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Edward Wyatt / DealBook:
Industry Shifts May Aid Comcast in Takeover Bid  —  On the face of it, the merger of the country's two largest cable companies would seem like a nonstarter, given its steep regulatory hurdles and skepticism from consumer watchdogs.  —  But Comcast's proposed acquisition of Time Warner Cable comes …
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 …
Amy Schatz / Re/code:
Peering could replace net neutrality as one of the key issues in Comcast-Time Warner review  —  Sleeper Issue Peers Around the Corner of Comcast-Time Warner Deal  —  Comcast executives scored big points three years ago with the Federal Communications Commission by volunteering to abide …
Discussion: Deadline.com
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 …
Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal:
Charter Likely to Pursue Other Acquisitions  —  Cable Operator Unlikely to Counterbid for Time Warner Cable After Comcast's Offer  —  With cable's top two operators hooking up, rival Charter Communications Inc. is likely to look at other suitors, said people familiar with the company's thinking.
Discussion: MoneyBeat and Law Blog
Katy Bachman / Adweek:
FCC Backs Off Study of Newsroom Editorial Practices
Lance Ulanoff / Mashable:   The National Domination of Comcast and Time Warner in 1 Map
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Comcast lists all the ways a merger with Time Warner is “pro-consumer”
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Twitter Photos Blocked In Venezuela, Users Say  —  A social media crackdown as protests threaten the government.  —  WASHINGTON — Twitter photos and videos appear to be blocked in Venezuela as the government there attempts to reassert control amid widespread public protests.
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. …
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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Alan Jacobs / Text Patterns:
Today's email newsletters follow Grimm's precedent, who aimed for a “fit audience, though few”  —  Grimm's heirs  —  The last year or so has seen an intriguing renewal of a genre from the early years of the internet: the email newsletter.  A couple of months ago Alexis Madrigal described …
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.
Discussion: 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.
Discussion: STET
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 …
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 …
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 …
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
New York Times Magazine editor search nears end  —  The hunt for the next editor of The New York Times Magazine is entering the home stretch, Capital has learned.  —  Sources familiar with the process said the search has been narrowed down to a handful of internal and external candidates …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Reporters condemn Senate for silent vote  —  The Capitol Hill press corps is strongly condemning how the Senate handled a critical roll call vote on raising the debt ceiling Wednesday.  —  During a highly dramatic vote, the Senate clerk remained silent as senators submitted their votes …
 
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