Mediagazer: WDRB Explains Why It Thinks ‘Breaking News’ is Broken (Kevin Eck/TVSpy)

3:30 AM ET, June 9, 2013

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Mark Hosenball / Reuters:

Government likely to open criminal probe into NSA leaks: officials — (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's administration is likely to open a criminal investigation into the leaking of highly classified documents that revealed the secret surveillance of Americans' telephone and email traffic, U.S. officials said on Friday.

Discussion: VentureBeat, Business Insider and BuzzFeed

Elizabeth Titus / Politico:

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper condemns ‘rush to publish’ — Director of National Intelligence James Clapper criticized the news media Saturday for what he called a “rush to publish” information based on “reckless” leaks about the government surveillance tool PRISM.

Discussion: Office of the Director …, The Verge, Wonkblog, Marketing Land, Slate, @felixsalmon, Democracy Now, Business Insider, USA Today and Mashable

Ed Bott / ZDNet:

The real story in the NSA scandal is the collapse of journalism — Summary: A bombshell story published in the Washington Post this week alleged that the NSA had enlisted nine tech giants, including Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Apple, in a massive program of online spying.

Discussion: CNET, The Week, @dangillmor, Marketing Land, The Next Web, The Verge, Business Insider and The Next Web

Gregory Katz / Associated Press:

Guardian making big splash in US with scoops — LONDON (AP) - Before this week, the Guardian newspaper's gradual move into the U.S. - hiring dozens of employees in the last two years — hadn't produced much of a splash in terms of scoops. In the last three days that has changed.

Discussion: Associated Press, International Business Times, @ggreenwald, @justinwolfers, @dansinker and @davelee

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Washington Post Began PRISM Story Three Weeks Ago, Heard Guardian's ‘Footsteps’ — NEW YORK — The Washington Post revealed on Thursday the existence of a secret National Security Agency program code-named PRISM, which reportedly allows the U.S. government to tap directly into the servers …

Discussion: Jack Shafer, Marketing Land, GeekWire, ProPublica, AdAge, Business Insider and CNET

Reuters:

Intel offers to pay up for Internet TV programming deals — (Reuters) - Intel Corp's talks to buy content from media companies for its new TV service are advancing, and the chipmaker is offering to pay as much as 75 percent more than traditional cable rates, people familiar with the talks said.

Discussion: @pkafka, Electronista, VentureBeat, The Verge, Gizmodo and Variety

Farhad Manjoo / Slate:

You Won't Finish This Article — Why people online don't read to the end. — She's already stopped reading — I'm going to keep this brief, because you're not going to stick around for long. I've already lost a bunch of you. For every 161 people who landed on this page, about 61 of you—38 percent—are already gone.

Discussion: HubSpot's Inbound … and The Verge

Kevin Eck / TVSpy:

WDRB Explains Why It Thinks ‘Breaking News’ is Broken — This week's post about Louisville FOX affiliate WDRB's decision to curtail its use of the term “Breaking News” collected a lot of facebook likes and stirred up a lot of discussion. — Monday, the station began airing a promo saying …

Gabriel Kahn / Mediashift:

Is Media Becoming Device Dependent? — Not long ago, I heard Hearst Corp. Magazine Chief Executive David Carey relay a remarkable development: Since the debut of the iPad Mini, paid electronic subscriptions for Hearst magazines had skyrocketed. When he said this in February …

Politico:

Roger Ailes unplugged — Roger Ailes doesn't think homosexuals are out to get him. He frequently jokes about his weight. He doesn't believe Rupert Murdoch calls him “cuckoo,” but brags that his boss does call him “paranoid” - and he's wealthier for it. If Fox News headquarters is under attack …

Discussion: TVNewser, The Huffington Post and New York Magazine