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Pressure on James Murdoch Is Poised to Intensify

Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Don Van Natta Jr., Graham Bowley, Jo Becker - Jul. 24 (News Report) - After his testimony in Parliament was challenged by two former senior employees and referred by a lawmaker to Scotland Yard for investigation, James Murdoch has come under rising pressure in Britain’s phone hacking scandal that is likely to intensify this week.

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Hacking Testimony Is Disputed

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Cassell Bryan Low, Paul Sonne, Steve Stecklow - Jul. 22 (News Report) - Two former executives broke ranks with News Corp. for the first time on Thursday over whether James Murdoch knew in 2008 that the phone-hacking scandal at the company's now-defunct U.K. tabloid likely involved more than just one rogue reporter, as the company had long maintained.

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How Twitter tracked the News of the World scandal

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Jonathan Richards, Alex Graul, Martin Shuttleworth, Mariana Santos, Ranjit Dhaliwal, Alastair Dant - Jul. 14 (Special Report) - The Murdochs' decision to close the News of the World was greeted with a frenzy on Twitter. The Guardian has analysed half a million tweets sent with the #notw hashtag over the past four days to capture…

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How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory

Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Rolling Stone - By Tim Dickinson - May. 30 (Special Report) - The onetime Nixon operative has created the most profitable propaganda machine in history. Inside America's Unfair and Imbalanced Network

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NPR CEO Vivian Schiller Resigns After Board Decides She Should Go

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

NPR - By Mark Memmott - Mar. 09 (News) - Her departure follows controversial remarks by NPR's chief fundraiser and last fall's controversial firing of news analyst Juan Williams.

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In Video: NPR Exec Slams Tea Party, Questions Need For Federal Funds

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

All Things Considered - By Mark Memmott - Mar. 08 (Special Report) - "Tea Party people" aren't "just Islamaphobic, but really xenophobic, I mean basically they are, they believe in sort of white, middle-America gun-toting. I mean, it's scary. They're seriously racist, racist people."

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Records Say Fox News Chief Told Employee to Lie

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Russ Buettner - Feb. 25 (News Report) - It was an incendiary allegation — and a mystery of great intrigue in the media world: After the publishing powerhouse Judith Regan was fired by HarperCollins in 2006, she claimed that a senior executive at its parent company, News Corporation, had encouraged her to lie two years earlier to federal investigators who were vetting Bernard B. Kerik for the job of homeland security secretary.

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Olbermann Said To Be Going To Current TV

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Bill Carter, Brian Stelter - Feb. 08 (Breaking News) - Keith Olbermann, the former MSNBC anchor, will host a prime time program for Current TV, the low-rated cable channel co-founded by Al Gore. The program will begin sometime later this year.

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Egypt through the US media lens

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Aljazeera - Feb. 06 (News Analysis) - The US media's coverage of events in Egypt has been described by some critics as a recipe for killing the democracy movement in its cradle. The mainstream American media have wheeled out the usual suspects to offer their expertise on the topic - but do they really get it?

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Dealing With Assange and the Secrets He Spilled

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Bill Keller - Jan. 27 (Special Report) - Is the WikiLeaks founder the great puppet master of the news media? He would like you to think so. But The Times’s dealings with him reveal a different story.

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New York Times Readies Pay Wall

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Russell Adams - Jan. 24 (News) - The New York Times next month is expected to begin offering a long-anticipated menu of online subscription packages, marking an important test for consumer willingness to pay for news.

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Olbermann-MSNBC split had been brewing for a while

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Paul Farhi - Jan. 23 (News Report) - A swirl of questions Saturday surrounded political provocateur Keith Olbermann's abrupt departure from MSNBC, the network he helped transform - by dint of his fiery eloquence and on-air presence - into the left's answer to Fox News.

