Mediagazer: Politico defends ‘New York girlfriend’ post (Erik Wemple)

11:20 AM ET, May 3, 2012

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson to face Leveson inquiry — Andy Coulson, David Cameron's former spin doctor, is to appear at the Leveson inquiry next week along with Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International. Coulson is appearing on Thursday, along …

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Tom Watson accuses Louise Mensch of tabling pro-Murdoch amendments — Labour MP Tom Watson has accused Conservative select committee colleague Louise Mensch of tabling amendments that would have “exonerated” James Murdoch in its controversial phone hacking report following a personal intervention …

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Tom Harper / London Evening Standard:
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
News Corporation was given private select committee details, suggests Tom Watson

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David Carr / Media Decoder:
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Ryan Chittum / CJR:
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Josh Smith / Tech Daily Dose:
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Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
News Corp. Says It Has ‘Full Confidence’ In Rupert Murdoch

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Romney Woos Conservative Media In Private Meeting — NEW YORK — In an effort to reach out to conservative media, presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney and wife Ann met for two hours Wednesday with several dozen conservative bloggers, reporters and columnists in an off-the-record gathering …

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

News Orgs Balk At Romney Campaign Deciding Press Pool Membership — NEW YORK — News organizations pushed back Wednesday after Mitt Romney's campaign decided the website BuzzFeed should be excluded from a rotating press pool, a group in which one member covers an event and produces a report shared among others in the pool.

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Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers:

Romney campaign backs off... BuzzFeed to stay in the Romney press pool...

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

CNN Ratings Decline Stirs Worries — That is what a longtime CNN employee theorized last year, during one of the channel's predictable defeats in the Nielsen ratings. When elections and explosions happen, people tune in to CNN, the same way they hurry to a hospital when they think they are having a heart attack.

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Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:

CNN Feels Heat on Ratings Weakness — The last time there was a presidential election, CNN made television history by beating every other network in the ratings on election night. — It is shaping up to be a different story this year. CNN's two main rivals Fox News and MSNBC have gained viewers …

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Craig Silverman / Poynter:

How Politico can fix its mistake about Obama book — If an error in your reporting gives birth to a false rumor, do you have a responsibility to knock down that rumor? — Questions like this are being pondered more than ever before in newsrooms. When do journalists have a responsibility …

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Erik Wemple:

Politico defends ‘New York girlfriend’ post — Above is a screen-shot of DrudgeReport.com earlier today, linking to a story about President Obama's past. Pretty exciting stuff: “Obama Admits Fabricating Girlfriend in Memoir.” — Those who jumped on that link reached a Politico story with this headline …

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Los Angeles Times:

Billionaire Eli Broad signals interest in buying L.A. Times — Five years after his partnership lost a bid to buy Tribune Co.and the Los Angeles Times, billionaire businessman Eli Broad said he remains interested in joining with others to restore local ownership to The Times.

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Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

Another Misleading Edit Costs Another NBC News Employee Her Job — Lilia Luciano, a Miami-based NBC News correspondent, is no longer working for the network, TVNewser has learned. — Luciano last reported for NBC News March 31. Until that point, she had been reporting mainly on the Trayvon Martin story.

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Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

Revived Google Books case chugs onwards — More than a year after Judge Denny Chin blew up an epic settlement agreement, Google and the Authors Guild are back in court today. — The Guild is suing its former partner for scanning books without permission while a group representing photographers …

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Daniel Frankel / paidContent:

Demand and Google leave farm fight behind with “premium” YouTube channels — It was only about 14 months ago that Google made headlines for targeting Demand Media with algorithmic pesticides, classifying the Santa Monica, Calif.-based company's freelancer-produced content …

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