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New tobacco agreement excludes African-American media
When anti-smoking advocate La Tanisha Wright looked at the details of an agreement reached last month between the three largest American tobacco companies, the Justice Department and a coalition of anti-tobacco groups, she said her "heart dropped."
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How Ukraine Wooed Conservative Websites
Several conservative bloggers repeated talking points given to them by a proxy group for the Ukrainian government — and at least one writer was paid by a representative of the Ukrainian group, according to documents and emails obtained by BuzzFeed.
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The NBA, NHL, And MLB Are Teaming Up With Time To Build A Digital-First ESPN Killer
The NHL, NBA, NASCAR, and MLB are partnering with Time Inc to launch a live-streaming digital network called 120 Sports. Noticably absent from that list? The NFL, the only sports league that really matters in the U.S. right now. The network is called 120 sports because it's core offering is 2-minute (120 second) video clips. It's going to be a 24-hour live video network.
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Piers Morgan and CNN Plan End to His Prime-Time Show
There have been times when the CNN host Piers Morgan didn’t seem to like America very much — and American audiences have been more than willing to return the favor. Three years after taking over for Larry King, Mr. Morgan has seen the ratings for “Piers Morgan Live” hit some new lows, drawing a fraction of viewers compared with competitors at Fox News and MSNBC.
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Beyond cute cats: How BuzzFeed is reinventing itself
BuzzFeed has come a long way from cat lists. This month one of its journalists was on the ground in Kiev reporting on the crisis in Ukraine, and last December it published an in-depth article on a Chinese dissident living in Harlem, New York. The kittens haven't disappeared, but these days there is serious journalism as well.
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Turkish PM's private call goes viral
Almost 800,000 people have listened in on a private phone call posted on YouTube, in which the Turkish Prime Minister appears to suggest that a TV executive should remove captions of an opposition politician criticising him.
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Heroic bus driver story keeps getting fishier, why is the media going along with this?
This is a follow up to an earlier post about the heroic Dayton Ohio bus driver who claims to have disarmed three gun wielding, racist assailants using only an ink pen and a bible.
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I lost my dad to Fox News: How a generation was captured by thrashing hysteria
Old white people are drowning in despair and rage. Here's how my father lost his mind - thanks to his cable diet
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Dish cuts deal to limit controversial ad-skipping feature on ABC shows
Dish Network's digital video recorders have resulted in a wave of lawsuits due to their ability to skip over commercials — but according to a new report, the company has now cut a deal with The Walt Disney Company to limit that ability on ABC shows. According to The Wall Street Journal, Dish has closed a deal with Disney that will disable the Auto Hop feature until three days after ABC shows are broadcast on the air.
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Rob Ford ridiculed on Jimmy Kimmel Live
Rob Ford reeled off his accomplishments and referred to himself as just an "average, hardworking politician" Monday during a highly anticipated appearance on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live show. The Toronto mayor, sporting a black suit with a bright red tie and pocket handkerchief, arrived to loud applause and tossed Ford Nation T-shirts into the audience.
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161 years later, New York Times corrects its '12 Years a Slave' story
The New York Times today published corrections to a story that ran more than 150 years ago, thanks to the twin forces of Twitter and Hollywood. The article, published on January 20th, 1853, describes the story of Solomon Northup, a freed African-American who was kidnapped and sold into slavery. Northup's memoir, Twelve Years a Slave, was turned into the movie that won the Oscar for best picture at Sunday's Academy Awards in Los Angeles.
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Attorneys for Barrett Brown want case on linking to hacked material dismissed
Lawyers acting for Barrett Brown, the activist-journalist facing more than 100 years in prison for having posted a hyperlink to hacked material, have called for his case to be dismissed on grounds that it violates his First Amendment rights to free speech and would chill the internet. Brown, 32, is being held in Texas ahead of two scheduled trials on 28 April and 19 May. He is charged with a total of 17 counts in three separate indictments relating to his work uncovering online surveillance.
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Video: RT Anchor Quits On Air
An American anchor working for state-owned television station Russia Today quit on air on Wednesday. Liz Wahl, in the network's D.C. bureau, announced she could no longer be "part of a network that whitewashes the actions of Putin. I'm proud to be an American and believe in disseminating the truth, and that is why, after this newscast, I am resigning."
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Ukraine, Putin TV and the Big Lie
You won't believe what the Russian media is saying about America right now.
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Flipboard Acquires Content Discovery Tool Zite
Social reader app Flipboard announced that it’s acquired content discovery tool and reader Zite from CNN. While Zite traded hands for a reported $60 million, it also appears that CNN has jumped on the Flipboard bandwagon and will be sharing its news and feature stories in its new Flipboard magazines: CNN and CNN International.
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Playboy Must Pay $6 Million to Fired Executive in Largest Federal Whistleblower Verdict Ever
Company still faces punitive damages in ruling that also found age discrimination and “malice, fraud or oppression” Playboy Enterprises must pay $6 million to a former accounting executive who was wrongfully terminated, a federal jury in California decided Wednesday, and may have to pay more when punitive damages are decided later this week.
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NBC Crows About Thwarting 45,000 'Illegal' Olympic Videos, Ignores The Fact That It Drove Users To Them
Aside from a now-traditional lack of enough live coverage, pretty awful commentary, a ridiculous over-abundance of a strangely limited rotation of ads, making Bode Miller cry and Bob Costas' double eye infection, NBC did a pretty good job covering the Winter Olympics, right? NBC certainly believes so, even though it seems that many Americans found NBC coverage so immensely annoying, they went to great lengths to install VPNs so they could watch Canada's version of the games instead.
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Sourceless: Online Reporting Becomes a Race to the Bottom
Reporters and bloggers have stopped verifying information in favor of getting their stories out first.
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Confessions of a Former RT Employee
Meet Sam Knight, the Washington-based journalist and acerbic tweeter who, before he turned to freelancing, spent a summer working for the English-language outlet for RT. The network, formerly known as Russia Today, has been the toast of the media this week as events in Ukraine continue to unfold.
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The problem with too much information
The internet promised to feed our minds with information. What have we learned? That our minds need more than that
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