• New York Times, Thursday, March 10, 2011 3:30 PM

Interesting piece from New York Times executive editor Bill Keller on the HuffPo-AOL deal -- as well as "our fascination with capital-M Media," which he describes as "so disengaged from what really matters."

Here's Keller amusingly describing Alexandra Huffington's "instinctive genius for aggregation": "I once sat beside her on a panel in Los Angeles (on - what else? - The Future of Journalism). I had come prepared with a couple of memorized riffs on media topics, which I duly presented. Afterward we sat down for a joint interview with a local reporter. A moment later I heard one of my riffs issuing verbatim from the mouth of Ms. Huffington. I felt so . . . aggregated."

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