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7:35 AM ET, January 27, 2013

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Truth, Money, Right, Wrong — Yesterday I wrote about the ongoing CNET editorial independence issue. I said that the editors and journalists at CNET were part of the problem, and suggested that they either publish their (assumed) dissent, or resign, or both.

Discussion: @tcarmody

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

“We Are Supposed To Be Truth Tellers” — A couple of weeks ago CNET was put into an absurd situation - they could not favorably cover a technology product because the company behind that product was in litigation with CNET's parent company, CBS. — I wasn't all that interested in the story at the time.

Discussion: parislemon, @joshuatopolsky, Beyond Search, The Uptake, @jbrodkin, @bendreyfuss and Techi.com

Tim Carmody / The Verge:

CNET forbidden from reviewing Aereo following CBS-Dish controversy — Editorial policy after CES Awards nightmare leads to fancy footwork by news team — This week, live-TV startup Aereo released an update to its Roku app, adding a new visual interface and enabling full control with the Roku remote.

Discussion: Deadline.com, 9to5Mac, The Atlantic Wire, CNET, Talking Biz News, The Consumerist, @sdkstl, CNET, Daring Fireball, @learmonth and @pkafka

Jim Romenesko:
At CNET, ‘morale is plummeting and people are pissed off’

Discussion: The Verge, TechCrunch, Techdirt, plus.google.com, Boing Boing and Poynter

Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Lessons from The New York Times' app graveyard: When an app has an expiration date — The election is over. Even the inauguration is over. So it makes sense, perhaps, that The New York Times this week discontinued its Elections 2012 mobile app. — The Times launched the app some 13 months ago …

Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:

Why It's Hard for Trump — or Anyone — to Buy the N.Y. Times — Ridicule of Donald Trump has become an almost daily occurrence. This week, the mockery came after he was revealed to be the latest billionaire interested in owning the New York Times. Again, and again, and again.

Thanks:@jaredbkeller

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
New York Times Buyout Situation Still Unclear

Discussion: Talking Biz News

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
New York Times' Pilhofer: 'There's a lot of institutional memory walking out the door'

Discussion: Politico, Capital New York, mediabistro.com, @joepompeo and ZDNet

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Fox Says Its 3-Year Relationship With Palin Is Over — “Sarah, where are you?” one of Sarah Palin's 3.4 million Facebook fans wrote on her wall last week. “Has your contract with Fox ended?” another fan asked the day before. — Fox News has indeed parted ways with Ms. Palin …

Discussion: BREITBART.COM, New York Magazine, Chickaboomer, The Daily Beast, Mediaite, New York Post, The Huffington Post, Real Clear Politics, ABCNEWS, Adweek, The Week, Pressing Issues, TVNewser, Change of Subject and The Raw Story

Scott Sayare / New York Times:

Amid Algeria Siege, 2 Mauritanian News Agencies Get Scoops — PARIS — There were no reporters on hand when Islamist militants emerged from the sands of eastern Algeria last week to storm a gas facility full of international workers, and Algerian security forces cordoned off the site during …

Discussion: @mlcalderone

Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing:

Twitter suspends account of Somali Islamist militants linked to Al-Qaeda — Two days after a group of Somali islamist militants vowed to execute Kenyan hostages, and tweeted a video of a captive pleading for the Kenyan government to help free them, the Al-Shabaab Twitter account @HSMPress was suspended.

Discussion: Associated Press, Los Angeles Times and Reuters

Kathy E. Gill / MediaShift:

Who Really Owns Your Photos in Social Media? (Updated 2013 Edition) — A recent U.S. court decision clarified that media organizations cannot assume that photos shared via Twitter are rights-free, to be used as though they were in the public domain. In the case of Agence France-Presse …

Declan McCullagh / CNET:

Swartz didn't face prison until feds took over case, report says — The late Internet activist was facing a stern warning from local prosecutors. But then the U.S. Attorney's office, run by Carmen Ortiz, chose to make an example of Aaron Swartz, a new report says.

Discussion: Phlog, ij.org, Techdirt, Boston Herald and Daring Fireball

Steve Davis / Think Like an Editor:

The new newsroom — We have a media lab of the future right here in Syracuse, where the Syracuse Post-Standard is evolving into a “new newsroom,” where staffers have no desks or workspaces of their own and carry their own mini-newsroom on their backs. It's a story worth following …

Discussion: @ksablan

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Rising TV Fees Mean All Viewers Pay to Keep Sports Fans Happy — For a glimpse of how out of control sports bidding wars have become, look no further than your cable television bill. — Time Warner Cable subscribers in Southern California will eventually see their monthly bills increase thanks …

Discussion: Technology Liberation Front and Deadspin