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8:40 AM ET, April 22, 2014

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Jennifer Khoury Newcomb / Comcast Voices:
Comcast Response to Netflix's Opposition to Time Warner Cable Transaction  —  Netflix's opposition to our Time Warner Cable transaction is based on inaccurate claims and arguments.  There has been no company that has had a stronger commitment to openness of the Internet than Comcast …
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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Netflix opposes Comcast-TWC merger over ‘anticompetitive’ concerns  —  Netflix has come out in opposition of Comcast's proposed purchase of Time Warner Cable, writing in a letter to shareholders that the merger would give the combined service provider “even more anticompetitive leverage” …
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Netflix Beats Expectations With 4M New Subscribers, Earnings Of 86 Cents Per Share  —  Netflix today released its first-quarter financial results, with the company beating analyst expectations.  For the first three months of the year, the company reported earnings of 86 cents per share on revenues of $1.27 billion.
Crayton Harrison / Bloomberg:
Netflix Calls Out AT&T for Lackluster Streaming Performance  —  Netflix Inc. (NFLX:US), stepping up its criticism of Internet service providers, called out AT&T Inc. (T:US) for offering video-streaming speeds that trail even those of phone companies with inferior technology.
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Jack Shafer:
Intelligence Community Directive 119, a gag order that makes the public less safe, not more  —  The top spook's stupid gag order  —  The nation's top spy has prohibited all of his spies from talking with reporters about “intelligence-related information” unless officially authorized to speak.
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Steven Aftergood / Secrecy News:
DNI bars US Intelligence Community from leaking even unclassified information to media  —  Intelligence Directive Bars Unauthorized Contacts with News Media  —  The Director of National Intelligence has forbidden most intelligence community employees from discussing “intelligence-related information” …
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Felix Salmon to Leave Reuters  —  Felix Salmon, a prominent writer at Reuters on finance and the news media, said on Monday that he was leaving the news agency.  —  Mr. Salmon declined to release details of his new job when reached by phone on Monday, but in an email sent to colleagues he explained he was …
Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:
Study: households spent 10% less at Amazon in states where online sales tax introduced  —  Amazon Sales Take a Hit in States With Online Tax  —  Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) is taking a hit in states that are collecting an online sales tax.  —  In one of the first efforts to quantify the impact …
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
NBCUniversal First-Quarter Financials Rise Amid Profitable Sochi Olympics  —  UPDATED: The Winter Olympics boosted TV ratings, revenue and profit at the entertainment company owned by cable giant Comcast, which reported its second quarterly video subscriber increase in a row.
Shahan Mufti / Columbia Journalism Review:
Pakistan's most prominent journalist shot by gunman in Karachi  —  An apparent assassination attempt on Hamid Mir illustrates the price that comes with the higher profile and influence of the news media in Pakistan  —  Pakistan's most famous and influential journalist is recovering in a hospital …
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Here comes The Upshot, the new explanatory journalism effort from the New York Times  —  Ever since Nate Silver left his perch at the New York Times and took his FiveThirtyEight blog to ESPN, where he subsequently launched an ambitious experiment aimed at data-driven journalism …
Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
Jonah Lehrer quietly launches new blog, gets Gladwell boost  —  On March 28, disgraced ex-New Yorker writer Jonah Lehrer quietly launched a blog under his own name.  —  On Thursday, he got a Twitter boost from an unlikely source.  —  “Jonah Lehrer is back with a new blog.  It is well worth reading.
 
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