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11:40 AM ET, September 2, 2024

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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney pulls ABC, ESPN, and other channels from DirecTV in a major carriage dispute, a year after a dispute with Charter Spectrum led to channels going dark  —  Disney previously saw its channels go dark a year ago in a dispute with Charter Spectrum.  —  Disney finds itself at the center …
Margaret Sullivan / American Crisis:
The NYT's article on Trump's and Harris' housing crisis policies is a particularly ugly example of the mainstream media's continued use of false equivalence  —  The mainstream media is still getting it wrong about Trump  —  I once asked Jill Abramson, the former top editor of the New York Times …
John Rogers / Associated Press:
Linda Deutsch, a trial reporter for the AP who covered Charles Manson, OJ Simpson, and other criminal and civil trials, died on September 1 at age 80  —  Linda Deutsch, a special correspondent for The Associated Press who for nearly 50 years wrote glittering first drafts of history …
New York Times:
How Brazil's experiment fighting fake news during the 2022 elections, giving a justice broad power to order social networks to remove content, led to the X ban  —  To combat disinformation, Brazil gave one judge broad power to police the internet.  Now, after he blocked X, some are wondering whether that was a good idea.
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Associated Press:
Brazil blocks X, following an order from Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes after Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country
Taylor Lorenz / Taylor Lorenz's Newsletter:
Music labels and entertainment PR agencies scramble to assess Brazil's X ban, which could impact talent fandoms that are heavily supported by “stan” accounts
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
X is right to stand up to Brazil's unjust “hostage laws,” but Musk's fight highlights his cynical free speech stance after he caved to Modi's censorship demands
Chris Moody / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the journalists who found new perspectives after leaving the US media hubs of New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC, for smaller cities and towns  —  As a teenager growing up in a rural Georgia town in the early 2000s, Alison Miller counted the days until she could move away for good.
Amanda Holpuch / New York Times:
A New Hampshire man is sentenced to 27 months in prison for harassing New Hampshire Public Radio journalists, including by vandalizing their homes  —  Tucker Cockerline was part of a group that prosecutors said vandalized the homes of a New Hampshire Public Radio reporter, her editor and her parents.
Discussion: Media Nation
Glen Allsopp / Detailed:
A look at websites dominating Google's Top Stories search result feature in 2024: the top 10 media brands, led by Gannett, are behind 284 of the top 1,000 sites  —  In an analysis of ~45 million keywords in which Google displayed their Top Stories SERP feature, the 1,000 most prominent domains accounted for 97.3% of all listings.
Wall Street Journal:
Big YouTube shows including Hot Ones and Good Mythical Morning attract large audiences but aren't yet getting Primetime Emmy nominations and ensuing ad revenue  —  ‘Hot Ones,’ ‘Chicken Shop Date’ and ‘Good Mythical Morning’ draw big audiences but aren't getting the kind of ad dollars and accolades TV shows do
Scott Feinberg / The Hollywood Reporter:
Sources: The Apprentice, the biopic delayed for US distribution by legal threats from Trump, is acquired by Briarcliff for a pre-election release on October 11  —  The Trump origin story, written by Gabriel Sherman and directed by Ali Abbasi, stars Sebastian Stan as the future president and Jeremy Strong as his consigliere Roy Cohn.
Crayton Harrison / Bloomberg:
Grupo Televisa says it learned that a US DOJ probe into FIFA-related activity may have a material impact on its financial results  —  Grupo Televisa SAB, which co-owns the world's largest Spanish-language broadcaster, said a US Justice Department probe into dealings in international soccer …
Discussion: Televisa
Business Insider:
Sources: Paramount is selling VidCon, started by Hank and John Green in 2010, to UK media firm Informa, which owns Toronto Comicon and a few other conventions  —  - Paramount is selling its creator conference VidCon to UK media firm Informa.  — Informa owns several pop-culture conventions …
 
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Ed Newton-Rex / Music Business Worldwide:
It's time for audio services like Spotify to deal with AI by using labels and banning or downweighting music made with AI tools that don't license training data
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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Investor note: 360 One values Indian startup VerSe, which operates popular news aggregator Dailyhunt, at $2.9B, down from $5B in 2022 when VerSe raised $805M
Jacob Gershman / Wall Street Journal:
Major US publishers sue Florida, claiming a law limiting sexual content in school libraries has motivated sweeping book bans in violation of the First Amendment
Ryan Smith / AnandTech:
AnandTech shuts down after covering PC and mobile hardware for over 27 years; publisher Future plans to keep AnandTech's website and articles live indefinitely