On the first Media Talk USA of 2010, Jeff Jarvis is joined in the studio by Adam Davidson from NPR and the Wall Street Journal's Julia Angwin.
Up for discussion this month is Google's annoncement that it is pulling out of China. Is this merely sabre-rattling, or will the internet giant really triumph in its battle with Beijing?
Plus, as the American TV networks play "personality poker" with the likes of Jay Jeno, Simon Cowell and, er, Sarah Palin, the panel ask: are tent-pole celebrities (on their enormous salaries) an anachronism in the age of Hulu?
Finally, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has cut off aggregator NewsNow from all its websites – but isn't the internet built on the right to link?
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