Friday's Daily Brief

2009-04-10

The Daily Brief

Arianna Huffington: The Debate Over Online News: It's the Consumer, Stupid

Arianna Huffington: The discussion about the distribution of content on the web heated up this week when AP announced plans to "launch an industry initiative" designed "to protect news content" online. The conversation continued last night when Charlie Rose invited me to discuss the issue with Tom Curley, AP's president and CEO. For me, the key question is whether those of us working in the media (old and new) embrace and adapt to the radical changes brought about by the Internet or pretend that we can somehow hop into a journalistic Way Back Machine and return to a past that no longer exists. Watching media execs talk about building walled gardens around content reminds me of watching Detroit execs ten years ago spend billions lobbying the government for fuel efficiency loopholes and trying to convince consumers that gas-guzzling SUVs were the cars of the future. Click here to read more.

Jacob Heilbrunn: Should President Obama Go to Church?

President Obama's aides are roaming across Washington, DC on one of their most politically fraught missions.

Jeremy Scahill: Gen. Petraeus Implements Military Surge Against Four Somali Pirates in a Lifeboat

The most powerful Navy in the world remains in a standoff with four pirates in a small boat. So threatening to US national security are these pirates, Gen. Petraeus is now running the operation.

Matthew DeBord: The Masters: Bring Back the Back Nine, Cut the Rest

If viewers have access to the many, many hours that constitute the first 63 holes, what's the point of a scintillating Sunday back-nine if you've already seen the players grind their way around the long and challenging course three times?

Henry Blodget: Obama Really Wall Street CEO In Chief?

So far, I've laid the Obama administration's decision to keep propping up failed banks at Tim Geithner's feet. Obama, meanwhile, has so far avoided blame. I wonder how long that will last.

Steve Clemons: America's Cuba Policy is the "Edsel" of the US Foreign Policy Portfolio

Obama's point guy on the upcoming Summit of the Americas offered me the neocon-friendly, ideologically vapid answer to my question on Cuba. Does Obama read the brief on Cuba?

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