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2:40 PM ET, February 9, 2015

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David Carr / New York Times:
Brian Williams didn't satisfy the public with his weak apology, but shouldn't be fired  —  Brian Williams and Memories Retread From a Perch Too Public  —  For some time now, there have been two versions of Brian Williams.  One is an Emmy-winning, sober, talented anchor on the “NBC Nightly News” …
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
NBC's Brian Williams told varying versions of rocket fire in Israel-Hezbollah war  —  NBC News anchor Brian Williams certainly has placed himself in dangerous situations in covering wars and natural disasters over the years.  But how much danger?  With Williams, the answer varies.
Associated Press:
ABC beats Brian Williams' newscast in ratings Friday  —  1 photo  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Brian Williams' nightly newscast on NBC was beaten soundly in the ratings by ABC's “World News Tonight” on Friday, two days after Williams apologized for telling a false story about being in a helicopter hit by a grenade in Iraq 12 years ago.
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Vox and BuzzFeed to interview Obama this week, leveraging Facebook to promote the conversations  —  Vox and BuzzFeed Obtain Interviews With Obama  —  A pair of fast-growing digital media companies, Vox and BuzzFeed, have landed their first interviews with President Obama.
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Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Obama: Vox ‘for the brainiac-nerd types’  —  President Barack Obama said in an interview posted Monday that circumventing the media could be one strategy to deal with America's growing polarization.  —  “I'm not the first to observe this, but you've got the Fox News/Rush Limbaugh folks …
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Sling TV opens the floodgates, accepts sign-ups without invites  —  Sling TV, the online TV streaming service from Dish Networks, is now available to everyone: The service ended its invitation-only soft launch late Sunday night and began to accept sign-ups from everyone on its website.
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New York Times:
Hopes dwindling of Comcast-Time Warner Cable deal being approved by Washington regulators  —  Comcast-Time Warner Cable Deal Still Up in the Air a Year Later  —  Cable Giants Defend Comcast Deal Cable Giants Defend Comcast Deal  —  David Faber of CNBC questioned the chief executives …
Netflix:
Netflix starts offering service in Cuba for $7.99 a month  —  Netflix Is Available in Cuba  —  Cubans Will Gain Access to A Broad Range of Original Series, Movies, Documentaries, Stand-up Comedy Specials and TV Shows Starting At $7.99  —  Los Gatos, California, February 9, 2015 …
Nicole Levy / Capital New York:
Tablet magazine starts charging readers to comment on stories, at $2/day, $18/month, or $180/year  —  Tablet magazine starts charging commenters  —  As a number of news sites eliminate their comments sections altogether, Tablet, a daily online magazine of Jewish news and culture …
Jeremy Kessel / The Twitter Blog:
Twitter transparency report: worldwide requests by governments for user account information up 40%, 84% for content removal  —  Three years of increased #transparency ... and counting  —  Since we launched our first transparency report back in 2012, many other companies have followed suit …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
KickassTorrents loses .so home to domain name seizure, reverts to .to domain  —  KickassTorrents Taken Down By Domain Name Seizure  —  With millions of unique visitors per day KickassTorrents (KAT) is one the most used torrent sites on the Internet.  —  The site's popularity …
 
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