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Julien Girault / Agence France-Presse:
China seeks to wipe Tiananmen from popular memory — Beijing (AFP) - China's vast censorship machine does its utmost to wipe the slightest reference to the Tiananmen crackdown from books, television and the Internet, scrubbing the issue from public discussion and even from the minds of its younger generation.
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@antderosa, Quartz, Washington Post, Techdirt and The New Yorker Blog
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Joseph Weber / Washington Post:
Chinese journalists are beginning to fight their government's censorship — Given a chance, many would write about the Tiananmen Massacre 25 years ago this week. — China's effort to choke dissent didn't begin 25 years ago Wednesday with the Tiananmen Square massacre.
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Kirk LaPointe's … and Columbia Journalism Review
Rose Powell / Sydney Morning Herald:
Tiananmen Square massacre anniversary: China chokes Google, social chatter — Chinese citizens are facing an even tougher internet firewall as the ruling Communist party tries to enforce silence and amnesia on a seething nation striving to grieve and commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
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Wall Street Journal, New York Times, BBC, @dumblydore, Channel 4, Arirang, @apixelshort, Bloomberg, Forbes and Tech in Asia
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Netflix Nags Another New Partner, Blaming Verizon for Slow Streams — Earlier this year Netflix signed a Web traffic deal with Comcast, then complained about it. — Here's a new version of the story: In April, Netflix signed a Web traffic deal with Verizon.
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@yurivictor, @jsf33, Multichannel News, Mashable, Gizmodo, Variety, The Verge, @xpangler, Business Insider and Quartz
Andrew Rosenthal / New York Times:
NYT launches NYT Opinion, a $6/month subscription and app for op-eds, editorials, and curated online commentary — Announcing NYT Opinion — Today, I'm proud to say, we are launching NYT Opinion. It's the first time we have offered a stand-alone subscription to all of The New York …
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FishbowlNY, Guardian, TechCrunch, New York Times, @edmundlee, @yancyfaith, @henryctaylor, The Next Web and Gizmodo
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
AT&T Says Bulking Up With DirecTV Will Help It Squash Programming Costs — The guys who sell you pay TV say they wish they didn't have to keep raising your rates. It's just that the guys selling pay-TV programming keep raising their rates. — In theory, one way to stop or slow those hikes …
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Reuters, Bloomberg, DSLreports, FierceCable, The Wrap, Variety and Broadcasting & Cable
Peter Y. Hong / LA Weekly:
At LA Times, Dean Baquet sought out stories that had been killed and resurrected them — At the L.A. Times, Dean Baquet Dispatched a Strike Force to Rescue Stories Held Hostage — In 2000, a few months after Dean Baquet became managing editor of the Los Angeles Times …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Why 'C7′ Won't Become TV's Standard This Year (And Maybe Not Even Next) — Analysis: Time-shifted viewers have value, but not to everyone — Does all of Madison Avenue believe in the value of TV viewers who see commercials up to a week after their initial run date, or is that interest found only in a few houses on the street?
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AdAge
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
CNN to double digital politics staff for 2016 — Ed O'Keefe was recently hired by CNN to boost the network's digital coverage of politics, a task he's not going to undertake alone. — “If you're a top talent in D.C., expect to get a call from CNN politics,” says the 36-year-old O'Keefe …
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@khinman, @peterhambycnn, @dylanbyers, FishbowlDC, @mdornic, @kevinmaddendc, @dorseyshaw and @niemanlab
Marwaan Macan-Markar / Nikkei Asian Review:
Thai coup darkens dawn of digital TV — BANGKOK — Gleaming new television studios across Bangkok were preparing to unveil a slew of fresh programs to launch Thailand's digital broadcasting age. The big day was May 25, when 24 commercial stations, which had invested billions of baht …
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nationmultimedia.com and Bangkok Post
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Phone-hacking trial: jury told not to be ‘dazzled’ by defendants' lifestyle — Judge sums up in trial of Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and others, saying ‘no one is so powerful they can ignore the law’ — The jury in the phone-hacking trial has been told not to envy the lifestyle enjoyed …
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@lisaocarroll and @robindbrant
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
UK Gov't Tries And Fails To Hide Details Of GHCQ/Telecoms Tapping Fiber Lines — Apparently, the UK government worked very hard to get the Guardian and others not to publish certain details about how GCHQ (and NSA) tap certain underwater cables that connect the internet around the globe …
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The Register and @csoghoian
Nate Rau / Tennessean.com:
DOJ opens review of ASCAP, BMI consent decrees — The Department of Justice is conducting a review of the consent decree governing the nation's largest performance rights organizations, a critical development amid the ongoing debate over copyright reform. — ASCAP last had its consent decree …
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New York Times, Billboard, Music Week, @alisdairbirch, @tnnaterau, Bloomberg, The Hill and Wall Street Journal
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