Mediagazer: Spotify vs. the Pirates (Video) (Peter Kafka/AllThingsD)

12:15 PM ET, May 31, 2012

Top News:

To GOP, blatant bias in vetting — On the front page of its Sunday edition, the New York Times gave a big spread to Ann Romney spending lots of time and tons of money on an exotic genre of horse-riding. The clear implication: The Romneys are silly rich, move in rarefied and exotic circles, and are perhaps a tad shady.

Discussion: New York Magazine, Poynter, NewsBusters.org blogs and Weekly Standard

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Letters to the DOJ: Public speaks out on e-book pricing case — As the Department of Justice's lawsuit against Apple and five big publishers for allegedly colluding to fix e-book prices moves forward, the public has the chance to respond with their take on the allegations.

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Penguin, Macmillan respond to DOJ in e-book price fixing suit

Discussion: paidContent

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Mike Daisey: Perhaps tech writers 'aren't actually journalists either?' — KQED | Mike Daisey, back with more media criticism, casts a steely eye at AllThingsD's D10 (or is that DX?) conference, currently teching it up in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. Daisey thought AllThingsD's co-executive …

Discussion: Mike Daisey, KQED News Fix, CNET, Media Decoder and Softpedia News

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Obama Video on Fox News Criticized as Attack Ad — The “Fox and Friends” video. — The Fox News Channel came under withering criticism on Wednesday for a four-minute video, broadcast on its morning show “Fox & Friends” that portrayed President Obama's tenure as a series of failed promises.

Discussion: Mediaite, Media Matters for America, The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, The Week, Media Matters for America, entertainment.time.com, New York Magazine, Erik Wemple, TVNewser, Hot Air, Baltimore Sun, AdAge, NewsBusters.org blogs, Chickaboomer, ABCNEWS and Guardian

London Evening Standard:

Jeremy Hunt on the rack over BSkyB text to James Murdoch — Jeremy Hunt sent a congratulatory text message to James Murdoch the day Vince Cable was removed from presiding over News Corp's controversial £8 billion BSkyB bid, it was revealed today.

Discussion: Guardian, Guardian, Guardian, Telegraph, Media Decoder, Press Gazette, Associated Press, Guardian, @benfenton, Guido Fawkes, New York Times, @arusbridger, @tomjharper, @tomjharper and BBC

Steve Myers / Poynter:

Will other Advance newspapers face cuts like Times-Picayune, Alabama papers? — Advance Publications' decision to cut staff and reduce printing to three days a week at its papers in New Orleans and Alabama has worried journalists at its other newspapers. Cleveland Scene's Kyle Swenson reported …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, JIMROMENESKO.COM and New York Post

Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer:

Gawker Goes Colonial with New Commenting System — Gawker Media is eyeing an international expansion to harvest licensing revenue from its shiny, new commenting system, according to an internal memo sent out by proprietor Nick Denton Wednesday afternoon. — “Our international efforts …

Meg James / Los Angeles Times:

Dish Network wins first ruling against networks in ad-skipping case — The menu for Dish Network's AutoHop commercial-skipping feature. — Dish Networks landed the first punch in its fight against broadcasters ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC over whether its new ad-skipping feature called AutoHop is legal.

Jim Romenesko:

Times-Picayune editor on reporting ambitions, salary rumors — New Orleans Times-Picayune editor's memo to staff, sent this morning: From: Jim Amoss Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 7:18 AM To: Newsroom Staff Subject: some facts Dear colleagues, In our meetings at Howard Avenue and the East Jefferson bureau …

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Spotify vs. the Pirates (Video) — Spotify has a lot of buzz and a bunch of users, but it's not a mainstream service by any means. So think of today's D10 interview with CEO Daniel Ek and investor/adviser Sean Parker as a Spotify primer: Walt Mossberg got the two men to explain exactly …

Discussion: Media Money …, TechCrunch and The Next Web

David Stringer / Associated Press:

Andy Coulson Detained For Suspected Perjury — LONDON (AP) — The former top media adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron was arrested and charged with perjury Wednesday in the trial of a flamboyant ex-Scottish lawmaker — the latest case tied to allegations of wrongdoing by British tabloid newspapers.

Discussion: @skynewsbreak

Associated Press:

Former NY Daily News editor Michael O'Neill, who led newspaper in the late 1970s, dead at 89 — NEW YORK — A former New York Daily News editor-in-chief who oversaw coverage of the city's financial crisis in the 1970s has died. Michael O'Neill was 89. — Daughter Kathryn O'Neill …

Discussion: Charles Apple