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6:00 PM ET, December 27, 2013

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RT:
Greenwald: US and British media are servants of security apparatus  —  Journalist Glenn Greenwald condemned the mainstream media during an address at a German computer conference on Friday and accused his colleagues of failing to challenge erroneous remarks routinely made by government officials around the globe.
Discussion: Mediaite and The Register
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Tribune closes $2.7B Local TV acquisition … Tribune Co. has closed on its $2.73 billion acquisition of Local TV, making it one of the country's largest television station owners, the company announced Friday.  —  The deal, which was approved by the Federal Communications Commission last week …
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Steve Eder / New York Times:
ESPN received $260M in tax breaks and credits over 12 years to remain in Connecticut  —  For ESPN, Millions to Remain in Connecticut  —  BRISTOL, Conn. — The governor of Connecticut arrived at ESPN's expansive campus here to celebrate the groundbreaking of the sports media giant's 19th building …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Game of Thrones tops 2013 BitTorrent downloads as piracy debate continues within TV networks  —  ‘Game of Thrones’ Most Pirated TV-Show of 2013  —  Game of Thrones has the honor of becoming the most downloaded TV-show for the second year in a row.  —  With 5.9 million downloads via BitTorrent …
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Rdio Shuts Down Video-Streaming Site Vdio, Offers Amazon Credits As Reimbursement For Purchases  —  It's only been six months since Rdio launched its video-streaming platform Vdio to the world, but it appears that the company has already decided to give up on that experiment.
Andy / TorrentFreak:
Major Recording Labels Prepare to Sue Russia's Facebook  —  For several years, vKontakte, Russia's social networking giant, has been marked as a piracy enabler by rightsholders and even the U.S. Government.  —  In several Special 301 Reports published by the United States Trade Representative …
Barbara Ortutay / Associated Press:
Bye bye, bile?  Websites try to nix nasty comments  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Mix blatant bigotry with poor spelling.  Add a dash of ALL CAPS.  Top it off with a violent threat.  And there you have it: A recipe for the worst of online comments, scourge of the Internet.  —  Blame anonymity, blame politicians, blame human nature.
Discussion: bizjournals and Mediaite
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Sherlock Holmes and John Watson aren't protected by copyright, US court rules  —  Sherlock Holmes' status as a copyrighted character is easily as complicated as any of the cases he's had to solve.  Created over 125 years ago, Holmes would remain a fixture in author Arthur Conan Doyle's work until the late 1920s.
Discussion: ArtsBeat, Open Culture and Guardian
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Upcoming DJX news offering and integration with WSJ newsroom make 2014 critical for Dow Jones  —  Dow Jones' ‘make or break’ 2014  —  Dow Jones is gearing up for a potentially pivotal 2014.  —  The 131-year-old financial information and media company, which publishes The Wall Street Journal …
The Stream:
New report exposes digital front of Syria's civil war … Washington D.C.  —  Adults and children alike flock to the U.S. Botanical Garden in Washington, DC to see the model train display  —  A growing number of Americans don't identify with a religion.  Some see Christmas as a cultural, not religious, holiday.
Discussion: @headhntr and @azmatzahra
Jeremy Barr / Poynter:
As fewer people read newspapers, more share their front pages  —  Newspapers are dying.  But their front pages aren't.  —  At a time when print advertising revenue continues to decline and publications are laying off staff in droves, newspaper covers are increasingly being shared digitally …
 
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Discussion: Mediashift, Slate and GalleyCat
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Reuters:
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Discussion: United Nations and AAP
Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
Decrypting TV's year-end executive memos
Merril Brown / Forbes:
Patch's Biggest Blunder: Ignoring Cities
Discussion: Street Fight