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The Complete List Of Golden Globes Winners And Other Assorted Tragedies (Gawker)
Sunday night, the winners of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Golden Globes were as obvious as they could possibly be. It was a collection of wacky cable television winners and all the expected Oscar favorites and big splashy celebrities from the movie world. And Ricky Gervais was so scary as the host. Here are all the victors. TheWrap.com / The Odds: In an odd year, the Golden Globes had the chance to shake things up and throw momentum in unusual places. Instead, they gave us business as usual, Hollywood Foreign Press Association-style. Most of the usual suspects won, nobody built much of a head of steam, and the handful of unusual choices can be all-too-easily traced to the organization's typical tendencies and biases. TheWrap.com: Gervais gave the Golden Globes nothing to complain about Sunday night -- except, perhaps, for a sedate show. THR / The Race: From his opening monologue to his closing lines, here were 10 of the host's most memorable barbs. THR / The Race: THR picks the moments that made us laugh, cringe, and applaud during this year's ceremony. B&C: The premium cable networks dominated the TV winners at the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards, with HBO, Starz, and Showtime grabbing multiple wins during the telecast. Multichannel News: Cable premium channels continued their domination of Sunday's 2012 Golden Globe Awards as Showtime's Homeland won for best drama series, while Kelsey Grammer claimed the best actor in a drama series award for his role in Starz's Boss. Multichannel News: Actor Idris Elba was the surprise Golden Globe winner for best actor in a miniseries or motion picture made for television category. Mediaite: Toward the end of the show, Gervais made a joke about how racist fellow Brit Colin Firth apparently was. Hearing the word "racist," someone in the control room instantly thought it was a good idea to cut to the cast of The Help, one of the most predominantly African-American casts of the year. Whoops.

One Less Candidate For Monday Night's Fox News Debate (TVNewser)
The news that Jon Huntsman would be dropping out of the GOP race for president came just as Huntsman was about to take the stage in a GOP forum in South Carolina, which was taped Saturday. NYT / Media Decoder: At the next Republican presidential primary debate Monday night, Fox News will be measuring viewers' reactions to each answer on Twitter, the social website that acts as an online water cooler during big television events. Twitter Blog: As the primaries roll on, so do the political conversations on Twitter. If you want to be the first to hear what's happening on the campaign trail as it unfolds in real time, here's a list of accounts we suggest you follow to get in the middle of the action.

A TV Debate On Antipiracy (NYT / Media Decoder)
A pair of bills that would strengthen antipiracy laws -- and that could essentially censor the Internet, according to heavyweights like Google -- has received scant coverage from the major television networks. The parent companies of the TV networks are among the chief supporters of the bills, having lobbied Congress to write them in the first place.

Google Calls Murdoch's Piracy Allegations 'Nonsense' (CNET / Media Maverick)
News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch is talking nonsense, according to Google. Murdoch, a Twitter user for only the past several weeks, used the service to fire a barrage of accusations Saturday night against President Barack Obama and Google. Business Insider / Silicon Alley Insider: We thought Murdoch's tweets in support of SOPA would stir some reactions from the tech community. And they have.

HuffPost's Twitter Account Hacked (CNET)
The Huffington Post's Twitter account was hacked Sunday morning by someone who replaced the news site's usual story teases with racist and homophobic messages. NY Observer: In a rapid-fire series of tweets containing grandiloquent soliloquies like "hello gay boys" and "lol wes is a gay boy," a hacker who claimed the nom de hack "cloverfdch" locked the feed down tight, amusing and puzzling HuffPost's 1.5 million or so followers for several minutes until he was locked out again and HuffPost resumed tweeting links to its posts as if nothing had happened.

Apocalypse Later For TV Marketplace (Adweek)
While many network advertising sales executives undoubtedly were relieved to watch 2011 recede in the rearview mirror, the television market's bumpy road is showing signs of smoothing out.

The Illusion Of Precision: The Future Of Media Measurement (AdAge)
With all the data we have these days, we should be finding answers to basic advertising questions -- but we're not.

Subrata De Named EP Of Andrea Mitchell Reports (TVNewser)
Subrata De, a senior producer on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, has been named executive producer of MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports.

Hulu Unveils Political Campaign Series, Documentary Shows From Spurlock And Linklater (TheWrap.com / Report From The TCA)
For the first time in its history, Hulu took the stage at the Television Critics' Association Sunday to unveil a slate of programming designed to make it a bona fide content maker. AdAge / Digital: Hulu has bought its first original scripted series, a political mockumentary called Battleground, and added its second original unscripted series as the biggest players in online video fight for position with viewers and advertisers. B&C: Battleground will be in the faux workplace documentary-style, exploring the behind-the-scenes chaos of campaign workers and volunteers in a Wisconsin state Senate race. LA Times / Company Town: Fox television originally bought the script but passed on making the show. CNET: Hulu will follow that up with 10 new episodes of A Day in the Life, a documentary series about famous people that returns in March, and a six-part travelogue from Richard Linklater, director of Dazed and Confused. Wired / Epicenter: While it's definitely too soon to get all doomsday-ish about cable (2011's numbers showed that cable is actually doing just fine), Hulu CEO Jason Kilar summed up in a blog post the company's year. The results were telling: positive for Hulu, and representative, at least partially, of the changes in the industry.

People Editor Explains How The Magazine Determined Where Casey Anthony Is Living (Mediaite)
Tatsha Robertson, a senior editor at People magazine, appeared on CNN's Early Start Monday morning to explain how a reporter for the magazine, Steve Helling, came to the conclusion that Casey Anthony was living alone in Port St. Lucie, Fla.

Fox News Pundit On Pat Buchanan: MSNBC Almost A 'Communist Channel' (HuffPost)
A Fox News host and contributor tore into MSNBC Saturday for its treatment of controversial pundit Pat Buchanan.

Enquirer Designs An App For Gossip (NYT)
American Media is hoping that enquiring minds will embrace a digital version of its 70-year-old supermarket tabloid, The National Enquirer.

Embracing Cable's Concept Of Opening Night (NYT)
Broadcast network executives departing the informal talks known as the Television Critics press tour last week pretty much agreed on one thing: It is time to start acting more like cable networks.

Big, Bigger, Biggest. (Newsweek)
Once-scrappy network ESPN has swelled to massive size. But as the highest-priced network on cable TV, is the sports behemoth too big for its own good?

Hoy Los Angeles Launches New Website (FishbowlLA)
The Los Angeles Times Media Group announced the launch of Spanish-language website Hoylosangeles.com. The site will be the online home of LATMG's weekend paper, Hoy Los Angeles, and will also post some translated stories from the LA Times.