Media and Entertainment

• Murdochs defy parliament in phone hack inquiry
  AP (July 14, 2011)
  LONDON (AP) - Media titan Rupert Murdoch and his son James defied the British Parliament Thursday and refused to appear next week before a committee investigating phone hacking and bribery by employees of their newspapers.
   
  
• Behind the increase: Why Netflix is raising prices
  AP (July 14, 2011)
  NEW YORK (AP) - Why is Netflix raising its prices? In part, because the company miscalculated how many people still want to receive DVDs by mail each month, a more expensive service to provide compared to its streamed Internet videos.
   
  
• Digital music service Spotify launches in US
  AP (July 14, 2011)
  WASHINGTON (AP) - Spotify, a digital music service already popular in Europe, is now available in the United States.
   
  
• Ex-News of the World editor held in hacking probe
  AP (July 14, 2011)
  LONDON (AP) - British media say a 60-year-old man arrested on suspicion of phone hacking is Neil Wallis, the former executive editor of the defunct tabloid News of the World.
   
  
• Gallup: Slight uptick in trust in newspapers, TV
  AP (July 05, 2011)
  WASHINGTON (AP) - Public confidence in newspaper and television news has picked up slightly in recent years but still lags behind levels of trust from two decades ago, a Gallup poll shows.
   
  
• McClatchy says revenue decline easing, stock up
  AP (June 21, 2011)
  NEW YORK (AP) - Newspaper publisher McClatchy says its revenue decline is easing in the second quarter.