Mediagazer: Glenn Beck Relaunching The Blaze As Global Libertarian News Network (McKay Coppins/BuzzFeed)

11:50 AM ET, January 9, 2013

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Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:

Even a military judge recognizes what many progressives denied: Bradley Manning was mistreated — The ruling is but the latest repudiation of claims from Obama supporters that Manning was treated fairly and justly … Few if any articles that I've written produced as much backlash …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, @freedomofpress and New York Times

David Dishneau / Associated Press:
Judge: Army GI in WikiLeaks illegally punished

Discussion: New York Magazine and Fast Company

Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Does aiding WikiLeaks equal aiding Al Qaeda?

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Tim Molloy / The Wrap:

NBC Chief Says Strategy Worked, Talks Newtown Shootings, Notes Aging CW Audience — A year to the day after he had to announce that his network had had “a really bad fall,” NBC entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt returned to the Television Critics Association winter press tour Sunday to talk …

David Bauder / Associated Press:

NBC execs say it's not a 'shoot-'em-up' network — PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — NBC executives said Sunday they are conscious about the amount of violence they air in the wake of real-life tragedies like the Connecticut school shooting, but have made no changes in what has gone on the air or what is planned.

Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:

Lance Armstrong to give ‘no-holds-barred’ interview with Oprah Winfrey amid confession claims — Lance Armstrong, the disgraced US cyclist stripped of his seven Tour de France titles last year, will breaks his silence on the doping allegations that destroyed his career in a “no-holds-barred” interview with chat show host Oprah Winfrey.

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Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:

Times Internet CEO Satyan Gajwani Discusses His Company's New Alliance With Gawker Media — Gawker Media, which already has a presence in eight countries, is expanding its international reach even further. Nick Denton, the founder of the company and blog network, announced yesterday …

Discussion: Times Internet Corporate Blog

Mathew Ingram / paidContent:
Gawker expands into India as part of Nick Denton's plan for world domination

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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Editors upset at government's change of mind over Leveson statute — Hacked Off is living up to its title. It is hacked off about what it regards as the “subversion of Leveson”. It does not trust the government and has therefore published its own draft bill.

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Janet Morrissey / Fortune:

The beginning of the end for Hulu? — The video streaming service is losing its charismatic CEO at a spectacularly bad time. — FORTUNE — It came as little surprise when Hulu's maestro Jason Kilar confirmed long-time speculation that he would be leaving his post as the video streaming giant's chief executive.

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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:

Glenn Beck Relaunching The Blaze As Global Libertarian News Network — Beck takes a shot at Fox as he expands his news network with foreign bureaus and a new show. “I consider myself a libertarian... I'm a lot closer to Penn Jillette than I am to Chuck Hagel.”

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Benjamin R. Freed / DCist:

David Gregory's Ammunition Prop to Be Investigated by D.C. Attorney General — D.C. Attorney General Irv Nathan will decide whether or not Meet the Press host David Gregory will be charged over a segment last month in which Gregory used a 30-bullet magazine as a prop.

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Nate Silver on Reddit: Pundits are ‘very delusional people’ — Superstar blogger Nate Silver took questions on Reddit Tuesday. One user asked him whether he found sports or politics “more frustrating to analyze.” Politics, Silver replied: “Between the pundits and the partisans, you're dealing with a lot of very delusional people.”

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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:

How the TV Business Got Rich Off the Thing That Was Going to the Kill It: The Internet — In TV Land, the dinosaurs still rule the world — Surely, you've heard the news: The cable business is broken, the end of TV is nigh, and it's only a matter of time before the Internet does to television …

Ami Sedghi / Guardian:

Why can't David Cameron find female political journalists to question him? — Less than one in four of parliamentary lobby reporters are female - about the same proportion as female MPs. But how many female political journalists are there and how well are women represented in the world of politics?