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There’s another reason the L.A. Times’ AI-generated opinion ratings are bad (this one doesn’t involve the Klan)
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July 19, 2011, 6 p.m.

Links on Twitter: Internet users trust more, Time introduces iPad access to subscribers and accusations of US phone hacking

An American PR group is accusing a reporter of phone hacking its conference calls http://nie.mn/quEdT9»

News Challenge winner OpenCourt balances a victim’s privacy with the 1st Amendment http://nie.mn/pvVO3E »

Time magazine is the latest to include iPad access in the print subscription http://nie.mn/p0RXn0 »

The “Page One” filmmakers interviewed author Sarah Ellison on the mind of Murdoch http://nie.mn/pj4DjT »

Esquire’s Chris Jones with the latest installment of “Why’s this so good?” over at @niemanstory http://nie.mn/r6EkKZ »

MT @Poynter: Your 5-minute guide to News Corp. phone hacking scandal: http://nie.mn/oVmaQH »

Seven days of work with just a Chromebook: “It was the best of devices; it was the worst of devices” http://nie.mn/rrLtnV »

The Murdochs are before Parliament now http://nie.mn/pJAofx »

Interesting dive into Pew’s study on social media: Internet users are much more trusting. http://nie.mn/o75MhD via @mathewi »

@joshuatopolsky‘s next project is called The Verge: http://nie.mn/pFkcjB »

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