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Playstation Vue Goes To The Deadpool
Earnings from Alphabet and Shopify, hacking the Olympics, the Rise of the Rest rides again, Amazon is making grocery delivery free and letting you pay your electric bill via Alexa, and don’t update your HomePod, or you might brick it.
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USA Today's print edition reportedly set to be phased out after GateHouse-Gannett deal
USA Today's print edition is down to a circulation of 520,000 (with most of that at a lower hotel rate), and it could end entirely after the GateHouse deal.
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The Voice of Beijing: China's Expanding Media Dominance in Africa
Chinese state television is gaining influence in Africa. But while the media outlets involved officially claim their journalism is independent, those who work for the companies tell a different story. By Bartholomäus Grill.
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The Urgent Quest for Slower, Better News
Last month, I decided to try an experiment with my media diet. Usually, in the morning, I skim e-mail newsletters in my in-box, scroll through my Twitter feed, and peruse the news apps on my phone; later, in the office, I tap through my notifications and monitor more than a dozen news-related apps, including Facebook and Twitter, while juggling other tasks. I usually feel as though I’m managing to stay abreast of the day’s biggest news stories, but my reading tends to be fragmentary—I’m only skimming a story or absorbing a partial update.
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WikiLeaks set 21st century model for cyber-leak journalism
Using cryptography and virtual drop boxes, Julian Assange's WikiLeaks created a revolutionary new model for media to lure massive digitized leaks from whistleblowers, exposing everything from US military secrets to wealthy tax-dodgers' illicit offshore accounts. Assange's arrest in London Thursday on a US extradition request to face charges of computer crimes could spell the end of 13-year-old WikiLeaks.
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It’s Time to Stop Pretending the Murdochs Are in the News Business
The New York Times Magazine’s recently published forensic examination of the power and influence of the Murdoch media empire is both a testament to what journalism can accomplish and an indictment of what it has, in the hands of Rupert Murdoch and his two sons, increasingly become. The 16,000-word investigation should quiet anyone who thinks that the survival of that often-infuriating newspaper is of no particular consequence to the future of American democracy.
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How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the World
Rupert Murdoch was lying on the floor of his cabin, unable to move. It was January 2018, and Murdoch and his fourth wife, Jerry Hall, were spending the holidays cruising the Caribbean on his elder son Lachlan’s yacht. Lachlan had personally overseen the design of the 140-foot sloop — named Sarissa after a long and especially dangerous spear used by the armies of ancient Macedonia — ensuring that it would be suitable for family vacations while also remaining competitive in superyacht regattas. The cockpit could be transformed into a swimming pool.
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How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the World: Part 1: Imperial Reach
Murdoch and his children have toppled governments on two continents and destabilized the most important democracy on Earth. What do they want?
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Can’t Afford to Tell the Truth
Owen Bennett-Jones on the state of the BBC.
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Should media avoid naming the gunmen in mass shootings?
A few months after teen shooters killed 12 classmates and her father at Columbine High School, Coni Sanders was standing in line at a grocery store with her young daughter when they came face to face with the magazine cover. It showed the two gunmen who had carried out one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history. Sanders realized that few people knew much about her father, who saved countless lives. But virtually everyone knew the names and the tiniest of details about the attackers who carried out the carnage.
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Get Ready for a Flood of Anti-Cord Cutting Stories Starting Later Today
There is an old saying that goes “look at who they attack, and you will find out who they are afraid of.” This seems to be very true as a growing number of media companies line up to attack cord cutting. Get ready for a new flood of these attacks as later today AT&T will announce a new DIRECTV NOW price hike and new packages with fewer channels. Now it looks like the same old faces are once again dusting off the old attack that cord cutting costs more than cable TV.
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It’s time — high time — to take Fox News’s destructive role in America seriously
Chris Wallace is an exceptional interviewer, and Shepard Smith and Bret Baier are reality-based news anchors. Now that we’ve got that out of the way, let’s talk about the overall problem of Fox News, which started out with bad intentions in 1996 and has swiftly devolved into what often amounts to a propaganda network for a dishonest president and his allies.
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Colbert Beats Fallon for First Time in Key Ratings Demographic
Stephen Colbert can finally claim complete bragging rights. For the first time, Mr. Colbert’s “Late Show” on CBS has drawn a bigger Nielsen rating point among young adult viewers than any other late-night talk show. Until now, Jimmy Fallon’s “Tonight Show” on NBC has been the leader in that category, which is vital to advertisers.
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How the decline of newspapers creates 'news deserts' around the country
Layoffs at established newspaper chains and digital upstarts alike reflect the difficulty of the news business. The closing of local newsrooms can create "news deserts," areas with limited access to news outlets. Judy Woodruff talks to Steve Cavendish, editor of the Nashville Banner, and Penny Abernathy, chair of journalism and digital media economics at the University of North Carolina.
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The Fetishization of the Corporate Media
Because I’m not trying to get or keep a job, or maintain a “respectable” reputation, I’m free to call a spade a spade and a bunch of horseshit a bunch of horseshit. By CJ Hopkins.
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Putin Erases the Truth About the Ruble
Russia has banned the ubiquitous street displays of the currency’s value, and perhaps nostalgia, to hide any hint of weakness. By Leonid Bershidsky. (Dec. 20, 2018)
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CBS Considers Dropping Nielsen Ratings Contract as TV Landscape Changes (EXCLUSIVE)
CBS is considering ending its longstanding contract with TV ratings provider Nielsen as it looks for new ways to measure audiences in the multiplatform universe. The nation’s most-watched TV network is prepared to drop Nielsen’s measurement services if the two sides can’t come to an agreement by the end of this month, according to a person familiar with the matter. CBS’ current contract with Nielsen – valued at more than $100 million a year — expires at year’s end, the source said.
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Tucker Carlson suggested immigrants make the U.S. ‘dirtier’ — and it cost Fox News an advertiser
In less than three minutes, Tucker Carlson suggested immigrants make the United States “dirtier,” contradicted himself on their values and gushed over Mexicans frustrated with Central American caravans. The opening tear cost his Fox News show an advertiser, at least for now. Few advocates, if any, argue the economic merit of immigration, Carlson said in his opening monologue Thursday evening. The nation needs skilled workers, but Carlson said that is not who arrives here. (Fact check: Not true.)
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US sale to shake up local TV landscape
Nexstar set to become the largest US operator of local TV stations after buying Tribune Media.
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Mic has laid off the majority of its staff
The publisher is trying to sell the remainder of the company to Bustle Digital Group.
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