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5:05 PM ET, August 1, 2012

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Paul Tullis / The New York Observer:
L'Affaire Lehrer: In Defense of Jonah  —  Amid the pile-on of denunciations of Jonah Lehrer, the New Yorker writer whose invention of a Bob Dylan quote was uncovered earlier this week by a contributor to the Tablet, his former editor steps up to defend him.  I was Jonah Lehrer's editor at Seed magazine …
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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Jonah Lehrer Was Going To Give A Speech On Ethics.  It's Canceled, Obviously.  —  Jonah Lehrer's fabrications have already cost him his gig at The New Yorker and an unknown number of future book sales, and now they're cutting into his lucrative sideline as a speaker.
Craig Silverman / Poynter:
4 warning signs that a promising young writer may be developing dangerous habits  —  When it was merely a matter of self-plagiarism, some saw the coverage of Jonah Lehrer's transgressions as an overheated case of schadenfreude.  —  The fact that his previous books had previously come under fire …
Charles McGrath / New York Times:
Prolific, Elegant, Acerbic Writer  —  Gore Vidal, the elegant, acerbic all-around man of letters who presided with a certain relish over what he declared to be the end of American civilization, died on Tuesday at his home in the Hollywood Hills section of Los Angeles, where he moved in 2003, after years of living in Ravello, Italy.
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Elaine Woo / Los Angeles Times:
Writer Gore Vidal, 86, has died  —  Gore Vidal, the iconoclastic writer, savvy analyst and imperious gadfly on the national conscience, has died.  He was 86.  Vidal died Tuesday at his home in the Hollywood Hills of complications of pneumonia, said nephew Burr Steers.
Brent Lang / The Wrap:
NBC May Break Even on Summer Olympics Coverage  —  NBC may break even on its coverage of the Summer Olympics in London, NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke said Wednesday on a conference call with analysts.  —  “We're way ahead of where we thought we would be,” Burke said.
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Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
NBC Takes Steps to Avoid More Spoiler Promotions
Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times:   NBC Olympic live streams aren't live, Phelps flub indicates
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Time Warner's New Strategy For CNN: To Find a New Strategy  —  Does Time Warner have a programming strategy for CNN at the ready to replace the failed one pursued by departing worldwide president Jim Walton?  It sure didn't sound like it on the media conglomerate's second-quarter earnings call.
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Michael Wolff / Guardian:
So, what's next for CNN?  —  Even CNN's outgoing chief Jim Walton isn't sure about its future.  What, if anything, could possibly put the channel back on track?  —  After way too many years, last week CNN got rid of its long time CEO Jim Walton.  Even Walton - who bills the leave-taking …
Discussion: paidContent and TVNewser
Daniel Gross / The Daily Beast:
CNN, NBC's “Today,” are big money makers. But you wouldn't know it.
Discussion: The Corsair and Erik Wemple
Gavin Polone / Vulture:
Apocalypse Nikki: Polone Challenges the Power of the Vengeful Finke  —  Starting about six years ago, I, like most people I know who work in the entertainment business, checked Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood Daily first, before perusing the other trade websites for news on the industry in which I work.
Discussion: FishbowlLA
Guy Adams / The Independent:
Twitter backs down at last - but why did I get banned?  —  In the green room at CNN's Los Angeles studio last night, a producer asked for my reaction to the still-breaking news that Twitter had decided, in their words, to “un-suspend” my account.  “I feel,” I replied, “like Nelson Mandela walking through …
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Is Twitter a publisher or a distributor? There's a crucial difference
Jessica Roy / Betabeat:
The Digg Bang Theory: Can Betaworks Make a Run on Reddit?  —  In the winter of 2004, soon after the husks of once-great dot-com startups had dried and shriveled, a 27-year-old college dropout named Kevin Rose deployed a barebones new site, simply named “Digg.”  —  It was one of the first social networks in existence.
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The Huffington Post:
2012 Election Gaffes Fuel Media Obsession, Leading To Scripted Campaigns  —  As Mitt Romney walked toward his motorcade Tuesday morning in Warsaw, Poland, Washington Post reporter Philip Rucker yelled a question in his direction: “What about your gaffes?”  Rucker didn't specify which gaffes …
Discussion: CNN, The Hill and Politico
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
How the Financial Times achieved a digital milestone  —  Five years ago I recall listening to the Financial Times's chief executive, John Ridding, as he outlined his paper's digital strategy.  It was under way by then, of course, but the FT was moving faster and more enthusiastically than many papers …
Discussion: CJR, Media Week and The Verge
 
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