Mediagazer: U.S. criticizes Cuba over blocking of dissident website (Reuters)

9:15 AM ET, May 23, 2014

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Michael Kinsley / New York Times:

In review of Greenwald book, Kinsley says government should choose which secrets to release — ‘No Place to Hide,’ by Glenn Greenwald — “My position was straightforward,” Glenn Greenwald writes. “By ordering illegal eavesdropping, the president had committed crimes and should be held accountable for them.”

Erik Wemple / Washington Post:

Kinsley's review attacks Greenwald and the First Amendment that allows secrets to emerge — Michael Kinsley on Glenn Greenwald: He ‘cannot’ decide what secrets get published — Michael Kinsley, always a provocative thinker, has done quite a bit of provoking in his just-published …

Discussion: @danielellsberg, @i_hay, @readthis140, @davewiner, @xor, @ggreenwald, @froomkin, Scripting News, @dangillmor, Freedom of the Press …, The Newspaper Guild, CNNMoney.com and The Daily Banter

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Newspapers are ‘hollowed out’ and ‘VICE is the savior of news,’ says guy from Facebook — Facebook's Mike Hudack published a rant “about the state of the media” on his page Thursday. Some choice moments: — CNN is “the network of kidnapped white girls.”

Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:

Why A Facebook Employee Just Scared The Hell Out Of The Media — Facebook's director of product, attacked state of today's media landscape. As observers quickly noted, however, it appears lost on him that the company he works for is perhaps most to blame.

Discussion: Gigaom, Mother Jones, Daily Dot, @antderosa, Slate, @obrien, @mathewi, @rbole, @cwarzel, @meganpaolone, @dannysullivan and @cwarzel

Alex Howard / semper scriben: Where journalism, Facebook's algorithm and responsibiliy lie

Robert Mackey / New York Times:

Twitter Agrees to Block ‘Blasphemous’ Tweets in Pakistan — At least five times this month, a Pakistani bureaucrat who works from a colonial-era barracks in Karachi, just down the street from the former home of his country's secularist founder, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, asked Twitter to shield …

Discussion: Sky News, Techdirt, Times LIVE, AHRC News, DAWN.COM, The Daily Beast, Electronic Frontier Foundation, The Verge and TechCrunch

Jon Boone / Guardian:
Pakistan's Geo News becomes latest target in blasphemy accusation trend

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Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:

CNN, Other Broadcasters Go Dark In Thailand After Coup — BANGKOK, May 23 (Reuters) - Television screens went blue and up flashed the army's emblem, normal programming stopped and Thailand held its breath. For anyone looking forward to their favorite show, it was going to be a long wait.

Discussion: Variety, Inquirer News and Mashable

Agence France-Presse:

Thai Army Warns It Will Block Social Media if Critical Content Is Found — Thailand's new ruling junta on Friday warned it would block any social media platforms in the country found to carry content that incites violence or is critical of its military leaders.

Discussion: CNN, Quartz, ITV, Eurasia Review, Boing Boing, The Next Web and The Voice of Russia, News

David Streitfeld / New York Times:

Amazon escalates battle with Hachette, refuses coming book orders, lists some as unavailable — Amazon Escalates Its Battle Against Hachette — Amazon, under fire in much of the literary community for energetically discouraging customers from buying books from the publisher Hachette, has abruptly escalated the battle.

Discussion: Publishers Lunch, New York Times, Observation Deck, @laurahazardowen, @kevinhearne, Bookseller news and The Awl

Agence France-Presse:

News Corp chief says print ‘crucial’ to company future — AFP News Corp chief says print ‘crucial’ to company future — Sydney (AFP) - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. on Friday issued a strong statement of support for newspapers, with chief executive Robert Thomson saying they had a crucial role in the group's multimedia future.

Reuters:

U.S. criticizes Cuba over blocking of dissident website — (Reuters) - The United States criticized Cuban censorship on Thursday after Cubans were blocked from an independent website that is challenging the state monopoly on news on the island. — Dissident Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez …

Discussion: Associated Press, Committee to Protect … and HispanicallySpeakingNews.com

Lucia Moses / Digiday:

Bloomberg gives its native ads a data spin — Data journalism is getting the native ad treatment. — Bloomberg LP, best known for its financial news and information, has launched a new suite of native ad products that tap into its data-crunching abilities.

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:

TVTY Raises $4.5 Million To Sync TV And Online Ads — French startup TVTY raised $4.5 million from Partech Ventures, 360 Capital Partners and business angels. This is yet another sign that French companies' efforts to advertise technology have been doing very well.

Discussion: VentureBeat

Jack Smith IV / Betabeat:

The Netflix For Children's Books Adds 1000 Titles From HarperCollins — Epic! gamifies reading, giving kids badges and rewards to get them hooked on books. — Epic!, a subscription app for children's books, just closed a deal with HarperCollins that will give its subscribers access to over 1000 books …

Discussion: FishbowlNY and Forbes