Mediagazer: Digital Ads Need to Be Clear on All Platforms, FTC Says (Susan Decker/Bloomberg)

3:20 AM ET, March 13, 2013

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Tanner Colby / Slate:

Regrettable — The troubling things I learned when I re-reported Bob Woodward's book on John Belushi. A little more than a week ago, during an interview with Politico, Bob Woodward came forward to claim he'd been threatened in an email by a “senior White House official” …

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Hillel Aron / LA Weekly:

Are the Koch Brothers Trying to Buy the Los Angeles Times? — The latest rumor about the next owner of the L.A. Times, which is for sale, is a doozy. A bombshell. It's a doozy wrapped in a bombshell exploding inside a Drudge siren. — Multiple sources tell L.A. Weekly that Charles and David Koch …

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

Kochs: No comment on Tribune rumors — Conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch are declining to confirm or deny a report that they are considering a bid for The Tribune Company papers, including the Los Angeles Times. — “As an entrepreneurial company with 60,000 employees around the world …

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Eric Wilson / New York Times:

Conde Nast Creates New Job for Anna Wintour — Anna Wintour, who will mark her 25th anniversary as the editor of Vogue magazine this summer and who for the last year has been the subject of persistent rumors about a possible ambassadorship in the Obama administration, is taking on the additional role …

Susan Decker / Bloomberg:

Digital Ads Need to Be Clear on All Platforms, FTC Says — Advertising delivered through social media or on mobile phones needs to provide clear disclosures and abide by the same requirements that apply to newspaper and television messages, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said.

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Erik Wemple:

Were FishbowlDC's ‘Wendy Wednesday’ posts just a joke? — Lawyers for FishbowlDC claim 23 defenses against the libel suit filed in January by Washington-area publicist Wendy Gordon. Devoted FishbowlDC readers will remember Gordon the star of a recurring feature—from the fall of 2011 through October 2012—titled “Wendy Wednesday.”

Mike Shields / Adweek:

Vevo Launches Linear Web Network With an Eye on Cable — Music videos are coming back to your TV, 24 hours a day. MTV has nothing to do with it. And neither do any computer algorithms. — Instead, Vevo, which was built as the ultimate on-demand hub for music videos on the Web …

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Andy Fixmer / Bloomberg:
Vevo Starts 24-Hour Ad-Supported Music Television Network

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Donna Tam / CNET:

AMC Networks launches ‘Yeah’ movie-streaming network — The cable TV network decides to focus on cult classics with established fan bases, and to set its service apart by offering bonus features such as exclusive interviews with filmmakers. — For those who like watching their favorite flicks …

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

The American Conservative, The Right's Most Unorthodox Magazine, Seizes The Moment — NEW YORK — After Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) spent 13 hours last week questioning the Obama administration's drone policy, including the legal rationale for killing a U.S. citizen linked to a terrorist group …

Raf Sanchez / Telegraph:

WikiLeaks: recording of Bradley Manning court testimony leaked — A leaked recording of Bradley Manning's testimony in a military court has given the public its first chance to hear the young soldier justifying his decision to leak hundreds of thousands of secret documents to WikiLeaks.

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Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
Finally: hear Bradley Manning in his own voice

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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Politico hits 1,000 Pro subscriptions and plans to launch a magazine — Over a thousand organizations are now using subscription site Politico Pro, the politics website announced Tuesday. Politico says the site reaches 7,000 professionals per month and has a renewal rate of 96 percent.

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Cory Doctorow / Guardian:

‘Tim Berners-Lee is wrong about DRM’ — Adding DRM to the HTML standard will have far-reaching effects, incompatible with the W3C's most important policies — After Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee's keynote talk at SXSW, he answered a question about the controversial plan to add DRM to next version of HTML.