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MediaChannel New Media According to multiple tweets, actor Jeff Goldblum has died. But wait, Jeff Goldblum interrupts Stephen's report on the death of Jeff Goldblum.


Al Jazeera looks at how Chinese citizens are using the internet to fight corruption.


By Brian Stelter, NY Times
"Check the source" may be the first rule of journalism. But in the coverage of the protests in Iran this month, some news organizations have adopted a different stance: publish first, ask questions later. If you still don't know the answer, ask your readers.


By Shaun Nichols, VNUnet
Researchers at Intel are developing a new tool which deliberately seeks out conflicting information and opposing viewpoints on the internet.


Nico Pitney of the Huffington Post and Dana Milbank of the Washington Post debate Nico's question to President Obama.


By Laura Flanders, GritTV
Joining Laura Flanders to dicuss the week in media are Danny Schechter, Allison Kilkenny, Andrew Golis.


By Amanda Terkel, Think Progress
FBI agents went to the New Jersey home of white supremacist blogger/radio host Hal Turner and arrested him "on a federal complaint filed in Chicago alleging that he made internet postings threatening to assault and murder three federal appeals court judges in Chicago."


By Mark Sweney, Guardian
Steve Ballmer says the global advertising economy has been permanently "reset" at a lower level, warning that media companies should not plan for revenues to bounce back to pre-recession levels.


By Russia Today
Katrina Vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation magazine, shares her views on the American mass media with Russia Today.


Thousands of tweets were sent via Twitter in the wake of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's admission that he spent this weekend in Argentina where he cheated on his wife. Here are a small sample of funny lines...


 
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