Mediagazer: Obama's call for net neutrality spells trouble for Time Warner Cable-Comcast deal (Aaron Pressman/Yahoo! Finance)

4:35 PM ET, November 10, 2014

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Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:

Obama tells the FCC to implement real net neutrality. And he's serious. — President Obama has come out strongly and specifically in favor of “bright-line rules” that will protect network neutrality. Now the FCC just has to write them. — Proving himself the policy nerd that pundits deride …

Aaron Pressman / Yahoo! Finance:

Obama's call for net neutrality spells trouble for Time Warner Cable-Comcast deal — The fight for an open Internet just got a lot stronger, as President Obama waded into the fray and issued a call for utility-style regulation to limit the power of phone and cable companies.

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Susan B. Glasser / Politico:

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Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:

Bloomberg explains its strategy for success in online TV — Long before Fox, CBS, or HBO debuted options for on-demand streaming video, business news-oriented cable channel Bloomberg was already available online and on many connected devices. — This, of course, is significant …

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Jordan Chariton / The Wrap:

HuffPost Live Joins Hulu Lineup (Exclusive) — HuffPost Live content launches early Monday morning on Hulu, TheWrap has learned. — The digital video arm of The Huffington Post now has its own page on Hulu, with one-hour long episodes of HuffPost Live added daily.

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Jared Malsin / Columbia Journalism Review:

Why did Iran imprison Jason Rezaian? — The Washington Post reporter has been inside Evin prison for more than three months — Everywhere he traveled in the world, Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian invited people to visit Iran, where he has lived for nearly 10 years, and reported for the Post since 2012.

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Yvonne Villarreal / Los Angeles Times:

Following The Newsroom's third and final season, Aaron Sorkin says he's done with television — Aaron Sorkin signs off from TV ... maybe — It was just after 11:30 a.m. when Aaron Sorkin rose from the hulking leather club chair in his office to light a cigarette and announce his retirement from television.

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Mandy de Waal / IJNet:

How a South African news site gives youth a voice and a vocation — Even though South Africa's census data shows youth makes up 59 percent of a 51.7 million population, news operations that cater exclusively to a young demographic are rare. — Now a news site has stepped in to fill this gap.

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John Plunkett / Guardian:

Russia Today threatened with Ofcom sanctions due to bias — Kremlin-backed news channel found guilty of breaching UK broadcasting regulations in coverage of Ukraine crisis — Russia Today has been threatened with statutory sanctions by media regulator Ofcom after the Kremlin-backed news …

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Napier Lopez / The Next Web:

Machinima rebrands its gaming network to focus on original programming — Machinima is one of the most popular hubs for gamers to get their media fix - their YouTube channel is full of original animations made using videogame models, as well as general content concerning a variety of fandoms.

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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:

BuzzFeed, ABC News to use Facebook's sentiment data as a polling source for 2016 elections — The Facebook Election — At some point in the next two years, the pollsters and ad makers who steer American presidential campaigns will be stumped: The nightly tracking polls are showing …

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Tim Cushing / Techdirt:

Islamic Extremists Use YouTube's Automated Copyright Dispute Process To Access Critics' Personal Data — YouTube's infringement reporting system is — like many others around the web — fundamentally broken. Making bogus copyright claims is still an easy way to get channels shut down or to siphon ad revenue from existing videos.