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FCC Net Neutrality Rules Slammed from All Sides

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - By Ryan Singel - Dec. 20 (News Analysis) - The federal government’s new internet fairness rules — aimed at preventing the nation’s cable and DSL internet service providers from meddling with the open, free-wheeling nature of the internet — were met with loud criticism Monday night from all sides of the political spectrum.

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Julian Assange granted bail over sexual crime allegations in Sweden

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:33:55 -0800

The Guardian - By Mark Tran - Dec. 14 (News) - A British court today granted bail with strict conditions to Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks website, who faces allegations of rape in Sweden.

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WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Granted Bail, With Conditions

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - By Kim Zetter - Dec. 14 (Breaking News) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was granted bail this morning by a London judge with conditions. Assange must surrender his passport and agree to travel restrictions, adhere to a curfew and wear an electronic tracking device. His bail was set at £200,000 ($315,000).

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Assange Lawyers Prepare for U.S. Spying Indictment

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

ABC News - By Jim Sciutto, Lee Ferran - Dec. 10 (News Report) - Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, the man behind the publication of more than a 250,000 classified U.S. diplomatic cables, could soon be facing spying charges in the U.S. related to the Espionage Act, Assange's lawyer said today.

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LimeWire, After Lengthy Battle, to Shut Down Dec. 31

Sat, 04 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Ben Sisario - Dec. 04 (News) - LimeWire, the popular music file-sharing service that ran afoul of the music industry, has reached its end. The company said on Friday that it would be shutting down by the end of the year and closing its sole office in New York.

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U.S. domain name service boots WikiLeaks after series of attacks on site

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Ellen Nakashima, Edward Cody - Dec. 03 (News Report) - WikiLeaks, which has sought to leverage the anonymity and ubiquity of the Internet in its efforts to make public secret information, is struggling to keep its Web site online without interruption.

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Viacom Says YouTube Ruling Will ‘Completely Destroy’ Copyright

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - By David Kravets - Dec. 03 (News) - Viacom appealed Friday its unsuccessful $1 billion copyright lawsuit against Google’s YouTube in a case testing the depths of copyright-infringement protection under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998.

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Assange Arrest 'Expected In Days'; But He's On The Web Today

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

NPR - By Mark Memmott - Dec. 03 (Breaking News) - Britain's The Independent says WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is "expected to be arrested in the coming days after Swedish prosecutors filed a new warrant with British authorities."

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WikiLeaks founder could be charged under Espionage Act

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Ellen Nakashima, Jerry Markon - Nov. 30 (News) - Federal authorities are investigating whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange violated criminal laws in the group's release of government documents, including possible charges under the Espionage Act, sources familiar with the inquiry said Monday.

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WikiLeaks: Interpol issues wanted notice for Julian Assange

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By David Leigh, Luke Harding, Afua Hirsch, Ewen MacAskill - Nov. 30 (News Report) - Interpol has issued an international warrant at the request of a Swedish court for the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in connection with alleged sex crimes.

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Cables Obtained by WikiLeaks Shine Light Into Secret Diplomatic Channels

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Scott Shane, Andrew W. Lehren - Nov. 29 (Special Report) - A cache of a quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables, most of them from the past three years, provides an unprecedented look at back-room bargaining by embassies around the world, brutally candid views of foreign leaders and frank assessments of nuclear and terrorist threats.

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A Superpower's View of the World

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Der Spiegel - Nov. 28 (News Analysis) - 251,000 State Department documents, many of them secret embassy reports from around the world, show how the US seeks to safeguard its influence around the world. It is nothing short of a political meltdown for US foreign policy.

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Rasmussen Polls Were Biased and Inaccurate; Quinnipiac, SurveyUSA Performed Strongly

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Nate Silver - Nov. 05 (News Analysis) - On Tuesday, polls conducted by the firm Rasmussen Reports — which released more than 100 surveys in the final three weeks of the campaign, including some commissioned under a subsidiary on behalf of Fox News — badly missed the margin in many states, and also exhibited a considerable bias toward Republican candidates.

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