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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 …
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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.”
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.”
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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.
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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.
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Amy Sawitta Lefevre / Reuters:
Thai media chafe under post-coup blackout — 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 favourite show, it was going to be a long wait. — Half-an-hour later …
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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 …
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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.
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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.
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Ofcom finds ESPN offers audio descriptions on just 2.3% of its programs, issues £120,000 fine — ESPN fined for failing to provide enough audio description — Broadcaster to pay £120,000 after Ofcom found it provided less than half the required service for visually impaired viewers
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Capital New York:
The 60-second interview: Peter Lauria, business editor, Buzzfeed — CAPITAL: You spent five years of your career as an entertainment business reporter for The New York Post. What elements of that tabloid's old-school ethos have you brought to the newfangled Buzzfeed?
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