Mediagazer: Alec Baldwin Talks About His MSNBC Show's Sudden Cancellation (Jen Carlson/Gothamist)

10:35 AM ET, November 27, 2013

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Jen Carlson / Gothamist:

Alec Baldwin Talks About His MSNBC Show's Sudden Cancellation — Following a confrontation with paparazzi outside of his New York City home—allegedly calling a paparazzo a “c**ksucking fag”— MSNBC suspended Alec Baldwin's show, and now they have cancelled it.

Discussion: TVNewser, Business Insider, Mediaite, The Wrap, New York Magazine, Talking Points Memo, The Huffington Post and Daily Mail

Richard Johnson / Page Six:

Pack your bags, Alec! MSNBC fires Baldwin over anti-gay slurs — Alec Baldwin has been fired by MSNBC, sources say. The rage-aholic's weekly show, “Up Late With Alec Baldwin,” has been canceled because of the actor's foul-mouthed rant at a photographer he called a nasty name. “The decision has been made.

Andy Baio / Waxy.org:

Goldieblox and the Three MCs — Everyone thinks they know how copyright works, and everyone's usually wrong. Who can blame them? It's often counterintuitive, inconsistent, and riddled with grey areas and edge cases. — And no area of copyright law is more confusing than fair use …

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

GoldieBlox Goes “Girls"-Less. Did It Back Down From the Beastie Boys? (Update: Yes) — GoldieBlox is a girls'-toy startup that got a lot of attention for its YouTube ad that parodied the Beastie Boys' “Girls.” — Then it got even more attention when it preemptively sued the band for the right to use the song.

Discussion: blog.goldieblox.com, @pkafka, MediaPost, Fast Company and TeleRead

The Huffington Post:

Top-Secret Document Reveals NSA Spied On Porn Habits As Part Of Plan To Discredit ‘Radicalizers’ — WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has been gathering records of online sexual activity and evidence of visits to pornographic websites as part of a proposed plan to harm the reputations …

Jennifer Saba / Reuters:

New York Times CEO says Chinese language site under review — (Reuters) - New York Times Co Chief Executive Officer Mark Thompson said the publisher is going to keep all its money losing operations under review - including those in China - as he seeks to negotiate the newspaper's increasing shift towards a digital landscape.

Discussion: Capital New York and The Next Web

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

McClatchy updates policy on handout photos: 'it's important to take a stance' — “The editors of McClatchy newspapers have agreed not to publish photography issued by the White House,” McClatchy Vice President for News/Washington Editor Anders Gyllenhaal told staffers in an email Tuesday night.

Discussion: @poynter and National Review

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

CBS News' Lara Logan Taking Leave Of Absence Over Discredited ‘60 Minutes’ Benghazi Report — NEW YORK — Jeff Fager, chairman of CBS News and executive producer of '"60 Minutes," informed staff Tuesday that Lara Logan and her producer, Max McClellan, would be taking a leave of absence following …

Capital New York:

At Press Freedom Awards, big names and little bits of controversy — In the wake of her recently discredited Benghazi segment, CBS News correspondent Lara Logan dropped out of her hosting gig for the 2013 International Press Freedom Awards at the 11th hour.

Discussion: BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post and Mediaite

Ben Fritz / Washington Wire:

Hollywood Presses Anti-Piracy Trade Measures With Obama — LOS ANGELES-Entertainment executives meeting privately with President Barack Obama Tuesday asked him to ensure copyright protections are enshrined in new trade agreements and help facilitate better relations between Silicon Valley and Hollywood …

Discussion: @tppnews1

Steve Outing / Media Disruptus:

Paywalls in my back yard: A forecast for newspaper business models — It's now been many years that I've been writing and opining about “paywalls” for news websites. It's not a subject that's going away, although living in the Boulder-Denver, Colorado, media market, I haven't had to deal with paywalls myself.

Discussion: @niemanlab

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Q&A: The Guardian's Gabriel Dance on new tools for story and cultivating interactive journalism — Gabriel Dance thinks a lot about tools. Specifically, what tools does he have at his disposal, and what tools can he and others on the Guardian U.S. interactive team build to help them better tell a story?

Discussion: @haddadme and @amyoleary

David George-Cosh / Canada Real Time:

Rogers-NHL Deal a Blow to Canada's Public Broadcaster — Privacy Policy » Search Canada Real Time1 — Rogers Communications Inc.'s blockbuster 5.2 billion Canadian dollar ($4.93 billion) media-rights deal with the National Hockey League is a coup for Rogers, but a setback …

Discussion: Forbes

Hugo Miller / Bloomberg: Rogers Reaches $4.9 Billion NHL Deal for Broadcasting Rights

John McDuling / Quartz:

Why everyone wants to buy America's least liked cable company — Time Warner Cable is America's least liked cable provider, and its second least liked internet service provider, in terms of customer satisfaction. It's bearing the brunt of the cord-cutting phenomenon, hemorrhaging customers faster …