Mediagazer: CORRECTION: That Time We Let Pretend Science Ruin Real Science And Decided To Apologize For It (Rafael Casal/Upworthy)

4:05 PM ET, February 23, 2014

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Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Netflix and Comcast Solve Their Web Traffic Problem With a Long-Term Deal — Comcast and Netflix have hammered out a deal designed to remove a bottleneck slowing the video service's streams for the cable company's broadband customers. — The deal focuses on the intersection between …

Discussion: The Switch, Wall Street Journal, Comcast, TechCrunch, Gigaom, CNET, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, Ars Technica, @jyarow, @om, @pkafka, @pkafka, @pkafka and The Verge

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Netflix packets being dropped every day because Verizon wants more money

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Gautham Nagesh / Wall Street Journal: Comcast Sees Time Warner Cable Deal Boosting Broadband Competition

Raphael Minder / New York Times:

In a First for Spain, a Woman Is Convicted of Inciting Terror Over Twitter — MADRID — The line between youthful rebelliousness and something more dangerous is not always clear. But in her angry musings on Twitter, Alba González Camacho, 21, who describes herself as a “very normal girl,” sailed across it.

Discussion: CNET and The Verge

Rafael Casal / Upworthy:

CORRECTION: That Time We Let Pretend Science Ruin Real Science And Decided To Apologize For It — FROM THE EDITORS: Hey everyone. So a video made it onto our site that put Chicken McNuggets under a microscope. It had some problems (there's a link at the bottom of the page if you REALLY need to see it.)

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Ben Cosman / The Wire:

Inside Amtrak's (Absolutely Awesome) Plan to Give Free Rides to Writers — Amtrak has begun offering “writers' residencies” to, well, writers - long roundtrip rides aboard Amtrak trains dedicated solely for the purpose of writing. — After New York City-based writer Jessica Gross took the first …

Discussion: The Paris Review, @rebleber, @arimelber, @alexanderchee, @stevesilberman, The Verge and @richmhuff

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Discovery and BSkyB may make joint bid for Richard Desmond's Channel 5 — Channel 5, the broadcaster put on the block by Richard Desmond, could be sold to Discovery Communications, the US-based media conglomerate that is controlled by John Malone. — And, according to the Financial Times …

Discussion: Financial Times

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

While unbundling is the buzz, media companies team up to offer newer, smarter rebundling — The newsonomics of Spotified news subscriptions — In a first-of-its-kind partnership with streaming music leader Spotify, The Times of London has brought a whole new meaning to the subscription bundle …

David Bauder / Associated Press:

A different Olympics on TVs across the world — You are here — Home » Mao Asada » A different Olympics on TVs across the world — In Sweden, commentators have fun with Norway's misfortunes. The Dutch can't get enough of their speedskaters. Japan is so crazy about figure skating they show warmups.

Sara Morrison / Poynter:

Since 2007, L.A. Times' Homicide Report has wrested stories from data — We've heard a lot about Chris and Laura Amico's Homicide Watch - and for good reason. The site tracks homicides in Washington, D.C., (and, as of just over a year ago, Chicago and Trenton) from police report to conviction …

Discussion: @hfuhrmann and @rachelnixon

Esther Addley / Guardian:

Julian Assange's ghost writer breaks silence on failed autobiography — WikiLeaks founder a mercurial character who could not bear his own secrets, according to writer Andrew O'Hagan — The ghostwriter who collaborated with Julian Assange on his abortive 2011 autobiography has broken …

Discussion: London Review of Books, @bettypooshwah, @arusbridger, @jamesrbuk and Boing Boing

CNN:

Venezuela says CNN can stay, a day after saying ‘get out’ — (CNN) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro told a CNN reporting team Friday that it could continue reporting in the South American country, a day after the government revoked or denied press credentials for CNN journalists.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Poynter, @romustgo, @jorgeramosnews, @statedept, MiamiHerald.com, US Department of State, Global Voices, Business Insider, @tv6tnt and Associated Press

Natalie Kitroeff / The Lede:
Venezuela Battles Media, Social and Otherwise, to Restrict Protest Coverage

Discussion: Columbia Journalism Review, Mashable, The Verge and Feministing

Charlie Savage / New York Times:

Attorney General Signs New Rules to Limit Access to Journalists' Records — WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who drew fire last spring over the Justice Department's aggressive tactics for secretly obtaining reporters' phone logs and emails as part of leak investigations …

Discussion: USA Today, @emptywheel, @drudge, emptywheel, @kgosztola and Associated Press

Cathy Loughran / BBC College of Journalism:

Getting into journalism: Just go out and do it, says VICE maverick Tim Pool — In the first of a series of blog posts on alternative ways to get into journalism, Chicago-born self-taught journalist Tim Pool, now an international correspondent for media company VICE, tears up the traditional rule book.

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