Clarification: Thank you, Cathy Alexander of AAP:

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SMH editor defends McGurk reporting Sydney Morning Herald editor Peter Fray today told Mumbrella he stands by his paper’s reporting of the McGurk affair despite an inquiry describing a key claim as nonsense and an outspoken attack on the coverage from 2GB broadcaster Alan Jones in yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph.  – mUmBRELLA

Michael Wolff on ‘the next big thing’ I am told so many things about what is going to happen in the Internet business — happen imminently, happen in a way to transform human behavior and aspirations, happen in a way to disrupt the powers that be, or to restore the powers that used to be — that I should be in a position, if I could just focus my attention, to get rich, finally. – Vanity Fair

Super Bowl ads that actually sold stuff The Super Bowl isn’t a sporting event. It’s a business. And that business is advertising. This year, with every ad spot already sold out, prices topped out at more than $3 million, according to the Associated Press. Marketers shell out premium bucks to capture 100 or so million eyeballs, more than half of which are more interested in the ads than the football, according to Nielsen. — The Daily Beast

Brangelina v News of the World Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie today began a privacy action against the News of the World over a story that alleged the couple were separating…Pitt and Jolie commenced action through Schillings in the high court in London today against News Group Newspapers, the News International subsidiary that publishes the News of the World. — The Guardian