Mediagazer: Hactivists Spoof the New York Times, Mainstream Media Miss the Point (Fruzsina Eördögh/ReadWriteWeb)

3:30 PM ET, July 31, 2012

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London Olympics 2012: Twitter 'alerted NBC to British journalist's critical tweets' — Users of the social network vented their anger against Twitter yesterday after Guy Adams, a foreign correspondent for the Independent, was suspended without warning from the site after posting a series …

Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:

Twitter restores reporter's account, tweet with NBC email remains — Two days after his account was suspended, the U.K. reporter who touched off a media kerfuffle about corporate control of speech is back on Twitter. The Independent's Guy Adams, who made his name bashing NBC's Olympic coverage …

Discussion: @producermatthew, @ianbetteridge, Mashable! and eMedia Vitals

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

twitterfail ethics & economics — Twitter is going to have to learn the lesson that newspapers had to learn when they started accepting advertising: that when trust is your asset, you must run your service and your business according to principles of trust.

Discussion: CJR, Forbes, National Review, TechCrunch, Wired, Examiner and GigaOM

Guy Adams / The Independent:

I thought the internet age had ended this kind of censorship — Here are three things that NBC prevented their public from being able to watch on network television so far this Olympic Games: live footage of the opening ceremony; live footage of Saturday's swimming showdown between Michael Phelps …

Discussion: Forbes, TechCrunch, Los Angeles Times, NBC Universal, Wired.co.uk, Journalism.co.uk, CNET, BetaNews, GigaOM, Guardian and Felix

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

Guy Adams suspension, now lifted, punctuates Twitter censorship evolution — By now you know the story of Guy Adams — the British journalist for The Independent whose Twitter account was suspended after he torrentially criticized NBC's Olympics coverage and tweeted an executive's email address.

Discussion: Washington Post, VentureBeat, Business Insider and The Next Web

Kashmir Hill / Forbes:
NBC Is The Real Loser In Guy Adams v. Twitter

Discussion: Wall Street Journal and CNET

Steve Myers / Poynter:

WNYC: No reason to believe that Jonah Lehrer's work for ‘Radiolab’ is compromised — In addition to being a bestselling author and a New Yorker blogger, Jonah Lehrer was a frequent guest on WNYC's “Radiolab,” appearing 17 times. He quit his job at The New Yorker after a journalist revealed …

Discussion: Current.org Blog and BuzzFeed

David Daley / Salon:
Jayson Blair: Jonah Lehrer's story reminds me of my own

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Foster Kamer / The New York Observer:
Q & A: Michael C. Moynihan, The Blogger Who Uncovered Jonah Lehrer's Fabrication Problem

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

Mitt Romney aide's gaffe exposes rift — In one week abroad, Mitt Romney has managed to enrage both the Brits and the Palestinians. Now add to that roster his own press corps. — Over seven days in the UK, Israel and Poland, Romney held just one media availability for the U.S. traveling press …

Discussion: Erik Wemple and FishbowlDC

Emily Friedman / ABC News:
Mitt Romney Spokesman Tells Reporters ‘Kiss My...’ at Polish Holy Site

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Jim Romenesko:

Media General gives pink slips to 75 employees — Media General — “smaller, more focused” after selling its newspapers (but for the Tampa Tribune) to Warren Buffett — is dismissing 75 employees today. CEO Marshall Morton tells his staff: When we sold our newspapers last month …

Discussion: FishbowlNY and Poynter

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

paidContent 50: The world's most successful digital media companies — Digital media is exploding. Half of us now read news on tablets, virtually all music tracks are bought electronically, and nearly a tenth of Americans are ditching cable for internet TV.

Discussion: The FJP

Erik Larson / Bloomberg:

News Corp. Asks To Keep Allegations In Phone-Hacking Case Secret — News Corp. (NWSA)'s British publishing unit asked a judge to keep secret a series of new claims being made by victims of phone hacking at its News of the World tabloid in preparation for a group trial scheduled for February.

Josh Halliday / Guardian: Sun journalist arrested in Operation Tuleta investigation into stolen phones

Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:

CQ Roll Call Bloodbath of Layoffs Hits — CQ Roll Call informed some 30 employees this morning that they no longer have jobs. As layoffs, they will receive severance packages. — For days the news was imminent that more heads were going to roll on the sales side of the publication …

Discussion: mediabistro.com and MediaPost

Suzanne McCarroll / Poynter:

Few answers for reporter who covered Columbine, Aurora theater shooting — I am a local television reporter. — I never traveled to Afghanistan. I didn't cover the war in Iraq. I work for CBS in Denver, Colorado. To foreign network correspondents, that might seem dull.

Discussion: TVSpy

Fruzsina Eördögh / ReadWriteWeb:

Hactivists Spoof the New York Times, Mainstream Media Miss the Point — It was the New York Times op-ed that wasn't. After months of careful planning, Internet activists hailing from WikiLeaks, Anonymous and Yes Men quietly unfurled a very convincing New York Times web page on a lazy Sunday morning.

Discussion: WebProNews, Runnin' Scared and newsfeed.time.com

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: Ross Levinsohn Departs Yahoo — As I previously reported he likely would, top Yahoo exec Ross Levinsohn — who lost the CEO race to former Google exec Marissa Mayer — is leaving the company, according to several sources. — Mayer also just sent a note to the company about the departure …