Mediagazer: Jeremy Hunt gives evidence

9:30 AM 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: Poynter and Weekly Standard

Guardian:

Jeremy Hunt gives evidence - live — • Special adviser given no instructions on BSkyB bid — • On day he was handed BSkyB bid, Hunt texted Murdoch — • Osborne texted Hunt ‘I hope you like our solution’ — • Hunt admits he was ‘sympathetic’ to News Corp's BSkyB bid

Discussion: Media Decoder, New York Times, Associated Press, Guardian, @arusbridger, @benfenton, @tomjharper and @tomjharper

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, Press Gazette, Telegraph, Guido Fawkes and BBC

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: Media Matters for America, New York Magazine, TVNewser, Hot Air, NewsBusters.org blogs, Baltimore Sun, The Huffington Post, Erik Wemple, The Daily Beast, ABCNEWS and Guardian

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

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

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

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: TechCrunch and The Next Web

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Penguin, Macmillan respond to DOJ in e-book price fixing suit — Penguin and Macmillan, the two publishers fighting the Department of Justice's e-book price fixing lawsuit in court, have both filed responses to the DOJ suit. — Both publishers flatly deny that they engaged in a price-fixing conspiracy with other publishers.

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Apple digs in on e-book lawsuit, says Jobs' quotes will ‘speak for themselves’

Discussion: AllThingsD, TechCrunch, Bits, CNET and 9to5Mac

Jen Doll / The Atlantic Wire:

Do Female Journalists Have a Confidence Problem? — Every couple of weeks another report comes out with a new statistic that demonstrates what we should all know by now: women writers are not being published as often as men. Except, of course, in certain areas of journalism, the “pink” ones, like service and food and style.

Discussion: Poynter

Harriet Sherwood / Guardian:

Israeli journalist to be tried over leaks that revealed illegal military killings — Haaretz's Uri Blau faces espionage charges after being passed thousands of secret documents by jailed ex-soldier Anat Kam — An Israeli journalist is to stand trial for possession of secret military documents leaked …

Discussion: Associated Press, IMEMC and Jerusalem Post

Tom Bill / Reuters:

Al Jazeera eyes new London home in Shard skyscraper — (Reuters) - Qatar-based broadcaster Al Jazeera is in advanced talks to move into London's Shard skyscraper, the tallest tower in western Europe, a source close to the deal told Reuters. The 95-storey Renzo Piano-designed glass tower …

Ben Sisario / Media Decoder:

Digital Notes: Judge Presses U.S. in Megaupload Case — When the police in New Zealand raided the headquarters of the file-sharing site Megaupload in January on behalf of the United States authorities, the case, at first, seemed strong. — In what was described as one of the largest …

Discussion: Plagiarism Today, CNET and BBC