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Gunmen Storm Mexico Newspaper Office (San Antonio Express-News)
Masked men barged into the offices of Nuevo Laredo's major daily newspaper, El Mañana, and opened fire with assault rifles and a grenade Monday night, critically injuring one reporter. Five bullets struck Jaime Orozco Tey, a veteran reporter.

NYT's Kristof Starts Pledge Drive to Send Bill O'Reilly to Darfur (E&P)
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof resumed his exchange with TV/radio talkster Bill O'Reilly today, asking readers to contribute to a fund to send O'Reilly to Darfur.

Is Time Warner Necessary? (Vanity Fair)
Michael Wolff: Trapped in an $80 billion bubble of dysfunction, Time Warner's leadership has been blindsided by Carl Icahn's attack. The corporate raider's audaciously simple plan has exposed Time Warner's fundamental weakness: there's no logical reason for its existence.

Newspaper Biggies Discuss Teaming Up for Knight Bid (San Jose Mercury News)
MediaNews Group is discussing a possible alliance with Gannett, the nation's largest newspaper chain, to acquire Knight Ridder, the newspaper company that put itself up for sale under pressure from shareholders.

The End of Free Internet? (The Nation)
Jeff Chester: The nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open, and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online.

NBC's Williams Apologizes for Obama/Ford Mix-Up (The Hill)
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams said he wrote Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Rep. Harold Ford Jr. (D-Tenn.) letters of apology last week after he confused the two men at the State of the Union address. [Second item.]

—David S. Hirschman