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Nashville station WSMV airs footage of cinema shooter's body

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Nashville TV station airs video of cinema shooter’s body. August 6, 2015. A screen capture of a news broadcast by WSMV-TV on August 5, 2015. (Photo: Supplied). A Nashville television station drew heat from its viewers and online streamers after it aired helicopter footage showing the deceased body of a man connected to an attack at a suburban movie theater on Wednesday. The tape was first shown around 2:30 pm local time. During the first run, a news anchor pointed out the body of the man. The foo...Will ...

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Carriage disputes knock KFMB, KXLY off satellite

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Carriage disputes knock local stations off satellite TV platforms. August 14, 2015. DirecTV and Dish Network, the nation’s two-largest consumer satellite television operators, have become embroiled in a carriage dispute with broadcasters of local television stations. On Dish, a carriage dispute involving Morgan Murphy Media has disrupted programming for customers in two states: Wisconsin and Washington. Affected stations include CBS affiliate WISC-TV. Channel 3, Madison) and ABC affiliate KXLY. As has be...

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NSA Surveillance Reform: "No" Votes in U.S. Senate - The Desk

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NSA Surveillance Reform: “No” Votes in U.S. Senate. Click here to jump to the database. On November 18, 2014, the U.S. Senate failed to act on legislation that would have reduced the domestic surveillance ability of the National Security Agency. The surveillance reform bill, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives in May and was supported by an overwhelming majority of Americans. Would have ended the current practice of gathering metadata. Privacy advocates asserted the bulk collection of American...

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Comcast: We're not blocking Sling TV ads from airing

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Comcast refutes conspiracy over ‘banned’ Sling TV ads. August 1, 2015. The Comcast logo is seen on a retail store in Sacramento, California on July 3, 2015. (Photo: Matthew Keys / The Desk). Comcast is not directing NBC stations owned by the cable giant to block advertisements solicited by Dish Network’s streaming TV service Sling TV, according to a spokesperson. Lynch said the ad campaign had been accepted on several broadcast television stations across the country, including those owned and operated by...

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Social Media Archives - The Desk

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New BuzzFeed on the block: Circa to relaunch under Sinclair with original reporting, user-generated content. Selerity used web crawler to grab “leaked” Twitter earnings report. Albuquerque newspaper Twitter account compromised by Islamic State sympathizer. Syrian Electronic Army hits International Business Times website. Gore site LiveLeak bans Steven Sotloff beheading video. How to avoid Twitter’s latest batch of new and unwanted features. Two journalists detained while covering Ferguson protests. Sourc...

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BuzzFeed's Ben Smith outs Jana Winter in tweet

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BuzzFeed editor outs departing colleague in tweet. August 7, 2015. A copy of a tweet published by Ben Smith. (Photo: Ben Smith/Twitter/The Desk). Ben Smith, the editor-in-chief of the content website BuzzFeed, said he was “mortified” after he published an image on Friday purporting to show a private Twitter conversation with a journalist at another news organization. A pair of reporters at The Next Web who published a redacted version of Winter’s messages. Smith did not respond to an e-mail from. The twe...

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Inquisitr attorney Dan Ilkay demands removal of source material

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After hoax exposed, Inquisitr attorney demands removal of source material. July 21, 2015. A screen capture shows a tweet published by John Albrecht, Jr. after his story was pulled from Inquisitr.com on Sunday. The documents are referenced in a lengthy exposé published Monday. Costco has no such ordering system for birthday cakes in the United States, and a manager for the local store referenced in Albrecht’s piece said they had no records of a customer complaining about a satanic cake design. Described a...

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Gawker implodes, editors quit, over gay escort story

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Gawker editors quit over deletion of gay escort story. July 20, 2015. Two Gawker Media editors resigned on Monday over the website’s decision to remove a controversial story centered on a rival media executive’s alleged intention to pay a gay escort for a sexual encounter. Max Read, Gawker’s editor-in-chief, and executive editor Tommy Craggs wrote in dual memos to staffers on Monday informing the company of their decision to quit in the wake of the controversial’s article removal. 8220;Nothing had ever c...

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Traders made millions off "hacked" press releases, feds allege

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Feds claim traders made millions off “hacked” press releases. August 11, 2015. Photo: Sue Waters/Flickr Creative Commons). The US. Department of Justice announced criminal charges against five named and four unnamed individuals on Tuesday over an alleged scheme that involved making millions of dollars from stolen press releases. According to charging documents unsealed on Tuesday, hackers deployed malware against Marketwire and PRNewswire in 2010, gaining access to confidential press release information ...

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Grand Jury Evidence: State of Missouri vs. Darren Wilson - The Desk

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Grand Jury Evidence: State of Missouri vs. Darren Wilson. Click the “Date” tab to arrange in chronological order. Please support this project by making a donation here. Darren Wilson Evidence and Statements. Ferguson Crime Scene Photos. Darren Wilson Medical Photos. Police Interview - Darren Wilson. Police Interview - Witness 10. Police Interview - Witness 12. Police Interview - Witness 12. Darren Wilson - Medical Records. Darren Wilson - Drug Test. Darren Wilson - Toxicology Report. Grand Jury Transcrip...