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Former Murdoch Editor Alleges Cover-Up

Nick Davies, The Guardian: "Phone hacking: News of the World reporter's letter reveals cover-up"

Ryan Chittum, Columbia Journalism Review: "Damning New Evidence in the News Corp. Hacking Scandal"

Joe Pompeo, Yahoo! News: "U.S. phone-hacking fallout looking more unlikely"

Bad Rules for Blunting Bad Behavior?

Daniel B. Wood, Christian Science Monitor: "BART puts social media crackdown in 'uncharted' legal territory"

James Rainey, Los Angeles Times: "Social media crackdown?  It'd be more than unsociable"

Robert Andrews, Paid Content: "Social Media's Mob: Disconnected From Riots' Reality?"

Jeffrey Collins, AP: "Tobacco companies file lawsuit over warning labels"

Social Media and Rumors

KOMU-TV News Director Stacey Woelfel's memo to staff as rumors flew about Texas A&M moving to SEC

David Briggs, Columbia Daily Tribune: "Some reporters burned by itchy Twitter fingers"

Katie Moritz, Columbia Missourian: "Wild Brad chase: Tweets spark campuswide search for actor Pitt"


"The Queen of Rage"& the "Unelectable" Snub



Elizabeth Flock, The Washington Post: "Newsweek Michele Bachmann cover 'sexist' and in bad form?"

Toby Harnden, The Telegraph: "Fried food and retail politics at the Iowa State Fair"

Roger Simon, Politico: "Ron Paul remains media poison"

Asher Smith, Huffington Post: "Ron Paul Has Not Been 'Shafted' by the Media"

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The Torture Conversation

Dahlia Lithwick, Slate: You Say Torture, I Say Coercive Interrogation

University Travel

Janese Silvey, Columbia Daily Tribune: UM cites high cost for access to microfilms

MU chancellor keeps eye on travel costs

Airbrushing Ads

BBC: Girl guides call for airbrushed photos to be labelled

Raif Ludemann, The Hollywood Reporter: Airbrushed Julia Roberts' L'Oreal U.K. Ad Campaign Banned

cmwillis, Media Technology Blog: Airbrushed Images Banned in UK

The New Yorker and the Bin Laden Raid

Nicholas Schmidle, The New Yorker: Getting Bin Laden

Josh Voorhees, The Slatest: New Yorker Finds Financial Success With iPad App

The Debt Ceiling

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The Colbert Report

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Covering the Debt

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CNN Politics.com: Phone swamped, servers crash as voters slam Congress

Norwegian Terrorism and the Internet

Glynnis MacNicol, Business Insider: Stephen Colbert Eviscerates Media's Assumption Norway Killer Was Muslim

Syliva Poggioli, NPR: Norway Questions Its Tolerence Of Extremism

The WSJ Apologizes

Media Monkey, guardian.co.uk: Wall Street Journal issues mea culpa over reporting of phone hacking

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Cameron, Murdochs In the Hotseat

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BBC News: "Phone-hacking: Cameron's 'regret' over hiring Coulson"

Cassell Bryan-Low and Paul Sonne, The Wall Street Journal: "Murdochs Are Grilled"

Nick Davies, The Guardian: "Behind Rupert and James Murdoch's gloss, an intensely serious defence"

James Delingpole, The Daily Telegraph: "The Murdochalypse: break and circuses"

NPR: "Tina Brown's Must Reads: Reckoning With Rupert"

Roger Cohen, The New York Times: "In Defense of Murdoch"

Andy fixmer, Ronald Grover and Jeffrey McCracken, Bloomberg: "News Corp. Said to Consider Elevating Chase Carey to CEO"

Murdoch = More Media Regulation?

Mike Collett-White, Reuters: "UK media ponders changes hacking scandal may bring"

Iain Overton, Huffington Post UK: "Analysis: Why Press Reform Could Inhibit Investigative Journalism"

Josh Smith, National Journal: "News Corp. Scandal Adds Fuel To U.S. Media Ownership Debate"

John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable: "News Corp. Fallout: Rep. Bono Mack Seeks Privacy Info From NCTA, Others"

Editorial Board, The Washington Post: "Don't let the response to News of the World go too far"

FreePress.net: "Ownership Chart: The Big Six"

WSJ: Dodging the Hacking Taint

Review & Outlook, The Wall Street Journal: "News and Its Critics: A tabloid's excesses don't tarnish thousands of other journalists."

Robert L. Pollack, The Wall Street Journal: "The Murdoch Empire -- An Inside View"

Joe Nocera, The New York Times: "The Journal Becomes Fox-ified"

Michael Calderone, Huffington Post: "Wall Street Journal Staffers Push Back: We're Not 'Fox-ified'"

Charles M. Madigan, Chicago Tribune: "Can journalism survive Murdoch?"