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Susan Crawford / Bloomberg:
Comcast's Time Warner Deal Is Bad for America — David Cohen, Comcast Corp.'s executive vice president and the mastermind behind its deal to buy Time Warner Cable Inc., sounded pugnacious and confident on a recent conference call with investors. Regulatory and antitrust approval of the deal …
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Guardian, TVNewser, @dankennedy_nu, Mashable, @froomkin, The New York Observer, @stevenlevy, @stevenlevy, @kpkelleher and Gigaom
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Comcast:
Time Warner Cable To Merge With Comcast Corporation To Create A World-Class Technology And Media Company — Strategic Combination Will Accelerate Delivery of Comcast's Technologically Advanced Products and Services to Time Warner Cable's Customers — Transaction Creates Multiple Pro-Consumer …
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Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:
Ready to break the internet? Netflix's “House of Cards” premiere is a big test of how video gets to you — “My wife and I like to lay in bed and watch Netflix,” Tom Wheeler, chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission, said the other day. But when their internet connection slows down …
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Techdirt, Deadline.com, @jmcduling, @pkafka, Re/code, Engadget and Wired
Lee Fang / Republic Report:
Revolving Door: Top Obama Admin Antitrust Officials Tied To Comcast — The news that cable and news giant Comcast has struck a deal to purchase Time Warner, another large cable business, has raised concerns over market concentration. Observers note that the combined company …
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The Switch, Fortune and AdExchanger
Heidi Moore / Guardian:
The Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger is not a marriage made to last — Two troubled giants, loathed by the public and facing plummeting profits, are heralding a brighter future. Don't believe the hype — In mergers, as in marriage, the couple may be running toward each other - or away from something else.
Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:
Comcast claims competition from Google Fiber, Netflix & Hulu are reasons to approve merger
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The Wrap, @gigaom, UPROXX, Vanity Fair, The Verge, Forbes, @notsalome and @agolis
Om Malik / Gigaom:
Comcast and Time Warner Cable: Forget TV, it is all about broadband
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Bloomberg:
Comcast Agrees to Buy Time Warner Cable for $45.2 Billion
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Tim Molloy / The Wrap:
Time Warner Cable CEO Sells Company a Month Into Term: ‘This Transaction Seems Very Natural to Me’
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Mediawire Daily and @edmundlee
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Comcast lists all the ways a merger with Time Warner is “pro-consumer”
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Forbes and The Technology Chronicles
Peter Weber / The Week:
There's no way Comcast will buy Time Warner Cable
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Los Angeles Times, DealBook, The New Yorker Blog, Gigaom, Variety, Forbes, @tthornb and DealBook
Michael J. Copps / Columbia Journalism Review:
Journalists need to generate a national discussion on the future of the internet — Journalists need to generate a national discussion on the future of the internet — Dear Journalists: — You may wonder why a long-time regulator like me is writing to you.
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@cjr and Boing Boing
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Katy Bachman / Adweek:
FCC Backs Off Study of Newsroom Editorial Practices — The Federal Communications Commission is quietly changing course on a controversial study after parts of the methodology were roundly criticized by GOP lawmakers and commissioner Ajit Pai for encroaching into editorial decisions and content at TV stations.
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Wall Street Journal and NationalJournal.com
Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
NBC executives tout Oympics gains, acknowledge critiques, study for 2016 — The chairman of NBC Sports, Mark Lazarus, remains adamant that timeshifting and subsequently cutting down the Sochi Olympic opening ceremonies was a good idea. — “I continue to believe, having now been in the stadium …
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Mediaite, @mikenizza, Forbes, The Wrap and The Huffington Post
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Chris Gayomali / Fast Company:
The Death Of The Spoiler Alert?
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TVNewser, Variety, @kpfallon, @niemanlab and USA Today
Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
Matt Lauer's Olympian Assignment for NBC Begins Early and Ends Late
Anupreeta Das / MoneyBeat:
Buffett's exit from Graham Holdings more closely resembles a friendly restructuring — Buffett to Graham: Parting Like Friends, With Benefits? … Warren Buffett's more-than-40-year business relationship with the Graham family could be coming to an end. But it's not clear what assets …
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Lee Siegel / New Yorker:
Is the News Replacing Literature? — In the postwar period, a generation of critics, inspired by Lionel Trilling, encapsulated the difference between high art and popular art in a single word: “complexity.” “Literature,” Trilling wrote, “is the human activity that takes the fullest …
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Kirk LaPointe's …, @raju and @culturedesk
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Wall Street Journal:
Pandora to let advertisers target listeners based on its sense of their political leanings — Internet Radio Service Builds Profiles of Its Audience — Pandora Hopes to Build Ad Revenue by Pinpointing Likely Voting Preferences — Next time you listen to a Bob Marley channel on Pandora Media Inc. …
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@wsjpersonaltech, @zeynep and @peteskomoroch
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
How digital weighs up against print for UK magazine circulations — New data from the Audit Bureau of Circulation reports combined digital and print sales for the first time with print still dominating, for now — The Audit Bureau for Circulation (ABC) has released the first ever combined print …
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WWD Media Headlines, Guardian and mUmBRELLA
India & World:
Columbia University students launch website on India's elections — New York: A group of Indian students at Columbia University here has launched a website focused exclusively on India's upcoming general elections, promising to provide a comprehensive and “no high-brow and jargon-led” reportage of the event.
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FishbowlNY
Josh Ong / The Next Web:
Editorially to shut down its collaborative writing service on May 30 — editorially 220x56 Editorially to shut down its collaborative writing service on May 30Editorially has announced plans to close its Web-based collaborative document product after failing to gain enough traction for it.
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