Mediagazer: Tim Cook hints that Apple plans to redefine the television set (Neil Hughes/AppleInsider)

11:50 AM ET, December 6, 2012

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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:

Tim Cook hints that Apple plans to redefine the television set — Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook has poured gasoline on the growing fire of speculation that his company plans to build a full-fledged television set in the near future, with comments disparaging current television sets as outdated pieces of technology.

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John Koblin / Deadspin:

Why Is An ESPN Vice President Spreading Rumors That I'm Straight? — “I don't know your personal life,” ESPN vice president and executive editor John Walsh told me, on the phone. “I wouldn't comment on anyone's personal life.” — Earlier today, on Twitter, two different journalism students …

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
John Walsh asserts a love triangle in Deadspin coverage of ESPN

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Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

Victim's family 'couldn't sleep' after seeing ‘traumatic’ NY Post subway photo — The family of Ki-Suck Han, the man immortalized in a front-page New York Post photo of his impending death on a subway track, spoke publicly on Wednesday about the impact of the image. — The New York Times reports:

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John Nichols / The Nation:

FCC Must Not Give Rupert Murdoch More Control Over US Media — We now know that top players with Rupert Murdoch's Fox News channel plotted with General David Petraeus about the prospect of using the cable network as a platform for launching a “Petraeus for President” campaign.

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Brian Lowry / Chicago Tribune: Media-ownership rules need new look

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Tina Brown promotes three at NewsBeast while staff awaits word of layoffs — Tina Brown announced three promotions this morning at the Newsweek Daily Beast Company, which is preparing to replace the Newsweek print edition with a digital-only title called Newsweek Global.

Michael Holden / Reuters:

Top UK publicist arrested in BBC sex abuse inquiry — Max Clifford, Britain's most high-profile celebrity publicist, was arrested for alleged sex crimes on Thursday by a special police unit set up in the wake of an abuse scandal involving a former BBC TV star, his lawyer said.

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Associated Press:
Police arrest BBC radio presenter Stuart Hall over rape allegations: report

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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Amazon and Google both launch Brazilian ebookstores — Both Amazon and Google launched digital bookstores in Brazil this week. The companies join Kobo in an attempt to get a piece of Brazil's nascent but quickly growing ebook market. Eighteen percent of Brazilian adults with internet access …

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Steven Jacobs / Street Fight:

Patch Adds COO as Leadership Change Continues — AOL's Patch network of hyperlocal news sites has made yet another significant change at the top, naming former Westwood One operations head Steve Kalin to the newly created position of president and COO. Kalin will take responsibility …

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Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

The Times Should Have a Reporter at the Bradley Manning Hearing — In failing to send its own reporter to cover the fascinating and important pretrial testimony of Bradley Manning, The New York Times missed the boat. — Over the past several days, as compelling testimony over the harsh treatment …

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David Dishneau / Associated Press: Bradley Manning Hearing On Confinement Resumes

Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Nominated For Grammy Award — The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences revealed on Wednesday evening that MSNBC host Rachel Maddow has been nominated for a Grammy Award. — For her audiobook recording of Drift: The Unmooring Of American Military Power …

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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

New editor for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism — The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BiJ) has a new managing editor - a former head of the Sunday Times's insight team, Christopher Hird. — He has been appointed by the BiJ's trustees in succession to Iain Overton …

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks appear at Old Bailey — David Cameron's former comms director and ex-News International head appear on charges of payments to officials — David Cameron's former communications director, Andy Coulson, and the ex-News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks …

Discussion: The Scotsman

Andrew Belonsky / T Magazine:

Oh Snap | Instagram in Print — With the dawn of the Instagram age, the time it takes to create and distribute a photograph — what sometimes used to take days — has shrunk to, well, an instant. We're now awash in a torrent of split-second events. Here to impose some permanence …