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Politico:
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.
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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
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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.
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Guardian, Guardian, Telegraph, Press Gazette, Guido Fawkes and BBC
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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TechCrunch and The Next Web
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.
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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.
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Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Apple digs in on e-book lawsuit, says Jobs' quotes will ‘speak for themselves’
Apple digs in on e-book lawsuit, says Jobs' quotes will ‘speak for themselves’
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