Mediagazer: Fox Seeks Ban on Dish's Ad-Skip Feature Pending U.S. Trial (Joe Schneider/Bloomberg)

7:45 AM ET, August 27, 2012

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Liana B. Baker / Reuters:

Fox asks court to ban Dish's ad-skipping features — (Reuters) - Fox Broadcasting Company is asking a court to put a stop to two features on Dish's new digital video recorder that let consumers skip commercials because it is hurting the TV networks' business.

Joe Schneider / Bloomberg:

Fox Seeks Ban on Dish's Ad-Skip Feature Pending U.S. Trial — Fox Broadcasting Co., a unit of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. (NWSA), sought a preliminary court ban against Dish Network Corp.'s feature that let consumers skip commercials, saying it would lose revenue otherwise.

Amy Chozick / Media Decoder:

CNN Looks for a Boost From HBO Shows — In a bit of corporate synergy, Time Warner is planning to dip into one of its strongest cable channels, HBO, to help revive the fortunes of one of its weakest, CNN. — As part of Time Warner's attempt to reinvigorate its 24-hour cable news channel …

Dylan Byers / Politico:

NYT's Abramson rebuts Brisbane charge — The executive editor of the New York Times is disputing an accusation of liberal bias made by her very own public editor, Arthur Brisbane. — In his final column for the Times, Brisbane wrote that his fellow staffers “share a kind of political …

Discussion: @buzzfeedben and @jayrosen_nyu

Arthur S. Brisbane / New York Times:
Success and Risk as The Times Transforms

Discussion: National Review, Media Myth Alert, Hot Air, The Huffington Post, @jayrosen_nyu, @nycsouthpaw, Mediaite, @jeffjarvis, @moorehn, Politico and Pressing Issues

David Carr / New York Times:

Political Conventions Can Learn From Reality Shows — If the political conventions were managed like a typical television show that was losing audience, think of the meetings that would be held during the run-up. — TV Boss: “The cast is uninspired, the plots are unbearably boring …

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Reporters: Why are you in Tampa? — I challenge every journalist …

Discussion: @hernanri, @pkafka and @dangillmor

Julie Moos / Poynter: Tampa prepares for 15,000 journalists covering the RNC

David Streitfeld / New York Times:

Book Reviewers for Hire Meet a Demand for Online Raves — TODD RUTHERFORD was 7 years old when he first understood the nature of supply and demand. He was with a bunch of other boys, one of whom showed off a copy of Playboy to giggles and intense interest.

Discussion: Business Insider, bookforum.com and The Big Picture

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

IAC Buys About.com From NY Times Co. For $300 Million — “Invest in the Times” is the watchword at The New York Times Co. these days. Now the publisher has another $300 million to invest in its core brand, thanks to internet mogul Barry Diller. Diller's IAC has completed a deal to buy …

Discussion: New York Times

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

No, metered-content walls won't save journalism — Paywalls of all kinds have been popping up at newspapers across North America like mushrooms after a rainstorm, thanks in large part to the adoption of a metered paywall at the New York Times last year. The latest to join the cavalcade …

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Two moves that tell you everything you need to know about Twitter's future — We've been writing a lot lately about the transformation that Twitter is going through — one that has seen it shift from being a kind of real-time information utility to being a global media entity …

Discussion: paidContent

The Independent:

Angry Murdoch used Harry photos to defy Leveson — An angry Rupert Murdoch ordered The Sun to publish pictures of a naked Prince Harry against the wishes of the Royal Family because he wanted to send a warning shot to Lord Justice Leveson, sources said yesterday.

Discussion: Reuters, Gawker, Digital Spy, Guardian, BBC and TMZ.com

Aram Bakshian Jr / The National Interest:

Voice of the New Global Elite — TWENTY-FIVE YEARS ago, if you had asked a typical senior American corporate type or public official what his or her weekly reading consisted of, the answer would usually have run something like this: “Time, Newsweek and maybe U.S. News & World Report . . . oh, yes, and the Economist.”

Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Coming in the side door: The value of homepages is shifting from traffic-driver to brand — Moving on from newspapers, journalism industry soothsayers are now predicting the decline of something much younger: the homepage. — As with newspapers — which haven't so much disappeared …