– Newsweek continues its victory lap around the toilet bowl.
– Female Mexican journalists killed because of their gender.
– You can’t call Ed Schultz’s ideology “extreme liberalism.” It’s an insult to classical liberalism. A “raging socialist on steroids” is more appropriate.
– Online video finally chipping away at broadcast TV:
A quarter of people in countries with access to high-speed broadband are streaming video to their TV, although more than 80 percent still watch broadcast television as well. But that’s slowly beginning to change: According to survey data from Ericsson, there’s been a slight decrease from 2010 to 2011 in the percentage of folks watching broadcast TV, while Internet-enabled options, such as long-form streaming sites like Netflix, short-form videos aggregators like YouTube and downloaded content are all on the rise.
– Huffington vs Arrington over at AOL:
Arianna Huffington, the boss of all media at AOL Huffington post–including TechCrunch–was not informed of TechCrunch editor Mike Arrington’s plans to launch a venture capital fund with AOL’s money until yesterday, a source familiar with the situation tells us.
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong knew and didn’t tell her. Obviously, Arrington knew and didn’t tell her.
When she did find out, Huffington got pretty angry.
Originally, Arrington was going to remain the editor of TechCrunch even while operating the fund.
Huffington quickly kiboshed that plan and then booted Arrington out of her media empire altogether.
– Wikileaks publishes full cache of unredacted cables.