Al Jazeera, the Arab news giant financed by the government of Qatar, announced its plans to buy Current TV, the failing progressive network co-founded by Al Gore. The deal will give Al Jazeera a much bigger footprint in the United States, reaching 40 million households. After the acquisition was announced, Time Warner Cable said that it would no longer carry Current TV.
Andrew Sullivan, the original enfant terrible of blogging, has announced that his platform, The Dish, will leave The Daily Beast and strike out on its own. The plan is to charge readers directly, starting at $20 for the first year.
A federal judge has rejected a The New York Times’s suit that sought more information on the United States government’s drone strike program, including the attack in 2011 that killed an American citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, and his 16-year-old son.
BuzzFeed, the social media darling that combines serious political coverage with kitten videos, announced it had received $20 million in new funding.
Article source: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/03/the-breakfast-meeting-al-jazeeras-deal-for-current-tv/?partner=rss&emc=rss
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