Addicted Gamer Sues Game-Maker

A Hawaii man is suing NCsoft of South Korea because he is "unable to function independently" because of his addiction to the Lineage II. A federal judge is allowing his negligence lawsuit to proceed against the publisher of the online virtual-world game.

Read more at Wired.

AOL Hyperlocal Journalism Project

AOL is working to reinvent itself, and as part of that, it is making a big push into hyperlocal journalism with a project called Patch. On Tuesday, it launched its 100th local news site. Patch says it will expand to 500 small communities by the end of this year, but it faces big competition and an uncertain future.

Read more at NPR.

Global Pay TV To Hit $312M

TV advertising revenues continues to show strength post-recession -- as do pay TV revenues. Revenues from global pay TV services -- cable, satellite, IPTV -- have climbed 9% in the second quarter to $58 billion, versus the same period in 2009, per the to New York-based market researcher ABI Research. For the year overall, the company has said global pay TV revenues will get to $312 billion in 2010 -- a 7% gain over 2009.

Read more at Media Post.

Confidence in News Low

Confidence in newspapers and television news is near record lows. The findings are from Gallup's annual Confidence in Institutions survey. Americans' confidence in newspapers and television news is on par with Americans' lackluster confidence in banks and slightly better than their dismal rating of Health Management Organizations and big business.

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Time-Shifted More Than Doubles

Time-shifted TV viewing has more than doubled over the past year and over 40 percent of Americans now make plans to record their favorite shows and watch them later. That's the finding of a survey conducted for the No. 1 U.S. cable TV operator Comcast Corp found.

Read more from Reuters.

Journalism Warning Labels

British comedian Tom Scott has created printable warning labels for news readers.

This article is basically just a press release, copied and pasted.

Medical claims in this article have not been confirmed by peer-reviewed research.

This article is based on an unverified, anonymous tipoff.

To meet a deadline, this article was plagiarised from another news source.

This article contains unsourced, unverified information from Wikipedia.

Journalist does not understand the subject they are writing about.

Journalist hiding their own opinions by using phrases like 'some people claim'.

To ensure future interviews with subject, important questions were not asked.

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