The Breakfast Meeting: Special Olympic Anger Edition

By THE EDITORS

NBC and Twitter have relented and rescinded the order to suspend the account of Guy Adams, the journalist for The Independent who criticized the network's Olympic coverage and broadcast the e-mail address of NBC's Olympic chief. (“Did I miss much while I was away?” he immediately tweeted.) Twitter also admitted that an executive there had alerted NBC, Twitter's business partner in games coverage. Both companies experienced a backlash on â€" where else? â€" Twitter.

The network is looking into ways to avoid giving away the results of the competition before the events are shown on television, as it did with an on-air promo that told viewers about Missy Franklin's gold in the 100-meter backstroke. In an interview with Sports Business Daily, the chairman of NBC Sports, Mark Lazarus, defended the network's decision to show marquee events on tape delay on television. “This is a business,” he said.

Comcast reported incr eased earnings of 32 percent, largely on new broadband consumers and a drop in the number of customers giving up cable. But NBC Universal remains a trouble spot for the company, the largest cable provider in the country.

The Daily, News Corporation's experimental tablet magazine, is laying off about a third of its 170 member staff. The Daily is the third highest-grossing app and is known to be a particular favorite of Rupert Murdoch, but it's had trouble attracting ad dollars. The editor, Jesse Angelo, announced that the magazine would no longer produce a separate opinion section and that its original sports content would be largely replaced by features from Fox Sports.

Gore Vidal, the novelist, memoirist, Hollywood screenwriter, political candidate, man of letters, acerbic wit and sparring partner of Norman Mailer, William F. Buckley and many, many others, has died at the age of 86. In The New York Times's obituary, Charles McGrath writes that “Mr. Vidal was, at the end of his life, an Augustan figure who believed himself to be the last of a breed, and he was probably right.”