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“Everyone should see this beautiful tribute from Rachel Maddow to Michael Hastings.” - @BuzzFeedAndrew
The Church of England has sold all of its shares in News Corp. because it fears Rupert Murdoch’s media empire has failed to learn lessons from the phone-hacking scandal.
Battle the Olympians: The Guardian readers a nostalgic, 8-bit glance at how their athletic capabilities stack up against previous winners of Olympic gold. Nothing too fancy, but sometimes you just need something fun after a day of heavy news. (ht AntDeRosa) source
Proof once again that people want good, meaty and important information, but that how they are consuming that info is changing.
It’s not the people don’t want “broccoli journalism” it is just that they want it blended into a smoothie - or as Carr puts it in the piece, they want it covered in chocolat.
Check out this interactive map and watch as four companies devour what’s left of local TV!
Finally, comprehensive online television news archive by Internet Archive
Yesterday, the folks at Internet Archive launched a robust online collection of more than 340,000 TV news programs from the past three years. The service, aptly called, TV News Search Borrow is awesome for a number of reasons.
First, it is easy to find relevant news coverage on a specific topic. The search digs through caption information provided by the networks and ranks your results. This is a huge improvement over the tools currently out there for video producers to find news coverage.
Tell Congress: Keep the Internet WEIRD — and SAVE NET NEUTRALITY
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