based apps

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

NimbleTV Aims to Stream TV on Devices — In a move that could hasten the slow pace of so-called TV Everywhere, a technology start-up is introducing a way to move a whole subscription's worth of TV onto the Web, with or without the subscription company's permission.

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James Ball / Guardian:

WikiLeaks supporters plan US foundation to restore funding — Whistleblowing website's backers look to break ‘bank blockade’ 500 days after Visa, MasterCard and PayPal blocked donations — High-profile US supporters of WikiLeaks are planning to establish a foundation to break the 500-day …